Question

I am new to android development, I developed an application on android which has 3 activities, beside this I have developed a PHP website having database on MySQL. I want to make connection between android and PHP. I read alot of tutorials and make connections according to that using JSON Parser but I doesn’t work. Can It is possible to connect client to server using “Web Services“? Now the requirement of my project is that I have a form of Customer Registration from which I want to get all the data that is entered by user and that is saved in database on android. How can I do it? Is it possible that in my android application I enter data in my other activities and it will save in MySql database. Kindly help because I have tried many ways to connect and getting data but didn’t succeed Kindly guide the possible way to retrieve Task details from my PHP application.

Answer 1

Do like this.

It might help to you.

title = spinnerTitle.getSelectedItem().toString();
firstName = editTextFirstName.getText().toString();
lastName = editTextLastName.getText().toString();
address1 = editTextAddress1.getText().toString();
adddress2 = editTextAddress2.getText().toString();
city = editTextCity.getText().toString();
county = editTextCounty.getText().toString();
postCode = editTextPostCode.getText().toString();
country = spinnerCountry.getSelectedItem().toString();
dayPhone = editTextDayPhone.getText().toString();
evePhone = editTextEvePhone.getText().toString();

String xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>"
            + "<users><Title>"+title+"</Title>"
            + "<FirstName>"+firstName+"</FirstName>"
            + "<LastName>"+lastName+"</LastName>"
            + "<Address1>"+address1+"</Address1>"
            + "<Address2>"+adddress2+"</Address2>"
            + "<LoginID>"+userId+"</LoginID>"
            + "<Password>"+password+"</Password>"
            + "<County>"+county+"</County>"
            + "<City>"+city+"</City>"
            + "<Country>"+country+"</Country>"
            + "<PostCode>"+postCode+"</PostCode>"
            + "<Email>"+email+"</Email>"
            + "<DayPhone>"+dayPhone+"</DayPhone>"
            + "<EvePhone>"+evePhone+"</EvePhone>" + "</users>";

            serverCall(xml);


private void serverCall(final String xml )
{

 ConnectivityManager conMan = ( ConnectivityManager ) getSystemService( Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE );
 if( conMan.getActiveNetworkInfo() != null && conMan.getActiveNetworkInfo().isConnected() )
  {

     result = new Connection().getResponse("http://localhost/registration.php" , xml);
     if(result.equals("yes") {
       //registration done
     } else {
       //failed
     }
   }
}

Connection.java

public String getResponse(String connUrl, String xml) {
    DefaultHttpClient httpClient = null;
    try {
        MultipartEntity mp = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
        HttpPost method = new HttpPost(connUrl);
        method.setEntity(mp);
        mp.addPart("xml_request", new StringBody(xml));

        httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(method);

        if(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200){
            ByteArrayOutputStream outstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            response.getEntity().writeTo(outstream);
            return outstream.toString();
        }
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
        Log.v("APP", "Exception while create connection for getResponse from server with: " + e.getMessage());
    }
    finally {
        httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
    }
    return "";
}