web-development

Web-based equivalent of Microsoft Access?

Does anyone know of a web-based database system similar in function to Microsoft Access? Basically I'm looking for a frontend to an RDBMS that can be used to: create, modfy and delete database objects enter data directly into tables view data in a grid format easily create forms for data entry add programming logic behind such forms (...

How do I split an RTF document into individual pages using PHP

I have an RTF document that serves as a template for input data from a web page. I need to know how to break the base template into individual pages for display on the website. Is there a way to do this using PHP? I have tried searching through the RTF code inside the document, but cannot find anything that gives me a good breaking po...

How do I get data from a web form?

As a pet project I want to build a program that translate from English to Hebrew. The way I want to make the translation itself is using a web site called morfix. In this site can enter an English word and after pressing the "תרגום" (translate) button the translation is brought. My first choice is to write this program in Java, and I t...

Use IE8 Compatibility Mode for Testing Web Page Rendering of IE6?

I am still running IE6 on my development PC because I use it to test the websites I'm developing. I normally only test on IE6, assuming that IE6 is the lowest common denominator of IE family of browsers. If it renders well on IE6, it will be OK for IE7 and IE8. The other browser I use heavily for testing is Firefox 3.x. I assume th...

Best or optimum Web Server set up with Two servers,development practices

Hi I am having our company websites (x8 total 500,000per month) on a 1/3 share of a virtual server upgraded to 1 live server and 1 hot backup server. These two will be all our own, and run Debian, A2,M5,P5.2. The live one is more meaty than the spare. What would be the best way to setup and use these servers? We do not have a local de...

How to include an html page into an html page

Hi friends, I want to include an html page inside an html page. Is it possible? Please give me the code. I dont want to do it in PHP, I know that in PHP, we can use include for this situation, how can I achieve the same purely in html without using the iframe and frame concept? ...

Is it possible to have windows integrated and forms auth on the same web app (same url) ?

Basically I want to build a web app that will try windows authentication and if authentication fails then will provide the user with a login form ? I do not want to have different web apps for different authentication modes. Is this possible ? Did I missed some points about this ? ...

Creating an entire web application using django admin

I was thinking that django admin is an utility to provide trusted administrators of the site, full access to the site's data model. However, after going through django admin in detail, I understand that it is very powerful set of views and templates that one can use to create an entire application. How often do you create an entire app...

Is it possible to display an RTF file inside a web page using PHP?

I have an RTF file that I want to display inside a web page after tags have been replaced with user input. I would like to be able to display the RTF file without having to convert it to something before displaying it. Every time I try it now it gives me the popup open/save box even though I am telling it to display it inline with:...

Text running outside of its box in IE/Opera

Page: http://www.visitherefordshire.net/news In Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9.6, the text is running outside the box. It appears to be due to the tables being 100% width: if I set a pixel width (e.g. 700px) then they fit. As far as I can see all the 'outer' divs are not wider than the visible box, so why does the 100% width on the ta...

How to retrieve a value from <input> using jQuery?

I have to hidden input fields such as: <input name="foo" value="bar"> <input name="foo1" value="bar1"> I'd like to retrieve both of those values and POST them to the server using jQuery. How does one use the jQuery selector engine to grab those values? ...

Can I Flush the Buffer Early Using ASP.NET?

Best Practices for Speeing Up Your Web Site from Yahoo includes the following recommendation: When users request a page, it can take anywhere from 200 to 500ms for the backend server to stitch together the HTML page. During this time, the browser is idle as it waits for the data to arrive. In PHP you have the function flush(). It all...

Best way to profile/optimize a website on google's appengine

I'm currently trying to optimize my website, which run on the google's appengine. It's not an easy task, because I'm not using any powerful tool. Does anyone have experience in optimizing python code for this purpose? Have you find a good python profiler? ...

Devising a test for a Web Developer

I need to devise a test for web developers. This test should screen both good grasp of the DOM and manipulating it and Good skills in designing scalable and efficient DB and server side code, And to salt it a bit with web specific problems (like translating from one encoding to another, clean input-security). And best of all, cram it int...

Can Javascript read the source of any web page?

I am working on screen scraping, and want to retrieve the source code a particular page. How can achieve this with javascript? Please help me. ...

How to get zoom level in Internet Explorer 7? (javascript)

In Internet Explorer 7 some properties (mouse coordinates) are treated as physical while others are logical (offset). This essentially required Web developers to be aware of or calculate the zoom state. In IE8 release all properties are logical. ...

How can I add Google a search bar on my website?

I want to add a Google search bar on my website. How can I do this? ...

Can I create a bookmarklet button with icon?

Can I create a bookmarklet button with icon? ...

Firebug 1.3.3 - Doesn't always allow script debugging?

I've been working with firebug for a while now, but I've noticed recently that it doesn't always allow you to set a break-point in your code for some reason. The line numbers in the firebug debugger turn all grey and you can't get the program to stop on any of them. When I can get it to work, the lines you can break on turn green. I...

jQuery Animation problem using nested tables

Hi, I have a problem with animations using jQuery on nested tables. I want to make a table that is a bit like a treeview, with a little + / - to expand and get more details about the clicked row. How can I modify the following code for the animations to work both in Internet Explorer 6.0+ and in Firefox ? I can change the markup or the...