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I have an application that I need to deploy that is a mix of pure PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX. It runs flawlessly on all machines when called in a browser. Unfortunately, I also need to deploy this application to a machine that won't be able to run a browser.
Just running the file using PHP will output the resulting file, but does not execute any of the Javascript.
What are my options to get this task running? The machine will have access to xampp, but not to a browser.
Edit: the application grabs data from MSSQL, uses Javascript to turn that data into charts, uses an AJAX call to save those files to disk, and then calls another PHP script to mail a copy of the resulting files.

It depends on what your exact Javascript needs are, but unfortunately, if your application truly depends on a browser (and can't be ported to something more appropriate for the constraint), you will need to "fake" the browser somehow. Here are a few options.
PhantomJS is basically a headless Webkit engine (think Chrome or Safari).
HtmlUnit for a Java based solution, supported/developed by Mozilla
Other rabbit holes (Wikipedia/Headless Browser)
NodeJS offers a non-browser, headless, Javascript specific option, but will require your code to be more robust and generic than many code bases initially are when originally coded for browsers.

Writing data to a local file using HTML5 and Javascript in Chrome

I have created an interactive quiz using html and javascript which will be run on a touchscreen at an event and I need to write the results to a local csv file (so no internet connection). It needs to write to an already existing file, so it cannot be done where the data is stored locally and a download link is generated through the browser.
How would I go about doing this? All methods I have found are either unreliable or no longer supported. The browser I am using is Chrome, so it does not need to be cross-browser compatible.
Can anybody help or point me in the right direction please?

Install a web server.
Point the browser at http://localhost.
Send the data to the server using Ajax or a form submission.
Process the data (including storing it in a file) using the server side language of your choice.

When javascript is used only in the client-side cannot write data as you want.
Follow the #Quentin recommendation about install some web server, as apache using php for instance(It is pretty straight forward!). I also recommend you to create restFull methods to do it with jquery calls from the client side, it is easy to find many examples in the internet and quicky...
If you want something more easy you could work with html post using forms in php, the most easy way to do it.

Not Updating javascript file

I am working on ASP.NET MVC4 Project. When i am updating JavaScript file and run my project in browsers. New changes do not reflected on page Same thing happen when I am trying on IIS Server. For that every time I have to remove browser history then it reflects but this is not correct way after deployment
Is there any other way for that?
Please guide me Thanks in advance

Your problem would be:
Browser Caching JavaScript
Check whether the browser is caching the javascript. To do it, check the header of the javascript on the browser for the attribute Cache-Control in the browser. Case yes, configure Cache-Control to no-cache on the project. Disable cache only in your development environment.
Visual Studio or IIS not reloading the javascripts
Check whether the Visual Studio or IIS are reloading your entire project after the deploy.
Suggestions to solve your problem:
Solutions to solve this problem is version the javascript.
Using different names
One way to ensure that the user will receive a fresh version of javascript is versioning the filename.
Instead of use only the name, you can concatenate a version number to the javascript.
Example:
www.example.com/script.8238823.js
www.example.com/script.3434342.js
This urls represent different paths and the browser will update.
Using query string
Another way is use a query string such v= + version.
The version can be a MD5 hash, or the timestamps or the size in bytes of the file.
Example:
www.example.com/script.js?v=999990
www.example.com/script.js?v=129
This force the browser to cache the file, and reload when the version of v, change.
I don't use ASP.NET, but I think that exists solutions for this.

I saw similar answers here which I think would help you. Specifically, the suggestion of adding a query parameter to the end of the URL which references your JavaScript file, so you can "version" them.

Not sure if this is the same problem. For my ASP.NET MVC4 project I had an Azure database and web app. The reason the javascript file was not updating was because the connection to the database had lapsed. Refreshing in Server Explorer solved the issue / reestablishing the connection with a new login fixed the issue.
Also make sure the way you are publishing has the correct database admin login and connection.

Are you using the MVC Bundle? By using bundle and js inclusion as #Scripts.Render("file name used in the bundle config file") should not sustain cache.

