Possible to store ranking lists on server?

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• Holonist Member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  Maybe display a webpage inside the app and let html/php take over? But how would I pass the values from the lua app to the web page? (ignoring that I'm afraid that displaying web pages in Gideros will be far from easy, too...)

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• talis Guru

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  If you do not want to use a third party leaderboard service with a rest api than you have one alternative.
  Take the values by urlloader from a php web site via webservice. (in json format will be better)
  And then parse json in your program.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  July 2015

  Basically yes, create your own rest api using mysql and php on server and use url loader to load the data and submit to your server

  Likes: Holonist

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Holonist Member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  Could you tell me how to send variables with UrlLoader?
  
  I have two variables, username and password. The containing element is a Gideros object called 'form' (just so you know what "self" is referring to)

  self.formName = "user" self.formPassword = "1234"   local contents = { "name" = self.formName, "password" = self.formPassword, } contents = json.encode(contents)   local headers = ??? local send = ???   self.loader = UrlLoader.new("<a href="http://secret.com/gid/register.php"" rel="nofollow">http://secret.com/gid/register.php"</a>, UrlLoader.POST, headers, send)

  what do i put in headers and send? I checked http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/UrlLoader#UrlLoader but I don't want to send a picture.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  Hello,
  from:
  http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/UrlLoader/new#UrlLoader.new
  
  you should do something like:

  UrlLoader.new("<a href="http://secret.com/gid/register.php"" rel="nofollow">http://secret.com/gid/register.php"</a>, UrlLoader.POST, {}, "username="..self.username.."&password="..self.password)

  that is if you expect $_POST["username"] and $_POST["password"] on server

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  July 2015

  This is how i had sent data

  local data = { ["mode"] = "postUserScore", ["username"] = dataSaver.loadValue("username"), ["score"] = dataSaver.loadValue("myScore") } --Json Call local body = Json.Encode (data) local url="<a href="http://subdomain.domain.com/core/myProject/admin/webservice.php&quot" rel="nofollow">http://subdomain.domain.com/core/myProject/admin/webservice.php&quot</a>; local loader = UrlLoader.new(url,UrlLoader.POST,body) loader:addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, self.onComplete,loader) loader:addEventListener(Event.ERROR, self.onError,loader) loader:addEventListener(Event.PROGRESS, self.onProgress,loader)

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  July 2015

  btw, I almost forgot, here's some server backend:
  http://appcodingeasy.com/Mobile-Backend/Score-REST-API-on-PHP5-and-MySQL

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Holonist Member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  I'm going to look into your mobile backend.
  
  But for now, I'm getting

  RegisterForm.lua:45: unfinished string near '"<a href="http://svr05/gid/register.php" rel="nofollow">http://svr05/gid/register.php</a> &quot ;' --inserted spaces around quot, to prevent html showing it as &quot;

  (realized i dont have to hide the url from you)
  
  Why don't you get this error, where you don't close the url string?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  July 2015

  @Holonist sorry, it is not me, it is forum markup ruining it
  your url should be in "http://svr05/gid/register.php"
  no " stuff needed

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Holonist Member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  okay, that really confused me because it also happened in hgvyas123's post
  
  It worked with your example, but I'm not yet satisfied with the "style".
  When I try hgvyas123's solution, my $_POST stays completely empty...

  local content = { ["name"] = self.name.value, ["password"] = self.password.value }   content = json.encode(content)   --print(content) shows-> {"name":"somevalue","password":"somevalue"} --so it is a common json string   local loader = UrlLoader.new("<a href="http://svr05/gid/register.php"" rel="nofollow">http://svr05/gid/register.php"</a>, UrlLoader.POST, content)   --returned print_r($_POST) shows-> Array ( )   --should be, and does work with arturs version: Array ( [name] => somevalue [password] => somevalue )

  I think the json format is also how html form input is normally sent?
  Last sentence is apparently false. Does ajax convert json to a string like val1=a&val2=b&val3=c etc? I thought it just sends it as is
  
  sorry for changing my attribute names all the time

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  July 2015 Accepted Answer

  Yes json won't be processed as $_POST variables on server, you must use query string format key1=value1&key2=value2, etc
  
  in ajax, you usually provide not json string, but json object, which internally is converted to query string

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Holonist Member

  July 2015

  Ok, thanks. I think I'm good to go now

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