GET Object Tutorial Help

[Kaanha]

This is probably a silly question as I'm sure there's a ton out there but I'm not able to find a tutorial on using the GET Object. Could someone point me to a good...video or text.

I'm attempting to send some data to a PHP script sitting on my web server and wait for the response from the page. However, I can't find anything on the GET Object, and the search term "Clickteam Fusion Get Object" pulls up everything BUT the GET Object. The only tutorial I saw was on YouTube...and it was in Russian (I speak English).

Any help would be appreciated.

[Popcorn]

The Get object is really simple. It can send and retrieve data. You can send Get Data in the url like this: http://www.myserver.com/mypage.php?n...ha&score=10000. You can also send Post Data using the Add Post Data action.

I don't speak PHP (I'm a .Net guy), so I don't know exactly what you must do to retrieve the Get and Post calls on your server, but it seems it involves using $_POST and $_GET. Google it!
Basically you create code that collects the data and use it the way you want.

To call your server from Fusion, add Post data and THEN get the url. The order is important.
To retrieve the data, create a new event and add the On Get Complete condition. You may display the data using a string, edit object or similar and setting it to Received$( "Get Object" ).

[RobinMitchell]

I dont know much about the GET object but here is some Python script that can POST data to a PHP server.

import socket

# Create a TCP/IP socket
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

# Get data to send
temperature = input("Enter Temp: ")

# Connect the socket to the port where the server is listening
ip = socket.gethostbyname('iot.mitchelectronics.co.uk')
server_address = (ip, 80)
print('connecting to {} por {}'.format(*server_address))

try:
    sock.connect(server_address)
except Exception as e: 
    print("something's wrong with %s:%d. Exception is %s" % (address, port, e))
finally:   
    dataToSend = "temperature=" + str(temperature) + "&var=20"
    POSTDATA = "POST /submit.php HTTP/1.1\r\n" + "Host: iot.mitchelectronics.co.uk\r\n" + "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" + "Content-Length: " + str(len(dataToSend)) + "\r\n" + "\r\n" + dataToSend
    sock.send(POSTDATA.encode())
    sock.close()
    print(POSTDATA)

Here is some info on GET and POST

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html


I imagine that with the GET object, you simply sent a GET request to a HTTP website (MUST contain HTTP://) and the website returns some data which you can get once the GET is done (see the attached simple example). POST data is interesting, you send a variable name and then you assign a value to that name (see the python code about).

POSTDATA = "POST /submit.php HTTP/1.1\r\n" + "Host: iot.mitchelectronics.co.uk\r\n" + "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" + "Content-Length: " + str(len(dataToSend)) + "\r\n" + "\r\n" + dataToSend

[RobinMitchell]

<?php
$Temp = "Test";
$Temp=$_POST["temperature"];
$Write="<h1>" . $Temp . "</h1>";
file_put_contents('temp.html',$Write);
?>

[RobinMitchell]

Figured it out


GET Url action does BOTH Get and POST.

To send data to a PHP script...

Start of frame >
Add POST Data (Variable Name, Variable Value as string)
GET URL

That will POST data to PHP script

Edit - I cant believe I missed @Popcorn post

[Kaanha]

The Get object is really simple. It can send and retrieve data. You can send Get Data in the url like this: http://www.myserver.com/mypage.php?n...ha&score=10000. You can also send Post Data using the Add Post Data action.

I don't speak PHP (I'm a .Net guy), so I don't know exactly what you must do to retrieve the Get and Post calls on your server, but it seems it involves using $_POST and $_GET. Google it!
Basically you create code that collects the data and use it the way you want.

To call your server from Fusion, add Post data and THEN get the url. The order is important.
To retrieve the data, create a new event and add the On Get Complete condition. You may display the data using a string, edit object or similar and setting it to Received$( "Get Object" ).

That was absolutely what I needed to know! I'm a PHP developer myself so doing the PHP is no issue at all, but I had no clue how to get started with the GET Object and trying to google that has turned out to be frustrating to say the least!

Thank you so much, this will help me significantly!

[Kaanha]

I dont know much about the GET object but here is some Python script that can POST data to a PHP server.

import socket

# Create a TCP/IP socket
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

# Get data to send
temperature = input("Enter Temp: ")

# Connect the socket to the port where the server is listening
ip = socket.gethostbyname('iot.mitchelectronics.co.uk')
server_address = (ip, 80)
print('connecting to {} por {}'.format(*server_address))

try:
    sock.connect(server_address)
except Exception as e: 
    print("something's wrong with %s:%d. Exception is %s" % (address, port, e))
finally:   
    dataToSend = "temperature=" + str(temperature) + "&var=20"
    POSTDATA = "POST /submit.php HTTP/1.1\r\n" + "Host: iot.mitchelectronics.co.uk\r\n" + "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" + "Content-Length: " + str(len(dataToSend)) + "\r\n" + "\r\n" + dataToSend
    sock.send(POSTDATA.encode())
    sock.close()
    print(POSTDATA)

Here is some info on GET and POST

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html


I imagine that with the GET object, you simply sent a GET request to a HTTP website (MUST contain HTTP://) and the website returns some data which you can get once the GET is done (see the attached simple example). POST data is interesting, you send a variable name and then you assign a value to that name (see the python code about).

POSTDATA = "POST /submit.php HTTP/1.1\r\n" + "Host: iot.mitchelectronics.co.uk\r\n" + "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" + "Content-Length: " + str(len(dataToSend)) + "\r\n" + "\r\n" + dataToSend

I wanted to thank you as well! This was a great example and definitely is appreciated!