I need to build a website which will be viewed inside a FileMaker Pro 11 Web Viewer. The URL will be initially set by FileMaker. After which the user may change the content of the page, generating new data. The idea is to retrieve the new data back into FileMaker.
How should the website output data for FileMaker to retrieve? Can FileMaker A) read parameters from the URL after it has changed, or B) read in the entire page as XML, then parse the XML and extract the data (Although I'm hoping for an easier solution than this).
My perspective in this matter is mainly as a web developer.
You can create a button that will "get" the contents of the web view via the GetLayoutObjectAttribute function.
First, give the web view object a name.
Next, create a script that sets a field or variable using:
GetLayoutObjectAttribute(objectName;"source") -- returns the URL of the object
GetLayoutObjectAttribute(objectName;"content") -- returns the current content of the object (html, xml, etc.)
Now create a button which calls the newly created script.
if you're going to parse xml, take a look at http://www.briandunning.com/cf/1 for a function to simplify parsing.
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I want to load a new template page with data inserted via the previous call.
I have a list of items generated and they link to the general item page but without php all is lost.
I was thinking about using a href="page.html#itemid" then finding the item by querying the url.
Is this overthinking it? Any easier ways to do it?
I am assuming that on the current page, you have used AJAX to load all the data you need to display on the new template page, correct?
I can think of multiple ways to do this. It just depends on the nature of your data:
Have a popup instead:
You could have the new template page be a popup (instead of a real, separate page). Grey out the main page's content (via a darker, half transparent overlay) and then have this new popup div display the data you want. This is typically used on sites that want you to sign up for their newsletter, etc.
Pass the data via URL:
If you have very small amounts of data and it isn't sensitive data, you can just pass it through the parameters. Let's say page.html is the new page template you want to populate the data with. Then just have the link on the current page be page.html?itemid=123¶m2=Hi or something like that. Then, on page.html, make sure you have JS to read the parameters from the URL and display the data.
Pass the data via cookie:
Otherwise, you might just want to use JS cookies. Especially if you have a medium or larger amount of data. Store the data loaded from AJAX into cookies. If you are expecting the user to open multiple page.html templates at the same time, you might want to use an identifier and pass it to each one, such as page.html?itemid=1 and page.html?itemid=2 etc. Then have that page.html's JS look up the appropriate cookie based on the URL's parameter id.
Do be careful and use best practices if handling sensitive data.
In my textbook the URL http://services.faa.gov/airport/status/SFO?format=application/JSON was provided. That link points to a page that provides the content of the original page in JSON format. I want to format another webpage's content into JSON so I tried copying the method used, (Also the link my professor provided for an assignment uses the same format) and I get nothing. http://www.programmableweb.com/apitag/weather?format=application/JSON Clicking the link from here leads to a search of the website via a search engine. Copy pasting that exact same link just takes you to the actual webpage. My question is, why cant I just append ?format=application/JSON to any url for the JSON format of the webpage?
If it matters I'm trying to get JSON data to display via a Chrome extension.
My question is, why cant I just append ?format=application/JSON to any url for the JSON format of the webpage?
Because a URL is just data, and there is nothing standard about a query string parameter called "format". The server has to be designed to give you JSON before it can or will do that.
That particular website simply provides a feature where you can get the same data in an alternate format such as JSON. Not all websites provide features like that, and not all of them implement it with the same URL parameter. Some sites may have URLs ending with .html be HTML pages and ones ending with .json provide the same info in JSON. Others might provide a separate API. You might check that website to see if it has a "developers" section that gives information on their API, if they have one.
I'm building an ASP.NET MVC 4 website that needs to be available offline (HTML 5 manifests/caching), so I will be unable to take advantage of server side HTML generation.
Right now, I just have generic/cacheable HTML on the View (.cshtml) and I'm making jQuery AJAX calls on document ready to load the data from the server and using mustache.js to generate the HTML.
Being constrained to doing HTML generation only in the client side, I'm unable to use Url.RouteUrl to generate links and also constrained to having to parse the current URL manually when navigating to a details page, and using the Id (or whatever the parameter is) to make the AJAX call to retrieve the information for the specific record that I need.
Since I'm still using MVC URL Routing (and would like to keep using it) to return the corresponding View (as in, http://localhost:27954/Route/Test2/7?mytext=hellow), I'll need a javascript or jQuery function to both be able to parse URL's and retrieve the value for a given querystring parameter, and ideally another method to generate URLs.
Since I'm obviously not the first person in this situation, I was wondering if anyone had any proven methods already that they could share, or any recommendations.
Thanks!
I need to get some data from a json file stored at another server than my own. I've received the url of the file but have to "anonymize" it below, the url is exactly as below but with a different domain.
http://api.somedomain.com/v1/26963723e61eae69cefd/companies/5565592010/related-articles.json?languages=nor&per_page=10&page=2
Now I want to render the data in that file into a list or table structure in my html file, preferably after the page has loaded. If jQuery can be used for this then that would be great otherwise regular javascript will do.
Unless someone can toss up a solution I'd be happy to take pointers on where to turn to learn about how this can be done.
My extension use content-scripts to grab data from some pages.
But, sometimes users use Google Translate on the page and I need original data.
How can I get it? The content-script grabs translated data.
To get the original (untranslated) version:
Get its address from the translate-address input:
Load that address in a hidden iframe.
Grab the data you want from your new hidden iframe using the usual methods for dealing with iframes in Google-Chrome extensions.
If the translated page has been modified by AJAX, the AJAX additions aren't available in the "Original" version, but Google-translate doesn't translate these either (for now) -- so just grab the AJAXed changes directly, from the translated-page iframe.