Question

I am developing Smoking counter and I need to send all the smoking record (about the time user smoking) to database on the server. The server database is MySQL database. I knew that I must have send data to PHP page/script, and this page/script will run on the data to insert record to database.

I would like to know: is there another way to update database, because I don’t have knowledge about PHP. I used to work on java and c/c++/objective-c. If you know another way to do this task, please let me know.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you already know Java, C and C++, then you should be able to learn how to write your php script really quickly, just google a tutorial.

While could run a Java server using a servlet to insert the data, PHP is far easier to deploy, and you should only need to write a few lines of code.

I you do use PHP though one thing to remember when inserting to your database is to run all your parameters to add through mysql_real_escape_string

Edit:
To give an example, this script when configured would insert a name and location to a database:

<?php
$link = mysql_connect("hostname", "username", "password");
mysql_select_db("databasename");
$location = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['location']);
$person = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['person']);
mysql_query("INSERT INTO mytable(location, person) VALUES('{$location}', '{$person}')");
mysql_close($link);
?>