I want to build a website with backendless so when it's time to go mobile all the data can remain on the same server and will be easily accessible. I know CSS and HTML but I don't want to design the website. Which website builder should I use so that it can easily be integrated with backendless?
What you can do, is go to any website you like, go to File and select "Save Page As..." and download the website.
Next, open up the *.html and tinker around with it to your liking. Once you finish, just upload those files to your web host and hence no backend!
I do this to take components I like or see how something is built.
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I am developing an admin dashboard where I want to have a files navigation system that shall be always available from the main admin area and stay independently loaded from the main admin area.
What's the problem?
While interacting with the dashboard, since the approach is SSR with PHP, the user will be executing page requests to update a post, go to a different view, etc. So the files navigation area will have to be reloaded on every request and I don't want that, since the backend PHP will have to fetch all files and build the files tree over and over again for each request.
I though about doing the following:
The wrapper page (admin dashboard) contains two iframes in a split viewport:
iframe MAIN
iframe FILE-NAVIGATOR
The user can use and navigate on each side of the viewport without affecting the other area.
For example, navigate through files and folders without moving away from an open editor on the main iframe.
Or save the editor contents and go do something else without having to constantly refresh and re-render the files navigation area.
Both iframe contents will be hosted under the same domain, so communication between them won't be an issue.
I want to go the SSR route via PHP, since this project does not deserve the effort of building a modern SPA and I need to reuse a lot of already existing PHP code.
But still, I want to do it as good as possible.
So the question is:
Do you know if there is a cleaner/better way to achieve this, better than iframes?
I am a bit worried about all browsers supporting iframes since it's in fact an old thing.
I think your best bet would be to go with a single page application; like React or Angular. This would somehow force you to build your backend system as an API server and letting most of the heavy UI lifting to JavaScript running in the client.
Some time ago I started working on a side project that would be an Amazon S3 Browser. The application runs in the browser, the main entrypoint is here but you'd be interested in looking at the Browser part itself.
You'll notice the BucketBrowser component accessible here is composed of 2 parts: the BucketList and the BucketContent, similarly to what you want to achieve.
The main advantage of working it as React (or Angular) and a neat Backend API is the separation of concerns and the opportunity to create also a Mobile or native client for other platforms that would leverage your Backend API.
I'm not a React expert, the links I've shared are part of an experiment not ready for production usage; but will help you visualize how you could achieve your idea by leveraging React.
Use SingleSPA https://single-spa.js.org/ framework and create Container app using React. Then keep your PhP code as it is and display it as child page inside Container app page. All new modules you can create as separate module. It is kind of FE microservices. We tried it using React and Vue js but I am sure it will work for PHP too.
You can open your admin releated stuff on own workspace = virtual desktop
Thats supported on Linux, on Window and perhaps on other OS too
The follow some hints how to to some thing on Linux:
Check how many workspaces are configured on your system:
wmctrl -d
You can set a different count of workspaces if you like:
wmctrl -d | wc -l
# or on follow way:
wmctrl -n 1
Open a program in foreground on current active workspace and move to 2`nd workspace:
wmctrl -s 1 ; xed & sleep 3; wmctrl -s 0;
Open a program in background on current active workspace and move to what ever your prefered workspace is:
Thats possible too.
You can display what you want on your background picture of your screen:
on Linux systems you can use p.e. Conky
Conky: http://conky.sourceforge.net/
Conky-Optionen: http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html
Conky-Variablen: http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
Conky-colors: http://helmuthdu.deviantart.com/art/CONKY-COLORS-244793180?
Wettercodes: http://edg3.co.uk/snippets/weather-location-codes/germany/
https://www.linuxmintusers.de/index.php?topic=33952.0
https://www.linuxmintusers.de/index.php?topic=11139.0
on Windows systems, you can use p.e. bginfo
It can be they are like this on other OS too.
I develop on a remotely hosted site that I push files to via SFTP. I would like to set up my site so that I can see any CSS and HTML changes reflected immediately without the need to manually refresh my browser. I've looked at using mixture and browser sync for this but they appear to only work on locally hosted sites. Any suggestions on how to go about setting this up on remotely hosted project?
You might want to try "Emmet LiveStyle", this is a plugin for Chrome and for Sublime Text editor that lets you live code CSS (not HTML) and changes are reflected immediately without the need to refresh the browser.
Then you can use "Sublime SFTP" package for Sublime Text to automatically upload CSS files on save.
I use this setup and it works perfectly.
I made an ASP.NET MVC application which allows user to create dynamic websites. I need to add feature which will allow to download from server off-line version of choosen website as static html files with menu, hyperlinks, images, documents etc. It should work similar to applications such as Teleport Pro, but I have to choose from Admin Panel which content should be export.
Client wants to burn static website on CD, save on pendrive.
Do you have any ideas how to begin? Please help.
I currently have implemented that in a current project...
User is able to change anything in the frontend and at the end he can publish and download the offline files... the site subscribe users and show all prizes, winners and more information about that campaign.
