web-applications

Call external library from PHP. What is faster: exec or extension?

Hi, I need to make calls from webpage to external library written in C++ and display the result. Platform is Linux, Apache, PHP. My current idea is to use PHP service which will call my library/program. I found that there are two possible ways to do this: 1) use PHP 'exec' function 2) write PHP extension I am curious what works more ...

question on web development lanaguages

Hello guys, i am just finished college and worked with the java language for the past few years. i want to change, what do you guys think is the most usefull web development language to use? what would you guys recommend for me to learn rite so guys u have all explained a different language, lets say i would like to create a file s...

Accessing contents of a file in a web-application without uploading.

As far as I can tell, it is impossible to access the content of files on the user's computer in a web application without first uploading to the server, then re-downloading to user, unless some sort of plug-in is used. (Flash, etc.) Ideally, the user would upload the file directly to localstorage and then scripts would have a chance to p...

When building a web application project, TFS 2008 builds two separate projects in _PublishedFolder. Why?

I am trying to perform build automation on one of my web application projects built using VS 2008. The _PublishedWebSites contains two folders: Web and Deploy. I want TFS 2008 to generate only the deploy folder and not the web folder. Here is my TFSBuild.proj file: <Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Compile" xmlns="http://sc...

Have a range of IE builds on test machine

I currently have a testing environment for web apps on a virtual machine. The problem - i would like to keep IE 6 for testing and also have access to newer versions of IE as well. How can i do this? Thanks. ...

sessionStorage seems to be working at random.

I have created this piece of code $('#date a').click(function(){ delete sessionStorage.image; delete sessionStorage.type; sessionStorage.type = 'Weakest Link'; sessionStorage.image = '<a class="charlie" href="#date"><img src="images/tea cup 01.jpg" width="50" style="margin-left:-11px !important;margin-bottom:-14px !...

Command dialect is not supported by this provider.

Hi Have and old ASP website have just updated SQL DB to 2005 Can now log into database however certain commands within the pages are returning this error.. Error Details: Category=Microsoft SQL Native Client Number=-2147217898) Description=Command dialect is not supported by this provider. Filename=/home/_private/Includes/SQLServer.as...

How to resolve issue of loading web application in OC4J (10.1.3.5) that err and says - can't find the class oracle.jbo.JboException?

How to resolve issue - while loading web application in OC4J (101.3.5) the application server can't find the class oracle.jbo.JboException? ...

Efficient way to update SQL 'relationship' table

Say I have three properly normalised tables. One of people, one of qualifications and one mapping people to qualifications: People: id | Name ---------- 1 | Alice 2 | Bob Degrees: id | Name --------- 1 | PhD 2 | MA People-to-degrees: person_id | degree_id --------------------- 1 | 2 # Alice has an MA 2 ...

CMS for a fairly large Mobile Website - Please Help Select.

I am looking for :- A mature, scalable and proven CMS solution With Support for Mobilization (Android and iPhone) Good Amount of Customization using Java / .NET Lots of out of the box components to choose from. Please help with recommendations. p.s Are there any Mobile CMS providers which works in a SaaS model? ...

How to write specific application for facebook?

Hi there! Please help me with documentation to write specific application for Facebook. Need to know, what language to choose? is specific facebook API? is documentation for API? is site with samples catalogue? need to know all related info. Some words about app, it would be app, which compare users interests. Thanks in advance. ...

FIFA official website design and development

Hi, I'm just curious about design and development of official FIFA website. What is the programming language being used to build the site? What is the development methodology they are using? I used Firebug to look around the site.Here's sth I found: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, private Conten...

Architecture of a single-page JavaScript web application?

How should a complex single-page JS web application be structured on the client-side? Specifically I'm curious about how to cleanly structure the application in terms of its model objects, UI components, any controllers, and objects handling server persistence. MVC seemed like a fit at first. But with UI components nested at various dep...

Is A Web App Feasible For A Heavy Use Data Entry System?

Looking for opinions on this, we're working on a project that is essentially a data entry system for a production line. Heavy data input by users who normally work in Excel or other thick client data systems. We've been told (as a consequence) that we have to develop this as a thick client using .NET. Our argument was to develop as a ...

What is the quickest way to find the asp.net file location of an html element in UI?

Hi, Let's imagine you have an asp.net page in front of you full of input elements, user controls and panels etc. And you are asked to modify a specific textBox and you do not know where that textBox stands in your project. Most of the time I use FireBug and try to see the Id of that element but it is not the best way all the time. So...

One account, multiple users, multiple shopping cart in a web application

I received a somewhat unusual request (imo) for a transactional web site. I have to implement the possibility of having multiple shopping cart for the same user. Those really are shopping carts, not order templates. I.E: A store with several departments ordering under the same account, but with a different person placing orders for a ...

Extensible framework for context-sensitive help in web application

For the web application we are currently working on, we will have to think in advance on how to roll it out to a number of different user groups. From a functional side it is important to have a documentation system in place that can be used to generate a user guide and context-sensitive help from the same source files. We have planned ...

customize web application root context in apache

Hi, I have web application abc.war and I want to deploy it on Apache Tomcat. The problem is that, by default, the path to this application is http://&lt;server-name&gt;/abc but I want to access it as http://&lt;server-name&gt;/xyz. I put into WAR's META-INF folder the file context.xml that is : <Context path="/xyz" docBase="abc" ove...

Filter out search engine bot traffic

I'm doing custom-rolled view tracking on my website, and I just realize that I totally forgot about search bots hitting the pages. How do I filter out that traffic from my view tracking? ...

Multiple login locations for an online app.

Hello, I am working on a browser based application that will have many users. The catch is that every user should have their own customized login page, but the actual application is the same for everyone, and needs to be in a central location. The login page is static. That is, if we have a user that requires a separate login, we will...