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richmond62 wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:29 pm Why not have the results posted in a text file to your email address?

MarBor wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:06 pm Thanks a lot!
I managed to send the results in an email to myself with this from the app run in the LC IDE. I will try now from the HTML5 app.
It's maybe not optimal that an email client needs to be opened so that the participant needs to click on "send", though.
I also know some people who don't use/configure their email account in client software.
But this solution will definitely be a sufficient one in case I don't manage to get this post to PHP server solution to work.

   local tForm, tError, tUrl, tName, tMessage, tFile
   put empty into tForm
   put "http://myserver/specificdirectory/phpfile" into tUrl
   put "someone" into tName    -- not necessary ?
   put "something" into tMessage     -- not necessary ?
   put "<file>" & fname & "/myFile[dot]txt" into tFile     -- the file I want to send (fname - the file directory - was defined before in my script)
   put libURLMultipartFormData \
         (tForm, "name", tName, "message", tMessage, "file", tFile) \
         into tError
   if tError is not empty then
      answer tError
   else
      set the httpHeaders to line 1 of tForm
      post line 2 to -1 of tForm to url tUrl
      ## check the result, etc, here
      set the httpHeaders to empty
   end if
   
   

richmond62 wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:53 pm Ouch . . .
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Here's a thought . . .

Check out "mimeEncodeAsMIMEEmail" in the Documentation.

MarBor wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:46 pm Some news:

2)
I've now also tried around a bit with the POST solution. I included some code in my LC app to post the text file and I created a PHP file for the server (which is most likely the weak link, since I have no experience with server side stuff and PHP at all).

I ended up with the following code (adopted from LiveCode WIKI on keyword LibURLMultipartFormData) on my last card in the experiment:

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   local tForm, tError, tUrl, tName, tMessage, tFile
   put empty into tForm
   put "http://myserver/specificdirectory/phpfile" into tUrl
   put "someone" into tName    -- not necessary ?
   put "something" into tMessage     -- not necessary ?
   put "<file>" & fname & "/myFile[dot]txt" into tFile     -- the file I want to send (fname - the file directory - was defined before in my script)
   put libURLMultipartFormData \
         (tForm, "name", tName, "message", tMessage, "file", tFile) \
         into tError
   if tError is not empty then
      answer tError
   else
      set the httpHeaders to line 1 of tForm
      post line 2 to -1 of tForm to url tUrl
      ## check the result, etc, here
      set the httpHeaders to empty
   end if
   
   

My PHP file is supposed to store what is posted to it in some directory on the server. Due to my lack of knowledge the script probably won't do that. It could also be the case that there is some issue with writing permission on the server ...

But I first wanted to check with some working target server whether stuff is actually posted from my LC app.
So I used the great website "Post Test Server V2" and from both the app run in the LC IDE and the windows standalone my text file is really posted to the target "toilet" ( ) on Post Test Server V2.
But absolutely nothing arrives there when running the HTML5 standalone of the same app (but there's also no error message). I checked in the dictionary: libURLMultipartFormData is available for HTML5. Just as indicated in the dictionary entry I included the Internet library when generating the standalone.

Why doesn't it work in the HTML standalone?

do 'some_JavScript_code_as_string' as "Javascript"

   local tScript
   local someVariable
   
   put "some LiveCode string" into someVariable
   
   put "var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();" & cr & \
         "xhr.open(" & quote & "POST" & quote & \
         ", " & quote & "http://ptsv2.com/t/0azk7-1602160959/post" & quote & ", true);" & cr & \
         "xhr.setRequestHeader(" & quote & "Content-Type" & quote & \
         ", " & quote & "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8" & quote & ");" & cr & \
         "xhr.send('" & someVariable & "');" into tScript
   
   do tScript as "JavaScript"

MarBor wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:14 am I will keep you posted about my progress - maybe it can be of help for someone else.

thatkeith wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:34 am Thanks for following this through here as well as in your actual project! It's always helpful to read what ends up working when there's been this sort of back-and-forth. I look forward to learning of your project's full success.