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How can I generate an image on my website based on user text input?

The last time I asked this question it was merged with another inaccurate question. To clarify, I want to have the website generate a brand new, consolidated image. Not overlay one element on another, but actually create one cohesive .png.
The project I'm working on is a website that will generate an image based on book quotes. I have a series of input fields (Your name, Author, Book, Quote) and I want the user's input to be edited onto an image. The images are not uploaded by the user (it's randomly selected from a pre-determined list).
The next step of this project would be to automatically post the output image to social media, but I'm just trying to figure out how to process the image.
I'm new to web design, so my knowledge up to this point has been gained through Reddit and w3schools (amazing resource).
Something similar to the output I'm looking for: Example

Not exactly a direct answer, but you could look at Javascript and HTML5 Canvas to achieve this.
Example: https://chenmu10.github.io/memeGenerator/
You can also download the demo code at https://www.cssscript.com/responsive-meme-generator/ and check it out.
FYI I am not the owner of this project.

modifying HTML page "on the fly"

I looked at "Generating HTML Page on the fly" on this website, but most of it was over my head.
I have a 2 part question that I would like assistance with please.
I want to fill a narrow vertical container, <div id=”counter”> with the numbers 1 .. <xx>.
<xx> is determined by the record count of a database, filtered “on-the-fly”, by the user choosing a category (no problem there – I have an SQL background)
Eg. Category1: 1 .. 200
Category2: 1 .. 6
These numbers could change over time, as I want to allow users to add content to the database (vetted of course).
I have viewed a number of website source code pages (of similar ideas eg. Surgicalexam.com), but they have all been hard-coded and are distinct pages per category.
I have created a small website of a similar nature to that, hard-coding all the images and links, but I am looking at 3000+ images (as a starting point here), and they differ per page.
I have created this scenario many times in stand-alone apps and from past experience, I thought perhaps, I could create a javascript routine which would use a loop to
• print the numbers to the <div> using the getelementbyID ( ).
• Fill an array with the record number, a title and an image link.
Question 1: Is this possible or am I beating a “dead horse”?
If it is possible, any suggestions would be gratefully accepted.
Part 2:
My current idea is that, as the user hovers the mouse over any number, a mouseover ( ) event will occur that will read the appropriate array record and display the <title> as a tool-tip-text.
If the user clicks the number, a function (I have yet to write) will read the appropriate array record and attach the image link to an <a> tag, and subsequently display the appropriate image to the screen.
Question 2: repeat of question 1.

I have viewed a number of website source code pages (of similar ideas eg. Surgicalexam.com), but they have all been hard-coded and are distinct pages per category.
Why are you so sure about that? You can't see php-code, because it is executed on the server. There is no way to know if it was hardcoded or by php
Answer:
It is possible.
If I understand this correctly, you want to read some data from a database and if the user clicks / hovers something, you want to load more data?
You have to splitt this into two things:
Load data with PHP from the db (Server side)
If you want a live, visual feedback you need JavaScript (and/or CSS3) to do changes. (Client side)
One possible solution is to create a API with php (maybe REST-like) and then call that api with JavaScript.
You could also do everything with PHP but this will require a reload of the website on every click. PHP cannot do changes On-The-Fly.
First of all you should learn the basics about web development.
And most important: If you decide to learn Web-Programming: learn about security, too. For example things like Cross Site Scripting and SQL-Injection. Never trust data coming from a client (e.g. JavaScript)!

Oracle APEX: Call stored procedure from javascript

I need some help with oracle apex. The thing which I want to do is the following:
I have table with some data about people. So each row describes exactly one human. And I want to show some more information about certain human. For example, list of shops he or she has visited. Such data provided by other tables.
I see it in this way: right click on table with people on certain row -> select option (what kind of info to show) -> execute stored procedure and show new page with data table (e.g. list of shops). But how can I implement it?
I've already found this plugin. Now I can execute some JavaScript function after right-click. But how can I execute stored procedure and show new page?
I'm new in apex, any help would be appreciated.

You're trying to reinvent the wheel. You're new to apex. Have you taken a good look at the documentation?
Start out where everyone else has to start: at the beginning. Report + form. Column links.
There is ample help available to someone new to apex.
The 2-day developer guide, running you through some of the
basics of apex and a good familiarization.
Get a workspace at apex.oracle.com
Each workspace starts with the sample database application, based on
products and customers. You can view and edit this application and
thus you can glean plenty of information from it.
Furthermore, there are the packaged applications, many of which offer
good basic solutions to common situations. Again, you can glean a lot
of information on them, and they are even editable after you unlocked
them.
After you are familiar with the basics, you can look further ahead. What you are asking is simply too much for someone new to the matter. You even want to implement a jQuery plugin straight away. You're talking ajax. It's great if you know those subjects and they'll be of plenty of value to you, but it just seems you don't even know how to present and fetch your data.
A good start would be to make a report and a form. In the form you can then add some classic (or an interactive) report(s) to represent associated data.