All was done in ASP.NET MVC3 under .NET4 and hosted in AppHarbor.
It's composed at several applications but for what you want, you develop the Backend and the Frontend, and to generate the static files, simple use the Frontend to grab the full HTML
As an example, I can show what 2 users did...
Callme.dk did http://callme.julekal.info and
Sony Nordic did http://sony.julekal.info
plus, you can simply point custom domains to it as well like http://sonynordicxmas.net/
To publish and generate all files:
one part of the editing:
So I give the users, offline access (through the .zip file), online access (through the frontend application) and the ability of using custom domains...
I think the only way this might be possible is if you go to every single page and then use your browser to "Save" the web page script and all.
However this causes several issues;
You never quite get everything and you need to massage the HTML produced, dowload all the images etc to get the page to look right
Each html file now has an associated folder with the same name and each time you do this you will get another html file with a folder. You can combine all the folders into a single one but that leads me to item 3.
You will need to edit each html file to clear up any pathing issues if you want to share a single source folder.
Data is no longer dynamic!
You need to, if you want to link all the pages to each other, edit every single html file and resolver the anchor tags.
This is too much work and I think it actually breaks the true requirement.
Don't do it! :)
I have a hyperlink to an executable like so: Run Now
I'm trying to make the download dialog box appear without the save function as it is to only run only on the user's computer.
Is there any way to manipulate the file download dialog box?
FYI: Running on Windows Server '03' - IIS.
Please no suggestions for a WCF program.
Okay I found it for anyone stumbling upon this conundrum in the future.
Add the following tag to your head section: <meta name="DownloadOptions" content="nosave" /> and the file download dialog box will not display the "save" option.
For the user to not open/run but save replace "nosave" with "noopen"
Not unless you have some control over a user's machine. If your application can run on limited resources, you might want to consider doing it in Silverlight.
IMO, having a website launching an executable is a pretty bad idea.... even worst if that website is open to the general public (not on intranet). I don't know what that app is doing but it sure is NOT, 1) cross browser, 2) cross platform, and 3) safe for your users.
If you are on intranet, you might get away with giving the full server path (on a shared drive) to the executable and change security settings on your in-house machines.
Other than that, you won't succeed in a open environment such as the Internet.
From your comments, if the user downloading the file is the issue, then there's no way to get around it, as they have to download the file in order to be able to run it.
There's any number of ways to get around whatever you could manage in browser, from proxies like Fiddler intercepting the data, or lower level things like packet sniffing. Or even simply going into the browser's temp/cache folder and copying the file out once it's running.
You could probably get around most laymen by having a program that they can download that registers a file extension with Windows. Then the file downloaded from this site would have the URL of the actual data obfuscated somehow (crypto/encoding/ROT-13/etc). The app would then go and grab the file. The initial program could even have whatever functionality provided by what you want to download, but it needs the downloaded key.
But this is moving into the area of DRM and security by obscurity. If an attacker wants your file, and it's on the Internet, they will get the file.
We have created a web application, using ASP.NET, that allows users to upload documents and attach them to business entities, like customers, contacts and so on.
The application runs on the intranet and all files are uploaded through the web application into a shared folder on the server.
I would like, right from the web page, for the user to open the actual file, edit it and then save the changes back to the original location. This is a piece of cake in a Windows environment, I'm just wondering what, if any, is the best way to handle this in a web environment?
The files are usually Word documents, Excel documents and images.
Clarification
We would display all the attachments in a list format. We would like it so that the user would click on an edit link and the file would be opened in the appropriate application, for example, Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. I think the file associations in Windows would already handle this. We are just trying to save our user the time to download the original file, make their changes, delete the old file, and the upload the new file.
SharePoint does this by exposing FrontPage extensions which Word and Excel know how to deal with.
If you want to look at a commercial product for ASP.NET that allows you to edit images with AJAX (no need for installed software), I work for a company that has one (Atalasoft)
WebDAV is probably what you want. (Free)
If all your client computers are Windows, map a shared folder on the server to the same drive letter on every client and use the file:// format.
Let's say you share \ServerName\ShareName to H: on every client's computer, the you can make the link as file://h:\pat_to_the_file_under_your_share\fileName.doc
If not every one of the client's computers are in Windows, then you might try to make your links as follows (not sure if ot works):
file://\ServerName\ShareName\pat_to_the_file_under_your_share\fileName.doc
I'm trying to do something with using file:// instead of http:// but it's real sporadic based on the browser. Seems to work fine in IE, okay in Firefox, and goes nowhere in Chrome.
Looks like I may just be stuck with downloading, editing, and re-uploading the document.
It sounds like you want something similar t eRoom, where the browser works in conjunction with a component that intercepts a stream from http, stores it in a temp folder, then fires up Word or Excel and allows you to edit the stream.
You may have to create a component that will intervene and create a temporary local copy of the file.
This tool should do what you need.
http://www.dlitools.com/dlitools/dlitoolsHome.nsf/0FA6B8B31F831F468525736B0001C606/4BBD7E8684EA8DB78525754E006C63A3?OpenDocument