Date: 01/09/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: xml, asp, web

I recently installed the new visual studio and I am having a bit of a hard time remembering everything I heard at the 2003 PDC about the new features I can use when doing C# development.

I do remeber the following few:
Generics --> has anyone tried this ? Seemed better than having to write your own custom class, is it ?
Parial classes -> omg I love this feature ! I love that the very boring generated code wont be in my file. I like my files nice and navigatable. YAY
The Xml editor is slightly better but doesnt seem blazing fast as promised.
Also I bet some people like not have to use a real web server to test asp pages.

Has anyone tried the team features ? How are they ? Should we get rid of Test Director ?

Thanks !

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/53224.html

Date: 12/01/05 (C Sharp)    Keywords: xml, microsoft

I have an XSD schema that I used to create an XML document with Microsoft Word. Now, when I have the xml document created with my schema (by Word), how can I, with C# .net 2.0 pick out the nodes' data for elements defined in my xds file and read/update them?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/43389.html

Date: 06/07/05 (PHP Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, html, xml, database, asp, sql, security, web, apache

Here's what I have
Apache 1.3.33
PHP 5.0.4
MySQL 4.1.12a
Operating System: Windows 98

The error that I got when I tried using mysql_connect() on a php page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()

Things that I have done so far:
Apache, mySQL, and PHP are in directories on the C drive, named accordingly

in php.ini, this is what I changed (change in italics)
doc_root = "C:\Apache\htdocs"
extension_dir "C:\php\ext"

Removed the ";" in front of extension = php_mysql.dll (Is there supposed to be quotation marks on this line?)

Saved a copy of php.ini (after these changes) in the C:\Windows directory
Saved copies of c:\php\libmysql.dll & c:\php\ext\php_mysql.dll to the C:\Windows directory


--------------
What else am I missing?


PHP Version 5.0.4

System Windows 9x JESSICA 4.10
Build Date Mar 31 2005 02:44:34
Configure Command cscript /nologo configure.js "--enable-snapshot-build" "--with-gd=shared"
Server API Apache
Virtual Directory Support enabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path no value
PHP API 20031224
PHP Extension 20041030
Zend Extension 220040412
Debug Build no
Thread Safety enabled
IPv6 Support enabled
Registered PHP Streams php, file, http, ftp, compress.zlib
Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PHP Credits

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Configuration
PHP Core
Directive Local Value Master Value
allow_call_time_pass_reference On On
allow_url_fopen On On
always_populate_raw_post_data Off Off
arg_separator.input & &
arg_separator.output & &
asp_tags Off Off
auto_append_file no value no value
auto_globals_jit On On
auto_prepend_file no value no value
browscap no value no value
default_charset no value no value
default_mimetype text/html text/html
define_syslog_variables Off Off
disable_classes no value no value
disable_functions no value no value
display_errors On On
display_startup_errors Off Off
doc_root no value no value
docref_ext no value no value
docref_root no value no value
enable_dl On On
error_append_string no value no value
error_log no value no value
error_prepend_string no value no value
error_reporting no value no value
expose_php On On
extension_dir C:\php5 C:\php5
file_uploads On On
highlight.bg #FFFFFF #FFFFFF
highlight.comment #FF8000 #FF8000
highlight.default #0000BB #0000BB
highlight.html #000000 #000000
highlight.keyword #007700 #007700
highlight.string #DD0000 #DD0000
html_errors On On
ignore_repeated_errors Off Off
ignore_repeated_source Off Off
ignore_user_abort Off Off
implicit_flush Off Off
include_path .;C:\php5\pear .;C:\php5\pear
log_errors Off Off
log_errors_max_len 1024 1024
magic_quotes_gpc On On
magic_quotes_runtime Off Off
magic_quotes_sybase Off Off
mail.force_extra_parameters no value no value
max_execution_time 30 30
max_input_time -1 -1
open_basedir no value no value
output_buffering 0 0
output_handler no value no value
post_max_size 8M 8M
precision 14 14
register_argc_argv On On
register_globals Off Off
register_long_arrays On On
report_memleaks On On
report_zend_debug On On
safe_mode Off Off
safe_mode_exec_dir no value no value
safe_mode_gid Off Off
safe_mode_include_dir no value no value
sendmail_from no value no value
sendmail_path no value no value
serialize_precision 100 100
short_open_tag On On
SMTP localhost localhost
smtp_port 25 25
sql.safe_mode Off Off
track_errors Off Off
unserialize_callback_func no value no value
upload_max_filesize 2M 2M
upload_tmp_dir no value no value
user_dir no value no value
variables_order EGPCS EGPCS
xmlrpc_error_number 0 0
xmlrpc_errors Off Off
y2k_compliance On On
zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off Off