Stress testing a JAvascript file which only runs in the browser

I need to run a Javascript file for a relatively long time(maybe about 5 weeks or so at one time), without it stopping or being interrupted. Currently the script is a client side script which connects to the server and receives data via Sockjs. There is no HTMl/GUI. There is only some computation.
I need to make sure the client always stays connected to the server all the time. I need to be able to run some script from the command line which is like forever.js. I have tried porting the javascript to node.js but it doesnt work. It only works in the browser. I have tried reading the file and doing an eval but none of it works. Are there any other options open for me? I have tried phantomJS but that doesnt work too. I have looked at How can I use a javascript library on the server side of a NodeJS app when it was designed to run on the client? and Load "Vanilla" Javascript Libraries into Node.js but I reapeatedly get SockJS is not defined. I guess the problem lies deep in the library and is not a simple fix.
Could anyone give me some pointers? What are my other options? Whats the best way to test a client javascript library which seems to work only on the browser?
This is the repo I am using :
https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client
It doesnt seems to be running on node. I tried to replace the script tag with require, and download the sock.js into a separate file and use it.

There are "headless" browser modules available. These produce a virtual browser environment that can be programatically controlled. The primary use of these is to do unit/integration testing of browser side code without actually running a browser:
Phantomjs
Slimerjs
These might fit your needs. You can create a nodejs script that will load the said code in a virtual browser page.

Converting web2py based web-app into native app using Appcelerator, is it easy? possible?

Here is my problem:
Customer wants my current web application as a Desktop, possibly Executable but without browser for the Client part.
I looked into 3 of following :
Qooxdoo - Needs browser
Adobe Air - Needs plugin and Runtime
Appcelerator - Most interesting , builds into Native Client
Here are the main questions:
Client side:
What i have read on appcelerator is it builds things written in html and javascript
into native executable, so what i have already written (HTML + Jquery + Jquery UI + CSS) can be built into Native Windows / Linux / IOS executables without changes to current code ?
Server side:
No problem as it returms html and json and decided to keep running on server. But wondering how offline contents work.

I'm not sure this will actually work. From what I understand, titanium appcelerator provides a framework primarily for you to create applications on the iOS and Android platforms. I did see some things about the Desktop apps, but nothing about the application being automagically created from the source when your backend code is python (and web2py to boot).
I think it might be impossible to just drop your web2py app in and get a final product. For one, how will Appcelerator know that a given URL corresponds to a given controller and function? How will it perform searches on objects in your database? Do you expect it to read the DAL(...) connection string and just connect?
If you don't do ANY server-side processing, and don't use ANY datasources except for JSON, then maybe this would work. Maybe. But I highly doubt it will be automatic, or even all that easy.
It seems to me that you would have to hit every page and save the pages as html to a disc, and then drop the outputted HTML/CSS/JS markup into Titanium. But that means that if you ARE processing forms or searches, or doing anything interesting in the controllers, the titanium application will not have anything to process the server-side backend stuff.
That being said, titanium does work with php code, but not perfectly, And I see issues when using frameworks as opposed to raw php.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkatron/4011561849/
It didn't work that great, regardless. Titanium Desktop does still support PHP though, but developing an app with a server-side framework like CI is basically not going to work.
There was also something in the docs about processing python code, but all I saw was that you can place python in the "client" end of the HTML using a script tag as such:
<script type='text/python'>
# ... python code ?
</script>
(ref: http://developer.appcelerator.com/doc/desktop/python )
But that's not going to help with a web2py app.
IN SHORT -- I advise you download the app and create a hello world project. Then follow a tutorial on migrating or converting your application to Titanium. You'll probably have to rework a lot of things, and I'm not sure how you'd get the execution environment required for web2py, so you might have to rework some of the basic GLUON code which web2py is built on.
Sorry :(
You can, however, probably find a way to create a Java application that includes a copy of (a) rocket webserver, (b) python 2.5 or greater interpreter (c) web2py framework, (d) web2py application and package all this in such a way that it runs inside your java application (which will run on any platform) and shows an HTML view to the enduser. Then you could maintain it as a web2py app and just copy the app to your java bundle. I'm not sure if that's any easier in the end, but it looks like you'll either have to port to Titanium or Wrap with Java (or another language suitable platform-agnostic language).