Re: Connecting to a MySQL database at a hosting provider

2011-01-09 Thread John Allijn
Hi Bjornke, Thanks for your reply: Last few day i've been trying to get this work, but it's more of a web-development problem than a runrev one. I still can't get it to work, because I don't know how to setup my server-side. Still working on that one :( Is there an example template for this t

Re: Connecting to a MySQL database at a hosting provider

2011-01-07 Thread Björnke von Gierke
normally you'd create a php (or other scripted server side language) interface that queries the sql backend, or makes updates to it. But instead of outputting formatted html, you simply output machine parse-able content, like a tab delimited list, or xml. Then you can access the data, just as yo

Connecting to a MySQL database at a hosting provider

2011-01-07 Thread John Allijn
Hi, I' writing an iPad app. I want the app to get some shared data from a MySQL database. I've seen scripts for that and locally they all work great. However, I've got three websites, each with a different hosting provider, and they all have installed MySQL in such a way that you can only acces