HTTP (Web Access)

[digiraver]

Me again ;)  What exactly is meant by 'web access'.  The closest description I could find is that Play Basic can 'access web sites' I believe but couldn't really find out how much this access entailed.  Can it go so far as to run a php page and then act upon a result of say some database information or what exactly?  Sorry if this is a vague question...I can supply more info if needed...

Thank you ;)

[Adaz]

Me again ;)  What exactly is meant by 'web access'.  The closest description I could find is that Play Basic can 'access web sites' I believe but couldn't really find out how much this access entailed.

You can download a web page with PB, then do what you want with it :) There is a HttpLib (in the Slib folder) with a lot of functions written by empty.
Download the newest HttpLib from http://www.underwaredesign.com/forums/index.php?topic=1841.0, then try the samples in \PlayBasic\Projects\Examples\Http.

Can it go so far as to run a php page and then act upon a result of say some database information or what exactly?  Sorry if this is a vague question...I can supply more info if needed...

Php code never runs on your machine, it runs always on server side! You see only the results (the generated html) of that code. So you can call a normal php page with PB, then download the results in html form, then display it some way or extract and use only the needed contents from it.

[digiraver]

Can I safely assume then that PlayBasic 'variables' might be able to be sent as a 'parameter' of a URL?

Thanks again for your time...  ;)

[Adaz]

Can I safely assume then that PlayBasic 'variables' might be able to be sent as a 'parameter' of a URL?

Why not? :)