Any suggestions on how to make a runtime check an external data source?

[Peter Bowen]

Greetings gurus,

It's my intention to develop an app that is paid for on a subscription model.

I was thinking of having a database with the paid status and having the app check paid status at startup.

Runtimes can't access external databases - any suggestions as to how this could be done would be appreciated

Edited December 8, 2007 by Guest

[Peter Bowen]

Nobody got an answer yet?

[Colin Keefe]

It's not really clear how you're handling subscription payments/records in the first place, but...

If your subscription payments and tracking are handled through a web service of some kind, you may want to explore using the Web Viewer and data scraping.

Search for GetLayoutObjectAttribute in the Web Viewer subforum. The Web Viewer works in runtimes, though I can't confirm GetLayoutObjectAttribute does. I think it's pretty likely though.

[comment]

Two things come to mind:

1. Import an externally served XML document;

2. Use the web viewer.

AFAIK, both should work in a runtime.

[Peter Bowen]

It's not really clear how you're handling subscription payments/records in the first place, but...

If your subscription payments and tracking are handled through a web service of some kind, you may want to explore using the Web Viewer and data scraping.

Search for GetLayoutObjectAttribute in the Web Viewer subforum. The Web Viewer works in runtimes, though I can't confirm GetLayoutObjectAttribute does. I think it's pretty likely though.

Thanks - That makes sense

I'm not sure how I'll be handling the subscription at the moment either - one of the recurring payment services - I have a 2checkout account?