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I'm experienced with PHP, JavaScript and a lot of other scripting languages, but I don't have a lot of experience with Java or Android. I'm looking for a way to send POST data to a PHP script and display the result.




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  1. Tips For AllApril 3, 2012 at 7:18 AM

    Http Client from Apache Commons is the way to go. It is already included in android. Here's a simple example of how to do HTTP Post using it.

    public void postData() {
    // Create a new HttpClient and Post Header
    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://www.yoursite.com/script.php");

    try {
    // Add your data
    List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("id", "12345"));
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("stringdata", "Hi"));
    httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

    // Execute HTTP Post Request
    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    } catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    }
    }

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  2. Tips For AllApril 3, 2012 at 7:18 AM

    Better use Apache Commons HttpClient, that is also included in android already.
    Have a look at
    http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/package-summary.html
    for general api info.

    Plenty of examples are provided here:
    http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/examples.html

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  3. Tips For AllApril 3, 2012 at 7:18 AM

    You can use URLConnection with setDoOutput(true), getOutputStream() (for sending data), and getInputStream() (for receiving). Sun has an example for exactly this.

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  4. Tips For AllApril 3, 2012 at 7:18 AM

    Click this link for Exact Example

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