As part of my component I have a custom API that acts as a webhook for an external system. This system sends POST data to the webhook which reads it and takes action

However for simplicity, I would really like to be able to utilise some of the Joomla functionlity i.e

JMailer (rather than having to call standalone phpmailer)
Jtext (so I can reuse language constants with he core mailing system)

and of course last but not least

JCook components, so I can use the easy method of calling a model and updating / adding a record

What headers do I need to add on my standalone page (if at all possible) to able to use the above. I have considered just creating a menu item into full Joomla and building the webhook stuff into that, but its a bit messy and would prefer a cleaner standalong solution like I have currnetly underway

Got it

Glad to be of service

This might be helpfu also or for future codingl: docs.joomla.org/How_to_create_a_stand-al...the_Joomla!_Platform

Great share

I always knew the Joomla! platform had been designed to allow external sites to use parts of it, but just never tried. Now I have a great little standalone API that is using the mailer, jfactory and the language files of one of my components easily. Impressive tech which excites me for future mobile RESTful api.