Logging Device Tokens

[Charles E Buchwald]

Hi Mike,
I guess I've just never dug deep enough into databases... so they aren't quite "stupid-easy" for me, yet...

If I have readily available hosting on a LAMP server, and some basic network communication skills, can you (or anyone else here) suggest a specific LC database library to help me get to the next steps with logging and/or push notifications?

And thanks for the ideas about asynchronous methods... I wouldn't have thought about it that way.

- Charles

On 2012-08-07, at 12:32 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Databases are so stupid-easy that I am using a DB.  I've tried both an
> angry hard-core DBMS and LC connected to <censored/>.  Both work great.  If
> you are scared of/inexperienced with databases, then there are several LC
> database libraries that will make that problem go away.
> 
> I think you guys are overthinking this.  You are right that the server side
> is the hard part, but there are lots of ways to fix that:
> a) Implement an HTML server - there are several examples, and somebody
> (sorry, forgot who) has a LC Server hosting service, if you want to keep it
> all in LC.
> b) Think about it - the communication of the token and notification prefs
> does not have to be real-time i.e. this very millisecond.  That leaves you
> with thousands of possibilities.  For example, you could generate a file on
> the mobile device, encrypt it, then use one of the dropbox externals to
> upload it.  Then your "server" can pull the file/data, decrypt it, and
> update the database at your leisure, or half-a-second later, whichever
> suits you better.
> c) Pick some other asynchronous method to transmit the data from the
> handheld.
> 
> 
> HTH
> Mike


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