Connecting to a PHP authenticated website in Java

Question

Hi,
I have some free time this Summer so I wanted to play around with Java. I'm trying to write a program that will connect to a PHP authenticated website, use it's search and download stuff from the site.
My question is, what is the easiest way to authenticate? I saw that Java can do HTTP authentication, are there any classes in the library that will do this for me?
Thanks,
blanny

Answer 1

Ensure you have the database set up as an ODBC data source and the following should work.
Connection cconnection;
          try
               String URL = "jdbc:odbc:YouDatabaseName" ;
   String user = "UserName specified for this DB";
               String password = "PasswordYouSetForDB";
               Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
               connection = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, user, password);
   System.out.println("CONNECTED TO DATABASE");
          catch(SQLException sqlex)
               System.out.println(sqlex.toString());
          catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfex)
               System.out.println(cnfex.toString());
          }