Simplist way to retreive data from online SQL?

Hi im wanting to retrive small data (1 field) from my SQL database.

Whats the best way about doing this?
are any of thse possible?

1.Connect directly and query it with a return?
2.Connect to it using php and retrive the data and then somehow get that in to mmf (Get object maybe?)
3. Any other way im not sure of?

Thanks
Andy

If you have control over who has access to the database, then you could use the ODBC object to direct connectly and run queries. The more usual method, though, is to call PHP scripts using the Get object, and to parse their output in MMF.