web-development

What features to be included into an e-commerce system written in php?

Hi, we are planning to buid an e-commerce system in php. We will not ship the products but offer them as download. What, in your opinion, are the technical must-haves of such a project? (databases, php modules, server ...). Thanks very much for your suggestions and tips ;9 best, heinrich ...

single sign on multiple sub domains

I have implemented single sign on multiple sub domains like: www.abc.com my.abc.com support.com using cookies or called session cookies(it will expire as browsers close). syntax: setcookie("VARIABLE_NAME", VALUE , 0, '/' , '.domain.com'); parameter are name of cookie variable name , value , time of cookie expire(zero means it will de...

c# how to retrieve post data

If I have a textbox txtInfo in a form that I submit via post, if I post back to the page I can read the value entered in the textbox using txtInfo.Text. What if I am posting to a different page? Do I have to parse Request.Form for the control name mutilations (which is what I am doing now) or can I get it from that mess .net passes aro...

what are the rules for making mobile friendly website ?

Hi, I would like to add value to my website that I have developed at the moment so that user can check on their mobile phone. My questions: Should I make different template for mobile version and full version one? Like creating mobile.example.com for mobile version? Does Opera Mini not support JavaScript? I have a mobile phone that ...

Can ASP.NET pages be as "lively" as a page done with just HTML?

I've never created a web page and I'm just learning ASP.NET now and all the examples I see are mostly with filling out forms etc. So I'm wondering if the lively, colorful, and snazzy web sites can be done with ASP.NET. I have also been playing with a trial of Expression Web. It seems to be for the "fancier" side of things. Are the two si...

Site Development - Your Setup ( editor,project management, test site, live site.. etc)

Hey Guys, I'm relatively new to the Web Development business. Me and 2 friends started up our own little company. 1 person is a designer, 1 person is sales / consultant, and I am the developer. Right now, its an after work project, but we hope to expand and let it become our full time jobs. Anyway, my question to you, is what is the b...

Tips and Tricks in Dreamweaver

Hi, I want to gather Dreamweaver Tips and Tricks making development easy. Mine, I recently discovered that I could asign a keyboard key in inserting code from 'code snippet'. for me it's really a time and effort saver. Since I would just press the special key and code is generated. How about yours? What are your techniques? Thanks! ...

Looking for full-featured Web-Application theme sets similar to Pilu's web-app-theme

Hi there, We develop a fair number of web-based applications, most of which are hosted on enterprise servers, and not accessible via the internet. We haven't yet adapted a standard template for our web apps, and we waste a lot of time doing design work when we release an app that is consumed via a browser. I say waste because most of o...

Data content not rendering on the webpage: Server not replying back

My page is made in php, I have qcodo which is layered on top of my database for the website. Occasionally, the webpage does not render and instead of the content it should display it displays the website URL in the body. This problem started occurring after I added few fields in the database. At first I thought this might be a qcodo pr...

python: interact with the session in cgi scripts

Can python cgi scripts write and read data to the session? If so how? Is there a high-level API or must I roll my own classes? ...

html: what effects does 'form' have on the layout of a page

I thought that an html form has no effect on the layout of a page, and that it is just a way to group fields to send their values to the server in a single request. However, I notices that when I remove the form tag, the layout changes. Where can I find an explanation of visual effects of the <form> tag? ...

Google Maps API v3: InfoWindow not sizing correctly

Hi all It appears my InfoWindow, when you click on the home icon on my Google Maps v3, is not properly auto-sizing to the content of the InfoWindow. It gives scrollbars when it should not. The InfoWindow should be properly auto-sizing. Any ideas on why? Link below to live size. http://tinyurl.com/ygktsj Per request, the relevant Ja...

How do I trigger a PostBack with arguments from Javascript?

This is what I'm doing: Using jquery, I'm popping up a "form" over the page that lets the user search for branches of the company and select the one they want. When the form pops up, they can type in a textbox, and it will do AJAX requests back to the server to return the top n results for what they've entered, and those results will be ...

Where should IsChanged functionality be handled?

I'm having an internal debate about where I should handle checking for changes to data and can't decide on the practice that makes the most sense: Handling IsChanged in the GUI - This requires persistence of data between page load and posting of data which is potentially a lot of bandwidth/page delivery overhead. This isn't so bad in ...

What does SSL do for web applications

Does SSL provide any type of security other than simply encrypting the content of the HTTP request for web applications? ...

does cgi-bin have something like servlet filters

Does cgi scripts have something like servlet filters. I.e. a piece of code that is given the opportunity to see and or modify a request before and or after it is processes by the "real" script. ...

Caching architecture for search results in an ASP.NET application

What is a good design for caching the results of an expensive search in an ASP.NET system? Any ideas would be welcomed ... particularly those that don't require inventing a complex infrastructure of our own. Here are some general requirements related to the problem: Each search result can produce include from zero to several hundred ...

Developing functionality or visual aspects of an interface - which to develop first?

I am currently refining my design process for developing websites, scripts, and web-based applications. My background is heavily weighted towards developing websites with minor javascript/php/flash websites and will likely remain my sole focus. I typically work alone so I try to keep focused on developing one step at a time. At the mo...

Which Language Google Uses For Web Applications

Hello, I want to know one thing, which language Google uses for web application development, because i was discussing with my friends about this and they say that Google uses Python for web applications, but which is it? Best Regards. ...

How to restrict AJAX API from unwanted use (e.g. someone performing a SELECT *)

I have a restaurant locater web application that mashes up the location of restaurants to a Google Maps. I use JQuery sliders to limit the amount of restaurant to show on the map by having Search filter such as: price, type of food, locale. These JQuery sliders call back via AJAX to an API I created to update the map without the web pa...