server-side

Read echo'ed output from another PHP file

I want 1 PHP file to "run" (include?) another PHP file on the same server, and access its echo'ed output as a string. How do i do this in PHP? Any inbuilt functions to do this? Or any better way of executing another PHP file and getting its output? ...

Is there any future for server-side JavaScript?

Is there any future for server side JavaScript? ...

Securing AJAX Requests via GUID

I'm writing a web app that will be making requests via AJAX and would like to lock down those calls. After a little research, I am considering using some form of random token (string) to be passed back along with the request (GUID?). Here's the important parts of my algorithm: Assign a token to a JavaScript variable (generated server...

How to detect if flash installed from C# for Firefox?

Is there a way to check if flash is installed in Firefox from C# code on the server? For instance when the client browser is IE, you can check Request.Headers["accept"].Contains ("application/x-shockwave-flash") but a Firefox request doesnt contain the same header. ...

Server Side Javascript: Why?

Is the use of server side javascript prevalent? Why would one use it as opposed the any other server side scripting? Is there a specific use case(s) that makes it better than other server side languages? Also, confused on how to get started experimenting with it, I'm on freeBSD, what would I need installed in order to run server side ja...

How to access data from html controls in asp.net

How do I access data from html in asp.net in the .cs (code behind) file? in .aspx page I have <tr> <td>Username:</td><td><input id="username" type="text" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Password:</td><td><input id="password" type="password" /></td> </tr> ...

How do you avoid duplication of validation on the server and client-side?

How do you avoid duplication of validation on the server and client-side? Is there a web programming platform that generates one from the other, so I don't have to keep the two in sync? ...

Virus code injected in PHP Files

Hi I own a website running on LAMP - Linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP. In the past 2-3 weeks the PHP and jQuery files on my website have become infected from malware from a site called gumblar.cn I can't understand how does this malware get into my PHP files and how do I prevent it from happening again and again. Any ideas? Thanks Vinaya...

Is there a concept of server-side cookies in ASP.NET?

Hi guys, Not sure if I am missing a basic ASP.NET concept here, but is there a concept of server-side cookies. I know how a HTTPCookie is created on server and sent to client. But are server-side cookies something which allow to use cookies even if the client disables cookies? ...

Moving from Page A to Page B in Asp.Net. What is the "Best" way?

Hello, I have a user on what we will call PageA.aspx. This user needs to get to PageB.aspx. The obvious way is have a hyperlink that simply sends them to PageB.aspx. That got me thinking about the other ways to get between pages. One could use javascript to do a client side jump. There is also the seemingly bulky server side redire...

yui and server-side pagination

I'm using YUI 2.7.0, and I've gotten the client-side pagination down, and am now trying to get the server-side pagination down (The query could possibly return thousands of results). Right now, no results are being shown (I get the "No records found." message). Can't seem to find an answer on the web. The call to alert() shows the correc...

Ruby: client-side or server-side?

Is Ruby client- or server-side? ...

How to create a messaging service??

I want to create a messaging service that uses the XMPP protocol. How would I implement the server-side as well as the client side aspects of this service? I know I would need a server (like Jabberd 2) that runs the messaging framework. How hard would this be to set up and get running? Also what would be the best way to hook up a cli...

progressive enhancement on the server side?

Hi, Currently many of the links on our pages get changed to href="javascript:void(0);" on pageload, but if you're impatient (as most users are) you can click the links before the page loads and land on the clunkier, non-javascript, non-ajax pages. I'm thinking about progressive enhancement a lot these days, and I predict the majority o...

Design strategies for class libraries that span Javascript and C#

I'm implementing some objects which will have about an equal amount of richness on both the client-side and server side. In this particular case, I'll be building a (hopefully) little class library to deal with search tokens. So as a pseudo-code example, I'll want to be able to do the equivalent of the following in both Javascript and ...

Implementing Comet on the database-side

This is more out of curiosity and "for future reference" than anything, but how is Comet implemented on the database-side? I know most implementations use long-lived HTTP requests to "wait" until data is available, but how is this done on the server-side? How does the web server know when new data is available? Does it constantly poll th...

Create a website screenshot/thumbnail server-side?

I'm building a rails app that needs to grab and display a thumbnail screenshot from a URL. I'm having a difficult time even finding where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...

curl sending GET instead of POST

Actually, it's gotten so messy that I'm not even sure curl is the culprit. So, here's the php: $creds = array( 'pw' => "xxxx", 'login' => "user" ); $login_url = "https://www.example.net/login-form"; //action value in real form. $loginpage = curl_init(); curl_setopt($loginpage, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($loginpage, C...

Log when file is requested from server

I need a way to log an entry into a database, everytime a particular file is requested from the server. The file can be any type, even images or other media. Is it also possible to log which IP address or hostname has requested that file? ...

How can I get a bound control's client ID with javascript and/or server-side tags?

<asp:DataGrid> <ItemTemplate> 1) <asp:TextBox ID="tbComments" onChange="javascript:checkLength(<%# tbComments.ClientId %>);" runat="server"/> 2) <span id="<%# tbComments.ClientId %>Label"></span> </ItemTemplate> </asp:DataGrid> Any ideas to make the above working (which doesn't :P)? ...