HTTP post to php script

robgreensmith · 03-11-2009, 12:35 PM

I need to setup a http post from my app to a php script on a localhost server ie http://localhost/test2.php?param1=123

how can i do this?

the php script access a local database and echo's the results..
Is it possible to store these echo'd results in a NSMutableData and if so how can i do this??

Any help appreciated!

Rob

RickMaddy · 03-11-2009, 12:48 PM

Search here and/or Google. You will find plenty of code examples for performing HTTP form posts.

Some of the classes involved are NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest.

But if your URL is just as you posted then this is not a HTTP POST but an HTTP GET. That is much easier.

Just use the above classes passing in your URL with whatever query parameters you need. The response will contain whatever is sent back (text or HTML). You can then parse that data as needed.

robgreensmith · 03-11-2009, 02:31 PM

Has anybody got any examples or links to examples of http get??

Cant find much on google on it?

Thanks
Rob

**chewbocka** · 03-11-2009, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robgreensmith

Has anybody got any examples or links to examples of http get??

I'm using something like this for get requests.

Code:

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableRequest alloc] initWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString: url]];
[request setHTTPMethod: @"GET"];

NSData *response = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: request returningResponse: nil error: nil];
NSString *stringResponse = [[NSString alloc] initWithData: response encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];

robgreensmith · 03-12-2009, 06:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chewbocka

I'm using something like this for get requests.

Code:

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableRequest alloc] initWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString: url]];
[request setHTTPMethod: @"GET"];

NSData *response = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: request returningResponse: nil error: nil];
NSString *stringResponse = [[NSString alloc] initWithData: response encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];

Worked perfectly thanks a million!!!