Question

I have a MySQL Database on my server. I need my android app to two things.

1. Android App needs to send 3 different integers. The MySQL database already has these data types set in them. I’m guessing I need to write a PHP script and basically have Android execute it, correct?

2. Then the Database needs to send a float and an integer back to the Android app. Once again, I’m guessing this needs a PHP script executed by Android as well.

I am not familiar with using PHP and remote databases within Android, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

This is really simple if you’re just doing an INSERT.

In the Android application set it up like this:

try{
            HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://example.com/insert.php?i="+cUser.getUserId());
            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

    }catch(Exception e){
            Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
    }

where cUser.getUserId() is the integer you want to pass to insert.php as the $_GET[‘i’] variable.