Get Data from a web address

Targets Windows
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Hey there. I have a PHP file, connected to a MySQL database, at localhost. When the URL localhost/?link=me is accessed, it passes a SQL query and, in turn, receives the value 1 and echoes it on the page.
My question is the following:
How do I take that information, now sitting on localhost/?link=me, and have Xojo write it down in a text label?
Thanks for any help
Tim

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Timothy,

You can use the URLConnection class using the content received event. Then parse and use the received response and then populate your label.

https://documentation.xojo.com/api/networking/urlconnection.html

You also have several example projects for URLConnection within the Xojo IDE

Examples/Communication/Internet/URLConnection/FileDownloader

Examples/Communication/Internet/URLConnection/URLConnectionGET

Hth

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Thanks for the help, Mike!
This method worked, and the demo project was a great help.

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That is great news! Could you please mark this as the correct answer so that this will be clear for future searches by other Xojo users?

Thanks!
Mike

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