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Posted by Bruce Röttgers
Bruce Röttgers
18,211 Points

How to connect iOS App to database?

Hey there,

I'm working on a timetable app for my own school. To get it run I need to know how to connect the app to my timetable database. I haven't found courses regarding this topic here and on Google, I just found a few that were way to complex.

I'd be very thankful for some references to not very difficult tutorials or for a reference to a course here on treehouse.

Have a great day,

Bruce.

1 Answer

Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points

Hi, check out this blog post: http://codewithchris.com/iphone-app-connect-to-mysql-database/

Hope it helps :)

Bruce Röttgers
Bruce Röttgers
18,211 Points

Thanks!

Bruce Röttgers
Bruce Röttgers
18,211 Points

Is there an updated tutorial?

It's great, but the code seems to be written in Swift 2 and causes a ton of errors and if I try to fix them it does even more errors.

Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points

@Bruce Röttgers I can try to find one, however, working through the code inconsistencies will actually help you learn and retain the information better. You can read the changes from Swift 2 to 3 here: https://swift.org/migration-guide/

They are mostly class naming changes, e.g ErrorType is now Error, these can be referenced from apples developer suite page: https://developer.apple.com

Otherwise, this is a valuable subject, and I think its quite likely Treehouse will add a course sometime in the near future. :)

Bruce Röttgers
Bruce Röttgers
18,211 Points

Can you help me out here?

    var session: URLSession!

    let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default

    session = URLSession(session: configuration, dataTask: self, didReceiveData: nil)

It says as error: "Can't convert value of type URLSessionConfiguration to expected argument type URLSession" I first tried to solve this by changing session to type URLSessionConfiguration, but it needs to be URLSession for other things later in code