on-rev writing to

[Thomas McGrath III]

Thanks, Sarah,

To complicate this I will be writing these files from within an LC app from different clients computers so that each clients app will create (if not present) a folder for them and then write a prefs text file, a text file and some images.

I guess I can look into an iRev file. I just didn't get very far in understanding the 'best' ways to go about that.

Thank you for looking into this for me.

-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
3mcgrath at comcast.net

On May 1, 2011, at 5:11 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Tom, you cannot write directly to a server.
> You can upload a file using your FTP login details.
> But the best solution for your case is to have an irev file on the server that you can call using http://.... And send some data to via POST or GET. Then have the irev file do the actual writing.
> 
> Not at my Mac right now, so can't give actual examples, but here is the process in untested code:
> 
> In your script on the desktop:
> 
> put "http://tom.on-rev.com/writeData.irev" into tURL
> put "data=" & urlEncode(tDataToWrite) into tPostData
> post tPostData to URL tURL
> 
> 
> In the writeData.irev file on the server:
> 
> put $_POST["data"] into tNewData
> put tNewData into URL ("file:dataFile.txt")
> 
> Images will work the same way, but you need to read in the data using binfile:, not file:
> Then base64encode the binary data before POSTing it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 01/05/2011, at 1:58 AM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I need to know how to write to on-rev from within an iOS app.
>> 
>> Is there a best practices around?
>> 
>> I need to write a folder to my account and then write a text file and some images.
>> 
>> Are there any sample stacks that show this?
>> 
>> Is it as simple as put img 1 into url "http://etc."
>> 
>> or is this something for libURL? ( I haven't used libURL before)
>> 
>> Any guidance appreciated.
>> 
>> -- Tom McGrath III
>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>> 3mcgrath at comcast.net
>> 
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