A piece of information accessible over the Internet?

Roy S

for a certain project it would be very useful to have a sort of variable that is accessible by more than one instance of the same program and from any computer (that is connected to the Internet).

It doesn't have to be much (an integer would be enough) but it should to be possible to read and edit it from anywhere. It should also be accessible 24/24 and of course free.

EDIT: If the answer was in one of those similar articles, I haven't found it (maybe my lack of concentration?). Tell me where if possible.

2 Replies

Know the answer? Post it — somebody with the same question will find it here.

theLizard16y ago
Accepted answer
Hello Roy,

There are a few ways you could achieve this, the best is to have a database with the variable , another way is to have a file that stores the values either way you would need to have some way of supplying the value from the web site as a web service to the application using some sort of code behind let it be c#, php whatever.
0
Sam Hobbs16y ago
I might not understand what you are saying, but a simple solution would be to have a web page that uses either ASP or PHP or something server-side such as that. You could write a script using C# in ASP that shows the current value froma text file and that has a text box for entering a new value. A button click could update the value in the text file. If you do that, then the program that reads and updates the data would have to b able to access the page to get the data, and to fill in the new data and click the button to update the data. I think I would not do it that way, but it could work and it would be educational to do it. My article in this web site about web site scraping would help.
0