apache
Apache for Windows 95/NT

Apache Version Apache/1.3.33 (Win32) PHP/5.0.4
Apache Release 10329100
Apache API Version 19990320
Hostname:Port localhost:80
Timeouts Connection: 300 - Keep-Alive: 15

Directive Local Value Master Value
child_terminate 0 0
engine 1 1
last_modified 0 0
xbithack 0 0


Apache Environment
Variable Value
COMSPEC C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
DOCUMENT_ROOT c:/apache/htdocs
HTTP________________ ----- -------
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive
HTTP_HOST localhost
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
PATH C:\WINDOWS;c:\windows;c:\windows\COMMAND
PHPRC C:/php
REMOTE_ADDR 127.0.0.1
REMOTE_PORT 2477
SCRIPT_FILENAME c:/apache/htdocs/phptest.php
SERVER_ADDR 127.0.0.1
SERVER_ADMIN jessica.karels@gmail.com
SERVER_NAME localhost
SERVER_PORT 80
SERVER_SIGNATURE

Date: 01/02/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: php, css, html, xml, java, web

Hey Guys,

I have a website i am working on

http://dev.jamesmandrews.com/

It's one html file. index.php (not really php just html in a php ext file)
http://dev.jamesmandrews.com/index.php

Then one javascript file
http://dev.jamesmandrews.com/includes/control.js

And an XML data file
http://dev.jamesmandrews.com/data/portfolio.xml

Basically when in Safari and Firefox it does what it's suppose to. When you click on portfolio it builds a grid of album categories, when you click on a category it builds a grid of albums for that category, when you click on the album it builds a grid of images in that album. when you click on the image, it displays the full image alone.

The problem in IE is that it doesn't listen to my divObj.style.cssFloat="left"; command and I don't understand why not. Looking for some insight.

Thanks,

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/89322.html

Date: 11/29/05 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: php, xml, java

The reason for counting characters is to limit the number of characters... so when the count reaches 400, I put up an alert explaining the user has reached the limit.

However, because I am using onkeypress to count the characters, it still "works" when the Javascript error is up. That then results in the is error in FireFox:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIDOMTreeWalker.nextNode]" nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/button.xml :: fireAccessKeyButton :: line 93" data: no]

My first thought was to trim the message. Didn't work.

My second thought was to kick the cursor out of the text box with blur.
if(size > 400)
{
gID("MESSAGE").value = gID("MESSAGE").value.substring(0,399);
gID("MESSAGE").blur();
alert("During Beta Testing Messages are limited to 400 characters. Your message is "+size+" characters long.");
}

But that doesnt seem to work. Any ideas?

BTW: the PHP does also trims the content - so the issue is just the UI and Javascript error, not the function.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/84773.html

Date: 01/04/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: rss, xml

I'm having troubles in adding RSS-Feeds into my bookmarks. Firefox won't show the RSS-Symbol on the sites, although they have RSS-Feeds. When I try to add the links manually they won't work. They are just... empty.

Here is a screenshot to show what I mean: Screenshot

The feed itself is a XML-File and I'm confused why it doesn't work, because the RSS from DeviantArt is XML too and that works fine. I have checked the settings of the other feeds and I can't see any difference between them (except the name and the URL).

I got the links from here: C64.sk (the entry from 4. January, 04:06 am, "RSS feeds of C= Homestead, C64.sk & Slay Radio")

What is wrong there?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/345641.html

Date: 01/09/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: xml

so, I'm creating an .xml doc to be linked to through flash for work.... and I'm clueless. I figure I'm going to look up some tutorials etc. on xml.com and w3schools.com etc... and try and pick up something about .xml first... considering I'm clueless and this is pretty much my first .xml project, seems very sink or swim ... blarg...

but alongside that, does anyone have any basic suggestions of any xml parsers? or just... anything? comments? etc?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/284358.html

Date: 01/23/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: html, xml, java, microsoft

node is an element of xml (not xhtml!) document, is a child of response.xml.documentElement (from XmlHttpRequest or Msxml2.XMLHTTP, Microsoft.XMLHTTP).

