Hi,

I'm not into games ( yet ).
I would like to learn how to use Lua to setup a form
to query for some information on a website.

Preferrably the website would be running .Net with Sql Server
( use of a Web Service which returns XML )
Is this going to use the Sockets thingy ? If so any examples ?

Thanks, LA Guy

@pceinc88,
you do not require *socket thingy* using the GET, POST and PUT, you can get/set data with website using the normal HTTP or REST protocols. Look up what you are wanting but for Lua than CoronaSDK, you will find plenty of examples.

cheers,

?:)

You can create a .net code to return an xml file
the output can be somethign like this
http://technowand.com/xml/clients.xml

now you can parse this XML file to get the data
I used something like this

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function main()
 
  -- XMLParser.lua file should be in the folder
  local parser = require( "XMLParser" )
 
  -- calling function to parse XML file
  -- returns a lua table
  --from a local xml file
  --local tab1 = parser.ParseXmlFile("result.xml")
 
  -- calling function to parse XML from website
  local tab1 = parser.getXMLData("http://technowand.com/xml/clients.xml")
 
  for i=1,3,1 do        
    for j=1,5,1 do      
      print(tab1[i][j])
    end 
  end
 
 
end
 
main()