It's possible. First of all, assume that each row contains unique identifier ID. You have to add hidden item to the page which would contain additional info about certain row. Let's name it P1_ID. Then add the following JavaScript code to page which contains initial data (in example from question, page with table with information about people):
function TestFunction(action, el, pos) {
var id = $(el).children('td[headers="ID"]').text();
var href = 'f?p={APPLICATION ID}:{PAGE_NUMBER}:&SESSION.::::P2_ID:'+id;
window.location = href
}
Function name should match name in plugin settings. Example: link
Replace APPLICATION_ID and PAGE_NUMBER with actual values according to application. PAGE_NUMBER is the page number which contains additional info about row.
Then you can add some reports to the page with additional info and use ID parameter to select information about certain row.
The only problem is that plugin mentioned in question stop working after table refreshing. For example, if we filter data in table then no menu on right click will be shown. I don't know how to fix it for now. Any ideas?

How to prepopulate few fields in a form, in a survey

I have a share point survey. When we responding to the survey, as we know, it will open NewForm.aspx. this page contains a ListFormWebpart in which questions from survey list will be displayed.
Now, i need to add few labels before the questions and these label values should be prepopulated from query string. What i am trying to achieve from this is, i wll created a link
with some values in query string and send to specific users. different users might have different values in query string. Whenever they click on the link, it should open the survey with prepopulated label values along with questions in list.
I am not sure, how to do it. I have tried to add some html control to web part(using share point designer) and through JavaScript i have tried to set query string values. Then i tried to put asp controls and trued. it didn't work. I am trying since last 2 days. No progress. I am using SharePoint 2003, WSS2.0
Can anybody, please help me to implement this solution.

You may find it easier to create a webpart with a custom form that enters data into the survey list.
The survey lists are useful as they are quite flexible, but your solution will likely make it hard to change your list in future. That means that a webpart specific for this survey may be a valid design decision for you.
An issue with your current implementation is that passing values specific to different users through the query string does not give you any guarantee that enterprising users will not change those values.
This may not really be an issue depending on your situation, but a custom control will allow you to query the current user and make decisions that way.

I have written some Java Script for reading query string, parsing and assigning values to controls based on their ControlID. I have used Content Editor Web Part to add this JavaScript to the Existing Survey page. Then this script has done job of prepopulating the fields.

How to create an N:N relation editor in web page?

I have to create a small "who does what" web application for incoming letter routing:
there is a relatively long list (about 600 items) of employees;
there is a short list (about 5 items) of tasks;
when assigning a task to an employee, due date must be specified;
As a result, i need a list (sequence of items matters in this case, since the first employee in the list is considered the "main responsible person"):
John Smith - write a response letter - 20.01.2010
Frederica Minoso - review the incoming letter - 18.01.2010
Robert Geer - review the incoming letter - 18.01.2010
If we had, say, 10 employees, the design would be quite easy - a drop-down list of employees, a drop-down list of tasks, a date picker for due date, a "Add to list button"
Like this alt text http://naivist.net/tmp/layout.jpg
And of course, I would add a result list with "move up"/"move down" buttons besides it.
However, a drop-down list of 600 items is obviously too much; this means that some user searching by name, surname, department must take place.
I am skilled enough to technically create the application (JavaScript, jQuery and ajax requests being my friends), but the trouble is - how to design the interface of the web form so that the users would understand what exactly they are doing? How to lay out the items in form? What to show in the beginning, what to hide?
Maybe there are there some modern UI form patterns I could use here? For instance, maybe a text box where user can type in and auto-suggest with closest matches drops out?
Maybe some draggable/droppable pattern can be applied (for instance, after you have entered user's name, you drop it on an appropriate task)? How easily do users typically adopt to such non-standard interfaces?
To state a question - how do people typically solve this kind of data input problems? Have you seen good examples of this somewhere on the web? Tell me, because I can't think of any right now.
Sorry, there are many questions and many of them are discussable. Should I mark it as "community wiki"?

As soon as I saw the problem, I thought AutoComplete. Since you thought the same, it is probably the obvious solution to the problem. The "To" field of emails has the same issue - how to select that one person from 1,000s of contacts.
Yahoo has some good accessibility considerations to be sure that the AutoComplete field works in a manner that is obvious and consistent with typical behavior.
Since the task contains 5 items, drop downs are acceptable. The recommended upper limit for drop downs is 7 items, so you are within the limit. One suggestion would be to end the tasks with "by" or "on" so that the line reads like a sentence - John Doe writes a response letter on 22/01/2010. Also, including a little visual aid in the drop down could increase conprehension in some situations.

To begin with with, I'm not sure I agree with the non-standard interface part. I suppose it depends on who the users actually are, but I would definitely say that that kind of text box/auto search functionality is becoming very standard from airline booking forms to search engines.
About the selection method, I would go for the text box method, so that when a user types in text a search starts the results of which are displayed in a drop down. The search should of course search both surnames and first names with some kind of intelligent regex at least.
On top of that I would still add a selection field, maybe not a drop down but perhaps a list box that contains all the employees, possibly with options to order the names by surname or first. This would be for those who don't know the spelling of a persons name, or can't quite remember the name.
Otherwise the layout you have there seems to work for me. I wouldn't play around with dragging and dropping anything. This of course creates a nice feeling to it, but is way more unclear on what should be done to assign the tasks. If you find yourself writing instructions on how to use the thing then you've gone overboard.
The other thing that I thought of would be to have an appleish menu where you have an empty list at first and when you click on the list, the input fields appear. The problem with this is that since the UI doesn't have indication on what you should do to add stuff to the list, people are easily left baffled.