upload dialog entries into an online log ?

Dorian (MJT support) · Post by **Dorian (MJT support)** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:55 am

Hi guys,

Does anyone have any ideas regarding how I can safely allow my compiled dialog.exe form to submit the results to one single online logfile for me to download every day?

It would be a pretty easy feat to get the form results emailed to me, but how do i go about entering this into any kind of online database/logfile?

This prompts another question. If the file is to be somehow uploaded and appended, presumably it would need a username and password to be included, so how easy would it be for a cracker to reverse engineer my compiled exe and reveal the username and password?

Any suggestions to get me started in the right direction would be very much appreciated.

Dorian (MJT support) · Post by **Dorian (MJT support)** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:07 am

Just after hitting send I thought of a possible solution. Would using httprequest/post in combination with a log-keeping web form be the best solution?

This would actually mesh quite nicely with the system I already have in place, but if anyone can think of a superior way I'd be very interested to hear it.

I wonder if I can make it talk to an online MySQL database?

support · Post by **support** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:19 am

Yes, use HTTPRequest. Or better yet, yes you can talk directly to an online MySQL database using the MyODBC drivers available at mysql.com

Dorian (MJT support) · Post by **Dorian (MJT support)** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:46 pm

support wrote:you can talk directly to an online MySQL database

That's excellent, thanks guys. The http request will work perfectly for this project, and I'll need to use MySQL for the next one as it will be writing to an existing MySQL database.

Thanks for your help.