I have a MySQL Database that is hosted on Host Gator. I have a desktop application that that I created that connects to the MySQL Database where I can add and retrieve data from the database. I want to develop a simple app using XAMARIN that can connect to the MySQL Database that is hosted on Host Gator. I want to be able to add data to the database and receive data from the database. I have been told that connecting straight to the database form XAMARIN is bad practice and it is recommended to create an API. How can I create an API that connects to the MySQL Database that is hosted on Host Gator? Is it possible? The app would just be used by friends and family and would not be available on any app stores.
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For a school project, we want to create an app using flutter (dart + android studio), and for it we would need a database to which we connect the app.
We have two options :
A MySQL database that's hosted on our school's servers (on a Ubuntu VM, accessible from SSH with a host address, username an password)
Another MySQL database on our school's server, but hosted directly on a server for databases (no VM). For that one, we would have more 'common' logs as the host and port.
Here are the specs of the second one :
Linux Fedora Core 18 //
Apache/2.4.4 PHP/5.4.14 //
MySQL Community Server (GPL) 5.5.31 //
phpMyAdmin 3.5.8.1 (2013-04-24)
My question is, how can I access these sql databases (ideally using the second method) from my flutter app ? I know there's a way to access local MySQL databases from flutter, but as the base will be hosted on an external server, I don't know how to correctly connect and dialogue with it.
Thanks
I faced the same problem. The mysql1 package is not well maintained. Google Dart developers do not provide built-in support of RDBMS.
There is another package to work with mysql, maybe you can take a look. mysql_client
I think that the best solution is to create a restApi on your server to manage your crud operation with the mysql database. There are a lot of tutorials on how to create a node application that lives in your server and interact with your database.
This is also a good solution because you add a layer that manage all the back-end stuff of your application.
I am working app in which i want that app should connect to Mysql rds on amazon problem is that when we use simpple db they have there api and other things to connect the db and also the domain but how to connect my sql data base tables in iOS app I have search and found that they dynamicdb also so does mysql will be under dynamic db and we will access that use dynamic db api.
You are going to want an intermediary web service via which database interactions are made.
Without this, you would need to make your database have basically no access restrictions AND embed your DB credentials in your app. This would be extremely foolish.
I have a number of apps running on Dreamhost and am creating a small app I will use locally to present reports on information stored in various databases. I do not want to host this reporting tool online so I need the app to connect to the remote MySQL server from my machine.
Codeigniter has been giving me an error all afternoon that it can't connect to the remote server, I'm guessing this is down to Dreamhosts security on remote access. I don't have a dedicated IP address so it's not ideal to set on the user account to allow external access. I've tried exploring an IP tracking solution such as No-IP, however I'm not sure if I've configured it properly, or if it'll even the service is capable of allowing my app to access the remote MySQL server when ever it needs.
Does anyone know how to get these working correctly, or am I on the right track??
I would like to create a desktop application that should work with data on a mySql server running on a remote machine.
So each user has a copy of the desktop app and edits data on the remote mySql server.
Now my problem is that the mySql server will not allow connections from other hosts.
Question, is this just the wrong way of creating the app. If not how do I give any host access to the MYsql server.
(I know I can open up for a specific IP but that won't work as the app could be running anywhere)
You should front your database on the server with a thin service layer, where you could do some validation / processing on the data, perform authentication, etc. Your client apps would then expose those methods in your service layer as web services, to which your client apps would communicate using either SOAP/XML, REST/JSON, etc. In general, it is a bad idea to expose your database directly if your application is within a LAN, and a terrible one to expose it on the internet.
I written a program to work with a MySQL database that powers my website and I have recently bought some reseller hosting however the hosting company has restricted external access on the shared server, so I was going to setup an external mySQL database on another server that can be accessed remotely, however to do this I need a PHP file on my reseller server that can connect to the local database and the remote database and sync them on request from the application via a url.
Does anyone know the best method achieve this?
Try using SQLyog's Database synchronization tool