I'm glad this question has come up. I've been wondering why people embed database access in LabVIEW programs when they can do it in php and make a simple call to execute the php script on the server.
In my application I need to for example look up file names on the server and download them to the local PC. The images are of a patient's surgical wound. The PC uses cURL.exe to send a request to execute GetImageFile.php with parameters username. The php program does its MySQL thing and comes up with a list of files, which can be downloaded in another call to cURL.exe.
Thanks for the tip. I had looked at several solutions to this problem and all looked "too clever by half". This is simple. And since I'll be writing php coded pages for database access and report generation anyway, I won't be duplicating work. My existing php code will still work.
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QUOTE(jbrohan @ May 4 2007, 05:36 AM)
Thanks for the tip. I had looked at several solutions to this problem and all looked "too clever by half". This is simple. And since I'll be writing php coded pages for database access and report generation anyway, I won't be duplicating work. My existing php code will still work.