New topic: Get data from Online Database
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=35573> Page 1 of 1 [ 5 posts ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message kdemon Post subject: Get data from Online DatabasePosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:57 pm Joined: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:01 pm Posts: 6 Location: Earth Hello REALbasic community, I've written a application that works with Hard Cover books, is it possible to access amazon DB to fetch book data via ISBN? Rather than writing a HTML data mining code? I just want to remove the middle man Amazon -> PHP -> Database is this possible? RB app -> Amazon Database _________________ iMac 24" [ 2.8x2 - 320 - 4] MacBook Pro [ 2.26 - 160 - 2] Axiotron Modbook [2.4 - 500 - 4] iPhone 3G [8] iPad [16] "Knowing is not enough we must apply, Willing is not enough we must do." ~ Bruce Lee Top timhare Post subject: Re: Get data from Online DatabasePosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:47 pm Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:21 pm Posts: 8354 Location: Portland, OR USA Not unless Amazon is going to grant you direct access to their db, which is highly unlikely. Top kdemon Post subject: Re: Get data from Online DatabasePosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:06 am Joined: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:01 pm Posts: 6 Location: Earth Rather than Database access, could I just use the PHP quire in my RB code? _________________ iMac 24" [ 2.8x2 - 320 - 4] MacBook Pro [ 2.26 - 160 - 2] Axiotron Modbook [2.4 - 500 - 4] iPhone 3G [8] iPad [16] "Knowing is not enough we must apply, Willing is not enough we must do." ~ Bruce Lee Top Greiffenberg Post subject: Re: Get data from Online DatabasePosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:53 am Joined: Wed May 16, 2007 1:50 am Posts: 219 Location: Denmark The PHP is probably just using a post command to get the data back, and that you can do with RB. _________________ http://www.tvautomator.com/ Top griffitts Post subject: Re: Get data from Online DatabasePosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:33 am Joined: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:06 pm Posts: 60 Location: Fort Worth, TX Amazon provides a lot of product info via REST or SOAP methods, which can be done in RB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Associates_Web_Service http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/ Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 5 posts ] -- Over 1500 classes with 29000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in collection. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v9.3. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml rbforumnotifier@monkeybreadsoftware.de
