Accessing Web Services using LC

[garyth123]

Please excuse my lack of knowledge of LC and other technical issues.

I have a need to use LC to read/write to databases using SOAP WebService methods. So I've been looking at the lesson accessing-web-services-using-livecode

However when I attempt to access / run the php file which creates the xml I get an error saying "Failed to read preferences file at location: ". If I try to run the php script from the browser (localhost:8081/livecode/samplexml1.php) I get an "Unable to connect" error. I'm using my Ubuntu notebook as my web server, and can see the phpinfo page.

I realise that my problem here is not a LC issue as such but would be very grateful if anyone get help get round this particular problem.

Thanks in advance.

[Mark]

Hi,

What do you use to generate the XML exactly?

Kind regards,

Mark

[garyth123]

The code that is in the LC stack. Somehow I'm not allowed to post links but it is at
lessons runrev com
/s/lessons/m/4070/l/40932-accessing-web-services-using-livecode

[Mark]

Hi,

Have you changed the URL in the code to whatever is correct for your server? I had to change

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http://127.0.0.1:8081/livecode/samplexml1.php

into

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http://localhost/rr-webservice/index.php

It looks like your tPreferencesFile variable is empty. It needs to contain a valid URL pointing to the PHP file on your server. This URL won't be the same as mine.

Kind regards,

Mark