Code var textContent = node.textContent works fine in Firefox and doesn't worsk in IE. I don't know how to get text contents of a node in IE, because of under it:

1. typeof node.textContent == undefined
2. typeof node.innerText == undefined
3. typeof node.innerHTML == undefined (it is normal, checked just in case)
4. typeof node.nodeValue == null (it's ok)

I use javascript code "inside" html document, declared as


http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Do you have any ideas?

update:

texContent = node.firstChild.nodeValue

It's enough in my case. You can [recursively] concatenate nodeValues of all text childs of given element if need.

ps: sorry for my english...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/90948.html

Date: 01/24/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: xml

I'm using NetAdvantage v5.3.20053.1060

I have a grid that I dynamucally create and populate utilizing XML. I have set the DisplayLayout.ScrollBar property to Never, on the properties page, and in 5 different places in the code. The problem is, when I run my page, both scroll bars show up.



Any Ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/56366.html

Date: 01/27/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, xml, sql

hi, i'm looking for any possible tips, i'd created some content which i've got in an xml file;

 
  
  
   spew of test1
  
 
 
  
  
   spew of text2
  
 

php

php_mysql

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/402765.html

Date: 01/31/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: xml, asp

Okay, so question:

Does anyone know offhand of any good tutorials on configuring a search through an XML in FLASH where you expect to get multiple results from one search? (example- multiple records with the same status). I'm finding a ton on searching for exact records, but they all expect only one result back and it's driving me nuts. I've spent waaaay to much time on this stupid little thing, I'm SO not good enough with actionscript to this. I've tried lots of the tutorials on xml sites that work with flash, tried messing around with the actionscript myself, done tutorials in the books, no luck. HUGe waste of time. right now I've got my xml configured, it's all hooked up, and it even shows the first record, and I figured out how to get it to work for a random numbered record even!!! (before it was only showing the LAST record of the loop. i think it might have something to do with that whole "i" variable thingie-yeah, I know, soooo technical)Now if I can only get the stupid thing to get the REST of the records... I'm so getting an actionscript for dummies book. something with visible illustrations and DETAILED descriptions of variables. All the ones out there are WAY over my poor beginners head-i feel like I'm grasping it, and then suddenly -- WHOOPS! look-we added a variable and we're NOT telling you(the reader) why *bangheadondesk*.

*sigh*

i swear I'm not usually this stupid when it comes to this stuff.

(and before I get any of those dont.use.flash messages- it's an internal demonstration of a program replicated in flash-so not flashy blinki-ness and flash + xml was requested of me...no choice really ARG-)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1053557.html

Date: 02/03/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, xml

I am trying to create an XML file (specifically, an XSPF file) based upon mp3 files located in a particular directory called 'audio'. I am not sure which functions I need to use, though.

http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
 
  
    audio/back2basics.mp3n>
    images/digid.jpg
    back2basics.mp3
  
  
    audio/procrastinator.mp3tion>
    images/digid.jpg
    procrastinator.mp3on>
  
  
    audio/farewell.mp3
    images/digid.jpg
    farewell.mp3
  
 

I am under the impression that I do not need to use XML specific functions because XML specific functions are only needed for parsing an XML file. am I wrong? I am not exactly sure how to go about doign this, though I can guess that it is not that complicated. I have never used PHP to create a file before.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/290786.html

Date: 02/08/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml, web

I am trying to make a short script that will generate an XSPF/XML file based upon the names of mp3 files that are in a particular directory. It will be a dynamic playlist that automatically updates. I am using it with the XSPF Web Music Player, an open source flash-based mp3 player.

Anyway, I am pretty sure that I need to use the fopen() function. When I use it in my script a warning is generated:

Warning: fopen(playlist2.xspf): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/......./playlist_generator.php on line 43

now, I think I can fix this with the CHMOD command, but my question is what is the exact command ie which code should i use? I need to do this through the FTP program in the windows console.

