One simple solution is you can pass all of your input in a url to your php script then the Php script does all the DB work.

I too have the same question. Is it true that there is no way (even using the processing.net.* library) to POST or GET to a remote server? HTTP POST GET and PUT are fundamental to server interaction so there must be a simple way to do this in Processing. If not, what am I missing? Why is this so difficult and what is processing.net.* for of not sending HTTP commands? I must say, I have looked for code samples showing HTTP PUT in Processing and they don't seem to exist...

 Thanks   Al (Santa Clara)

stopfocus, passing data through the URL isn't a POST but a GET operation.
Maybe it is enough for the needs of slushe.
Otherwise, in the save to web --- image export thread, I show the DataUpload.java class which does a POST request. It is to upload data, but if you know the syntax of POST, you can use it for other tasks.

Thanks!
 I am somewhat new to Processing and don't know Java. So... Do I need to load Java libraries into Processing to do an HTML POST? I do appreciate the CRUD aspects of HTML re RESTful ideals.

 I need a little context to the proposed solution. Is there a way to  POST PUT to a remote server using Processing without some form of Java inclusion?   I have used the processing.net.* library to GET and it works but POST and PUT are illusive. Here is a GET code segment (below) so I would expect (perhaps foolishly) for a POST and PUT equivalent. 

Include processing.net.*

c = new Client(this, "http://www.theavitbook.com", 80); // Connect to server on port 80
  c.write("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n"); // Use the HTTP "GET" command to ask for a Web page
  c.write("Host: www.myserver.com\n\n"); //   who I am

   Al

Update -- correction -- previous post should have used HTTP not HTML in the comments -- missed this when typing.

 Al

I just assumed, maybe incorrectly that he was trying to send simple text data. Unless you are sending data or you are going to exceed the size limit of get there is no reason to use post.

Since Processing is parsed into Java, you can just use this:

Thanks Jack and "stopfocus",
 I will try your suggested example. I am familiar with Processing not Java but I will experiment with your code. I appreciate the efforts!

  Al

Thanks jack! That's perfect. 

Processing is based on Java: basically when you write a Processing sketch, you are writing a Java program with just some minor syntactic adjustments.
You can drop a .java file in a sketch, it will become a tab in the PDE, like the other .pde files.

I have solved the problem I had before, and the issue was in HttpParams declaration. Somehow, this did not work. A version that worked for me:

Hey,

the script works fine but I have a little problem with the server response. Could anybody say how I can drop the result from console to the compiled sketch as text or manipulate the result? I dont now which column in the code is responsible for the result. In my example is this json object the result: "{"text": "processing"} until then perfect but I'm afraid that i can't edit the content of the json object or use it for an visualization...

THX phi.lho, i will try this variant

1. import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
   import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
   import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
   import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
   //import org.json.*;
   
     String url = "http://www.meineurl.de";
   
     try
     {
       DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
   
       HttpPost         
       httpPost   = new HttpPost( url );
       List nameValuePairs = new ArrayList(1); 
       nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("text", "processing"));
      
       httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
   
       //println( "executing request: " + httpPost.getRequestLine() );
       HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute( httpPost );
       HttpEntity   entity   = response.getEntity();
   
       println("----------------------------------------");
       println( response.getStatusLine() );
       println("----------------------------------------");
   
       if( entity != null ) entity.writeTo( System.out );
       if( entity != null ) entity.consumeContent();
   
       // When HttpClient instance is no longer needed,
       // shut down the connection manager to ensure
       // immediate deallocation of all system resources
       httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();      
   
     } catch( Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace(); }
   

I don't know the Apache library, but I see the line:
entity.writeTo( System.out );
System.out outputs to the console. You can replace it probably with any OutputStream. I would use a ByteArrayOutputStream, then use toString() on it, after the writing.