Hi Mike, I guess I've just never dug deep enough into databases... so they aren't quite "stupid-easy" for me, yet...
If I have readily available hosting on a LAMP server, and some basic network communication skills, can you (or anyone else here) suggest a specific LC database library to help me get to the next steps with logging and/or push notifications? And thanks for the ideas about asynchronous methods... I wouldn't have thought about it that way. - Charles On 2012-08-07, at 12:32 PM, Mike Kerner <mikeker...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > Databases are so stupid-easy that I am using a DB. I've tried both an > angry hard-core DBMS and LC connected to <censored/>. Both work great. If > you are scared of/inexperienced with databases, then there are several LC > database libraries that will make that problem go away. > > I think you guys are overthinking this. You are right that the server side > is the hard part, but there are lots of ways to fix that: > a) Implement an HTML server - there are several examples, and somebody > (sorry, forgot who) has a LC Server hosting service, if you want to keep it > all in LC. > b) Think about it - the communication of the token and notification prefs > does not have to be real-time i.e. this very millisecond. That leaves you > with thousands of possibilities. For example, you could generate a file on > the mobile device, encrypt it, then use one of the dropbox externals to > upload it. Then your "server" can pull the file/data, decrypt it, and > update the database at your leisure, or half-a-second later, whichever > suits you better. > c) Pick some other asynchronous method to transmit the data from the > handheld. > > > HTH > Mike -- Charles E. Buchwald http://buchwald.ca Vancouver / Mexico City / NYC Member of the 02 Global Network for Sustainable Design • Connect on LinkedIn • Follow me on Twitter _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