Any tips would be much appreciated!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/409678.html

Date: 02/12/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: rss, xml, web

So I previously posted that issue with getting rss feeds to show up nicely on a website, and things are great save for the occasional happening of this:

Unable to open RSS Feed http://website.com/blog/index.xml with error Empty reply from server, exiting

...how do i make that happen less? or at least, in the event it does happen, not just give up loading the rest of the website?

along with that, it would be great if i'm more certain of what it even means. from the sound of things it means "we went to load this but it took too long and we gave up, sorry." is that the case?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1059048.html

Date: 02/13/06 (Apache)    Keywords: xml, java, web, apache

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to apache, my experince doesn't extend much further than .htaccess files. But I want to have a Java API for creating/managing such files.

Does anyone know of any existing java toolkits/apis?

I understand that apache configs files can be xml docs too. Managing xml docs (rather text docs) is probably more java friendly, but I don't seem to be able to find much info on xml apache config files. Can anyone suggest something?

I found a good cgi app written in perl... it's called webmin but I'd like to know if there's a java api

Thanks in advance.

Corin.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/30066.html

Date: 02/13/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml, web

I was just wondering if anyone had an idea on how to go about this...

I'm running an iTunes plugin that automatically puts the ID3 info from my currently playing song into an XML file on my website, which I then parse and display using PHP. That's fine.

It also uploads a thumbnail of that song to a specific directory. Now, playing iTunes for several hours on end leaves me with a folder full of thumbnails. I'd like to write a cron job that deletes all but the currently playing or x most recent thumbnails.

I can't just wipe out all but the newest x files from the directory, as the XML file is saved there as well (the plugin is non-configurable in this respect), and the plugin uploads artwork for songs that only play for a split second, even if the XML file won't list them. So I can't delete just the x most recent files with a specific naming scheme, I've got to delete all image files except the ones listed in the XML file.

The problem with that is that the XML file does not list a file extension for the album artwork, and just lists a hash as an ID (which is only a part of the filename used to save the image when uploading). As is, I use a number of if/else statements to determine if a file exists and what file type it is.

I'm *thinking* that the best way is to collect those album artwork IDs, and unlink() all images that DON'T contain those hash IDs. I'm not sure the best way to go about this though, as while I've got plenty of experience with PHP in certain respects, it's filesystem commands are something I've neglected.

So, essentially, I'm just wondering if there's an easy PHP file command for collecting files that fall under certain criteria. Any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/412289.html

Date: 02/15/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: xml

This looks so stupidly simple, but I can't figure it out and it's really holding me up.

Using XMLHttpRequest I can make a function to process the contents of another file, but I can't find a way to make a function to return the contents of another file.

var xmlhttp;

function getFile() {
	if (xmlhttp) {
		xmlhttp.open("POST", "file.txt",true);
		xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
			if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
				alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
			}
		}
	}
}

window.addEventListener('load',function(ev) {
	try {
		xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	} catch (e) {
		xmlhttp=false;
	}
	getFile();
}, false);

var xmlhttp;

function getFile() {
	var response = "no data";
	
	if (xmlhttp) {
		xmlhttp.open("POST", "file.txt",true);
		xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
			if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
				response = xmlhttp.responseText;
			}
		}
	}
	
	return response;
}

window.addEventListener('load',function(ev){
	try {
		xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	} catch (e) {
		xmlhttp=false;
	}
	
	alert(getFile());
	
}, false);

It's obviously a race condition - as XMLHttpRequest runs as a seperate thread the getFile() function is exiting before the inner function has completed and will always return "no data".

Problem is, I can't think of a way to work around it. Can anyone help me out? I'm sure this must be a reasonably common problem.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/93361.html

Date: 02/15/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml

I noticed that PHP 5 has a lot of nice new features: SPL, SimpleXML, exceptions, PDO, etc. It does not seem to be widely deployed, however (from my limited knowledge). Does anyone have any opinions on whether it would be better to author for PHP 4 or 5?

Note: OpenSuSE comes with PHP 4.4, so I would have to compile PHP 5.1.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/414585.html

Date: 02/17/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: xml, java, web

Java SE 6 Beta offers the first feature complete version of next major release of the Java SE platform. Sun expects to ship the final release of Java SE 6 in the fall of 2006. The key new features (I care about) are: New Smart Card I/O API New Client and Core Java Architecture for XML-Web Services (JAX-WS) [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-se-goes-beta-feature-complete-download-now/

Date: 03/11/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: software, browser, css, html, xml, asp, java, web, linux, seo, microsoft

Events: A Introduction to the Model of GUI programing

Xah Lee, 2005-05

In Graphical User Interface (GUI) programing, there's the concept of event. For example, moving the mouse, clicking a mouse button, switch to a different window, hitting a key. The software needs to respond to these things. The way it works is that, the programer writes code that draw buttons, menus, windows etc. And the programer write his program so that it knows the mouse position, mouse click, keyboard press, or any other signal from input devices. The programer also writes code so that for example if a mouse click happened, and its position is inside a button, then some function is called as a reaction.


