Need help sending highscores to a webserver with httpObject

#1 Incidentally, I'm using $_GET in the php file to get the variables from the URL, should I be using $_POST in the php code?

#2 Of course the answer is probably in this thread "Using httpobject to post information to php ."
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=19441

... but I can't read it because I have a TGB indie license.

#3 I have never used the httpObject in torque before, but it seems it does indeed POST the data to the php page.

So you might want to create a dummy php page and just echo back what you get in the $_POST global. That should show you what exactly your receiving from TGB so you can adjust your script(php or torque) accordingly.

Sorry I don't have a better answer!

#4 Thanks for the suggestion Eric. I'm new to php, so I don't know the difference between $_GET and $_POST, however if I use $_POST to retrieve parameters, it no longer reads them from the browser url correctly.

Whether I use $_GET or $_POST doesn't affect what happens when I send data from TGB with a httpObject, either way if I do %obj.post(%server, %script, null, %post);

where %post is for example "name=tgb&score=100" and then echo those back I get:

Name: , Score: ^^
^^
^^ ^

and I don't know what the ^'s are - are those newlines in TGB?

#5 I got it to work!

I abandoned the HTTPObject entirely and went with the TCPObject scripts from here:

http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/32/10202

Thanks to Harold for writing that, and to Deden on the IRC channel for pointing me in the right direction. You can expect online scoreboards in all my games from now on!

#6 Useful thread.
Thanks

#7 Hey Conor, this is great news for me, as I'm looking to do the same thing right now too. As I am also new to PHP, SQL, etc. could you post any pertinent into you think might be helpful to others trying to use those scripts? For instance, there is the line from the TCPObject Torquescript you linked to:

%httpCmd="POST /gg/upload.php HTTP/1.1\nHost: www.domain.com:80\nUser-Agent: Torque/1.0 \nAccept: */*\nContent-Length: "@ strlen(%data) @"\nContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8\n\n" @ %data;

I'm guessing at a minimum I'd change "www.domain.com" to my own website's URL, but the rest is mostly greek to me... I don't know if I'd have to change any of it, or what. (Aside from what appears to be the path to a PHP script of some sort...)

Speaking of which, would you mind sharing your PHP script, for those of us (me) who know nothing about PHP? And any other tips you may have about the whole process?

#8 Er, nevermind, just saw your post to the other page, where you added more details, and posted some code too.

#9 Here's what I changed:

function TCPSubmitScore(%name, %score)
{
	%obj = new TCPObject(TCPScoreSender);
	%obj.name = %name;
	%obj.score = %score;
	%obj.connect("www.domain.com:80");
}

function TCPScoreSender::onConnected(%this)
{
       // add the correct tags for the php to read the name and score correctly
       %data = "name=" @ %this.name @ "&score=" @ %this.score;
	%data = URLEncode(%data);
		
	%httpCmd="POST /db_test/submitscore.php HTTP/1.1\nHost: www.domain.com:80\nUser-Agent: Torque/1.0 \nAccept: */*\nContent-Length: "@ strlen(%data) @"\nContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8\n\n" @ %data;

	echo(%httpCmd);
	%this.send(%httpCmd @ " \r\n");
}

In the php file I have

$name = $_POST['name'];
$score = $_POST['score'];

to catch the name and score variables sent, and I then stick these in a database. I found the tutorial on how to use php to store scores in a database here: www.clickteam.com/eng/resources/online_score/onlinescoreboards.html

The only thing you need to change is the www.domain.com to your domain, and the db_test/submitscore.php to the path to your php file.