Question

I am a beginner at both iPhone programming and SQL, yet I have basic knowledge of them.

I am planning to do an application that would plot a graph from data taken from a database of the server of my company. I know how to plot, I know how to extract data from an sql table, but what I don’t know is how to access the server.

So do I have to go through some kind of oracle-like application ?

This may seem like a very stupid question because it might not even be possible but any answer will be appreciated.

Thanks !

Answer 1

Go through a web service for example a PHP page that returns JSON (or XML, but JSON is easier to parse).

I can highly recommend this tutorial

Once you have your web service, you can use NSURLRequest/NSURLConnection to download the data and use a JSON framework to parse it. Or, if you’re using XML you can use NSXMLParser.

See this apple code for more info on downloading using NSURLConnection.