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POUsing a mobile application to enter fields into a website?
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copied!<p>I have been given a junior project to replicate a web form that allows a user to register details to a database and then have automated e-mails sent to them.</p> <p>I have just found out that the clients database/website administrator will not allow external access to the DB and so we have hit a bit of a dead end.</p> <p>The only solution I could conceptualise is to use the pre-existing web-form as a door to the database; use the mobile app to take fields and then pass them through to a website and hit submit.</p> <p>I feel like you could create a script of some kind to enter information into their relevant fields, and then 'submit', but am not sure if this is possible from a mobile application (iOS/Android/WP8).</p> <p>Is this possible, or does anyone have any other suggestions? </p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>More details - </p> <p>There has been no code written by myself as of yet, but the situation is this: Client PAYS an external company to host their website/database. Client wants ME to create a mobile application to replicate the job of the website.</p> <p>The website is simply a form with user input for Name/Phone Number e.t.c. and a submit button. Once submitted, data is entered to the database. The client then has a THIRD system which connects to the database and fires off automatic emails (not sure who controls this).</p> <p>My app was supposed to send information to the database, where the third system would then do it's job working with the new entries gathered my app and the existing form.</p> <p>The company who provided the website and DB have stated they are not willing to give over control (originally was thinking to write a webservice which connects to the DB to INSERT) and I can understand why, in case I f*** it up and they have to spend time clearing up the mess.</p> <p>The only two options I can think of are to somehow make this scripty type thing to use the existing website as a portal to the DB, or to ask the client to ask the website administrator if they could at least write a webservice for me to connect to, since it's going to be the same INSERT command they already use. </p> <p>Thanks!</p>

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