Re: Biting off too much?
Re: Biting off too much?
- Subject: Re: Biting off too much?
- From: Ken Tozier <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 06:43:00 -0400
On Aug 8, 2006, at 1:27 AM, Brent Austin wrote:
I am wanting to put together a specific cocoa app. I am a beginner
but I don't think I am biting off more than I can chew. What I
would like to do is create a database app with an interface
(frontend + backend) with the frontend being a form-style input
interface with decent security. I would like to make several of
these independant front/backends but also have them interfaced
through one main initial starting point.
I'm working on something that makes heavy use of a remote database
and have found that the easiest thing to do is create Cocoa clients
that use NSMutableURLRequest, NSHTTPURLResponse and NSURLConnection
to send queries to PHP scripts on the server. The PHP scripts take
care of all the database interaction and eliminate the need to link
to any database connectivity libraries in your app. This works great
but might be a bit daunting if you have no experience with Objective-
C. If you want, I have a few Cocoa/PHP client/server classes I could
send your way to get you started.
Alternately you could go the embedded framework route and use
something like this "http://www.rtlabs.com/fwork/"; which has some
nifty InterfaceBuilder widgets that manage database communications. I
experimented with this and it works pretty well although it's getting
a bit long since the last upgrade and requires using old style
passwords when connecting to MySQL.
Ken
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