ugly connect

//
//  LogIn.swift
//  CheckDep
//
//  Created by Brad Marx on 10/22/17.
//  Copyright © 2017 Brad Marx. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit
import Foundation

class LogIn: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var testLabel: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var userNameField: UITextField!
    @IBOutlet weak var passwordField: UITextField!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }

    @IBAction func login(_ sender: UIButton) {

        // assign username and password
        let userName = userNameField.text! //"username="
        let password = passwordField.text! //"password="

        // set up url path
        let urlPath = "INSERT YOUR URL HERE example: https://www.yourwebsite.com/banana.php"
        let url = URL(string: urlPath) //authenticateUser.php
        //https://api.ipify.org/?format=json")) this is a test link you can use to try and receive and parse json data

        //generate a request to send to the server
        var request = URLRequest(url: url!)
        request.httpMethod = "POST"

        // create post string with username and password
        let postString = "username=" + userName + "&password=" + password  // change this to however your website accepts the post string
        request.httpBody = postString.data(using: .utf8)


        //
        let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in
            guard let data = data, error == nil else {
                // check for fundamental networking error
                print("Data empty or error=\(String(describing: error))")
                return
            }

            if let httpStatus = response as? HTTPURLResponse, httpStatus.statusCode != 405 {
                // check for http errors
                print("statusCode should be 200, but is \(httpStatus.statusCode)")
                print("response from status code = \(String(describing: response))")
            }

            // store data in two variables, if it isn't json use the responseString
            let json = try? JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: []) as! [String:Any]
            let responseString = NSString(data: data, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue)

            // check data in the console
            print("responseString = \(responseString)")
            print("--------------------------------")
            print(json)
            print("--------------------------------")

        }
        task.resume()
    }
}