Hi, I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but if someone could help, that would be great. 

What I am trying to do is have a canvas page (which I have) in which the user enters a value into a field and it enters it into a MySQL database. That works fine. What I need to do is get the value from the database based off of the user's ID and then use it in the profile box.


Step 1: User Enters Data on Canvas Page (iFrame) -> MySQL Database
Profile: Contacts DB -> DB sends data back based of off User ID

Once again any help would be appreciated!

I suppose you can use gadgets.io.makeRequest (from OpenSocial API) to send a request back to your server to retrieve the info you need on the profile view. If your profile view is written in javascript, you could use something like:

var params = {};
params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.CONTENT_TYPE] = gadgets.io.ContentType.TEXT;
var url = "http://www.myserver.com/myhandler.php";
gadgets.io.makeRequest(url, response, params);

function response(data) {
  // do something with the received data...
}

You may want to check the OpenSocial reference for options regarding signed requests and different content types.