All this is very tedious and very complex. What happens today is that most of the common tasks for GUI software are already written as a package called framework. That is to say, the codes to draw GUI elements such as windows or buttons or dialogue popups, and the detection of input signals such as button clicking or menu selection or keyboard inputs, are all integrated together as a pre-written set of code. The programer is relieved of writing these tedious code. Instead, he call predefined functions in the framework to deal with many issues related to creating a GUI.

In such a framework, it is still quite complicated. Such framework often comes in the guise of Operating System Developer's Kit. For example, writing application in Mac OS uses Apple's kit called Cocoa, Carbon, Toolbox, and there's also Microsoft's Foundation Classes (MFC) and Linux has frameworks such as Gnome, and Java offers its own GUI framework called AWK and Swing.

All these frameworks are incompatible with each other, but the model they use are basically the same. In today's personal computing, one basically have graphical “Windows”, and in it one has “Menus”, and “Buttons”, “Dialogues”. User point or click on these to tell the software to do specific things. For the programer, the way it works in these frameworks is like this:

In the framework, GUI elements such as Windows, Menus, Buttons are collectively called “widgets”. For each GUI element there is a pre-defined function that draws them. The programer calls these functions to draw them. When a user act on these widgets such as pressing a button, the widget's function will receive a signal. Each widget may be associated with different types of signals. For example, Windows can be dragged or resized, while a button can be clicked, a menu has items to be selected. When a Window is dragged, the corresponding widget function might get a signal that is the positions of beginning and ending coordinates. When a window is closed, the widget function will get a “close” signal. When a button is clicked, that button's widget function will get a “click” signal. When a menu is pulled, that menu's widget function will get a signal of the selected item.

For each widget-drawing function the programer called, he assigns to it a function called “event handler”. These event handlers are called and are given the signals when user acts on them. For example, when a button is clicked, the button widget function automatically calls its event handler function and gives it “clicked” as argument.

The programer doesn't have to worry about how the button function knew when it is being pressed. All that is implemented in the framework. The GUI programer today only needs to call these widget function as to design the appearance of the window, where the button shows up, what menu items are there etc, and assign a function (event handler) to each of these functions, so that when these GUI elements are hit, the widge functions call the programer's event handler functions, which do whatever computation the software is actually supposed to do.
HTML, DOM, JavaScript, and the Browser as a GUI Application Platform

In writing Web Application using JavaScript, the technologies involved are HTML, DOM, JavaScript, and the Browser.

The HTML (and related technologies such as XML and CSS) are used to show the GUI widgets and content. DOM ascribes to HTML a standard definition of structural meaning so that it can be manipulated programmatically. And, JavaScript is the language that actually lets the programer program what happens. While the browser, is the underlying engine that ties everything together. It takes care of rendering the HTML, and takes care of knowing all the mouse positions and register all events (user actions) such as keystroks, mouse movement, clicks, menu pulls, window closing etc. It takes care of interpreting the JavaScript code, and will execute them when a event happens.

Here, the GUI is the browser window and HTML elements (radio checklist, check box list, menu list, text field, button, window pane/frame etc.). The events (user actions) are defined by DOM. They are for example: oncopy, ondrag, onload, onclick, onkeydown, onmouseover. And the actions (event handlers) are JavaScript functions the user writes.

For example, it may be desired to change the cursor icon to a finger when the mouse is moved over a hyperlink. So, a hyperlink (considered as a widget) has a MouseOver event, and the programer can assign a event handler to it, so when a mouse hovers over a link, that function is called, and the function's code changes the mouse pointer icon to a finger icon.

For list of events defined by DOM, see for example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events.asp
Assign Event Handlers to GUI Widgets

To associate a event handler to a HTML widget, there are two ways. One way is to put the code directly inside the HTML tag, like this:

Hover Over Me!

Hover Over Me!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/96319.html