Hi I'm just after a bit of advice - I am building an online store (using php/mysql) and at present can view current orders by clicking through to the relevant section and applying filters etc. An email is also sent to my inbox. Because of the nature of the business (orders need to be prepared and dispatched within half hour), I would l...
I'm getting started with web development on OS X need some good development tools, text editors...etc. I have XCode already but it doesn't seem geared towards editing the web technologies I will be using: xhtml, javascript, css, and php. So I am looking for some ideas. I know about TextMate, but am trying to avoid spending any $$$. Th...
I just wrote one of my first web applications (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Django), and would like to launch it publicly. It's a webform-based task disguised as a game; I intend to eventually put it on Amazon Mechanical Turk and give small bonuses to people who achieve certain scores. Even though this app does not have a tremendously high sec...
I'm new to creating html pages etc - but am using VS 2008 just for the editing/intellisense capabilities. My problem is I have a pure HTML only website (no ASP.NET) and have a fairly extensive header that has to be used in every page. It's frustrating to change the header parts of the HTML across all pages every single time it changes...
I'm having trouble installing Tomcat on my windows XP machine. I already have Apache and JDK 6 installed, what I need to know is: Which file to download from the Lastest Tomcat download page And how to install it so I can run the sample web app by going to http://localhost/ In my C:\Program Files\Java folder, I see the following fold...
I know this is not a stricly programming-related question, but does anyone know any good web application able to provide the following features: full Textile markup support a way to organize multiple documents, i.e. as a wiki or just categorization/searching HTML preview Public and private pages Free Hosted remotely [bonus] Export to H...
Is there any size limitation for data protocol URL "data" URL scheme values? I'm interested in limitations in popular web browsers. In another words, how long data:image/jpg;base64,base64_encoded_data can be in <img src="data:image/jpg;base64,base64_encoded_data" /> or background-image: url(data:image/jpg;base64,base64_encoded_data)? ...
Further to my question yesterday (here), I am working on a webpage that has a section that shows 'live' order details. The top half of my webpage has Spry Tabbed Panels. One of the panels contains an include call to a separate php page that I have created (getOpenOrders.php). This contains an SQL query to obtain all open orders and then...
I recently quit my job. It felt like it was time to move on, and I had been offered another opportunity anyways. However this opportunity is only for this coming summer and after that I am going to need to find another job. I will possibly be looking for a job in the web development space, however my web dev skills are a bit out of date....
I am developing a web-application in grails.In that I have implemented video's playing option.For playing video I used the flashplayer plugin .It is working.Now I am planning to implement the feature that user's also can upload their video's.After uploading the video files how to convert those video files to .flv format? or Does flash...
I have previously used Expression Web with XP and MS Server 2003 and in each case I am able to preview .asp pages in the browser. I have now transferred to Vista and get the error "this page may contain dynamic content that requires a Web server...." On the other hand should I wish to preview an HTML page there is no problem. I am awar...
Hello there, I'm new to this site but I've read the rules and also searched the questions section but not found any related question answered well. anyway, the question: what's the Pros. & Cons. of using OpenID on a website instead of a regular login system? My customer wants me to use this kind of logins for a local sale system & I ha...
I have listing pages that take a page argument on the url like the following: http://www.domain.com/foo/bar/?page=7 Should I just include the URL without params or should I list all pages in my sitemap.xml? EDIT Paginated content are listings, like an index. Therefore their content is also (in more detail) found in detail pages. But...
I'm working on a simple e-commerce website right now, nothing real just practicing the problem that I'm having is how to make a simple search in the website? i.e. if I want to search for the word "iphone" in the database of the website. how can I do that? and how can I specify a column to search in it instead of searching the whole ta...
Some time ago I found this site which has an API to draw stuff in javascript using divs. I've tried to use it, but noticed that as the number of divs increased, the stability of the page (especially doing select,copy,paste) decreased. Now I'm about to write a web-app that will have a huge amount of generated divs, and I'm wondering if ...
I want to count the number of visits (or visitors, not page requests or hits) made to my whole site. I want to store each visit in a database to show some graphics with this data in the future. Also, I want it to be reliable, fast and not to be polling to database for each page request. So, I think I should put some code in some entry...
How would you go with i18ning a rich web application? Would you internationalize in the server or in the browser. What are your experiences with this? ...
I recently got interested in web development coming from kernel based applications. I am curious to what the best development environment and language that one can use to build a nice looking website. I have a distant familiarity with PHP, CSS and the like but I am comfortable with HTML. ...
I am looking for a web-based WYSIWYG (or WYSIWYM) editor like TinyMCE or WMD Editor (used to write this question) that supports users to write mathematical formulas. I have looked at LaTeX a little bit but it has a learning curve and I am not sure if support for MathML is extensive. Ideally I would also like to avoid having to rewrite an...
Is it possible to add an <option> at the end of a <select> created with the collection_select helper method? Right now I have f.collection_select(:category_id , @categories, :id, :name, {:prompt => 'Please select a category'}) which generates <select id="product_category_id" name="product[category_id]"> <option value="">Please se...