I can see how one would go about transferring files from a VB application to a web server using PHP/mySQL, but is there anyway to take a variable from a PHP page or from a database and get that as a variable inside your visual basic code?

any help/examples would be appreciated!

Only way i can think of off top of my head, is writing php to pull the variable. then have vb goto that file on the web server and pull the source code and filter that variable out

Theres probably a better way, but that will work.

(i tested this making a lil mini chat thing with php/vb a while back)

I had this sort of idea a while ago. I thought if you make a feed for the data using PHP then you could read that feed with VB.