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Icion Aspiring developer Posts: 43 Reg: Apr 14, 2013 Durban 10,980	confirm \| cancel 05/05/13 12:55 PM (11 years ago) Accessing and modifying file Hi guys, So I have a question.I need my app to open a file online. For eg, Dropbox or some other cloud storage. BuzzTouch CP would be great as well mind you. Anyway, the app opens a reads from it, alters it and saves it online again. Thinking of using an online username and point system, but don't want to go the php route, I know BT can't do this yet, so any advice where to start. Thanks, Abrie Title Comments Hi guys, So I have a question.I need my app to open a file online. For eg, Dropbox or some other cloud storage. BuzzTouch CP would be great as well mind you. Anyway, the app opens a reads from it, alters it and saves it online again. Thinking of using an online username and point system, but don't want to go the php route, I know BT can't do this yet, so any advice where to start. Thanks, Abrie

chris1 Code is Art Posts: 3862 Reg: Aug 10, 2012 Austin, TX 50,120	05/05/13 01:58 PM (11 years ago) I could custom design something like this for you. Comments I could custom design something like this for you.

Icion Aspiring developer Posts: 43 Reg: Apr 14, 2013 Durban 10,980	05/05/13 09:09 PM (11 years ago) Thanks Chris, But currently I would prefer trying to do it myself, struggled the whole of Saturday learning how to implement sqlite and learned a whole deal. 4 hours of issues because I had an extra comma in the query lol. I'm just looking for some guidance where I should be looking toward. storing a file on a website, whether its txt, csv or excel or is it possible to have it stored for free on a server like EC2 or dropbox. If I really can't get further then I might consider your proposal tho. Thanks Comments Thanks Chris, But currently I would prefer trying to do it myself, struggled the whole of Saturday learning how to implement sqlite and learned a whole deal. 4 hours of issues because I had an extra comma in the query lol. I'm just looking for some guidance where I should be looking toward. storing a file on a website, whether its txt, csv or excel or is it possible to have it stored for free on a server like EC2 or dropbox. If I really can't get further then I might consider your proposal tho. Thanks

chris1 Code is Art Posts: 3862 Reg: Aug 10, 2012 Austin, TX 50,120	05/05/13 09:44 PM (11 years ago) Well if you're just talking about how to store JSON to send to a custom screen/plugin, then you can use buzztouch's control panel. Just load it in the JSON snippet keeper plugin. Or, use a txt file and uoad it to your 'media' section of the control panel, get the link, and use it as a dataURL. Comments Well if you're just talking about how to store JSON to send to a custom screen/plugin, then you can use buzztouch's control panel. Just load it in the JSON snippet keeper plugin. Or, use a txt file and uoad it to your 'media' section of the control panel, get the link, and use it as a dataURL.

Niraj buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 2943 Reg: Jul 11, 2012 Cerritos 37,930	05/06/13 08:27 AM (11 years ago) You are doing read-write to a file within the app, then you want to save it onto a server. The choice of server will be made by which server's SDK is the easiest for you to understand and integrate into your BT app. Along with Dropbox and EC2, also take a look at Google Forms. That will allow your Users to use the Google Drive app to also do read-write of the data from non-iOS devices. -- Niraj Comments You are doing read-write to a file within the app, then you want to save it onto a server. The choice of server will be made by which server's SDK is the easiest for you to understand and integrate into your BT app. Along with Dropbox and EC2, also take a look at Google Forms. That will allow your Users to use the Google Drive app to also do read-write of the data from non-iOS devices. -- Niraj

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