Access remote MySQL database and update a table using javascript..? - javascript

I searched all over net for an hour i couldn't find a decent code for updating database using javascript. Can anyone just give me a reference please??

You can do that with Node.js
Here's a sample blog post from interwebz that shows how to do it:
http://www.giantflyingsaucer.com/blog/?p=2596

You need some kind of ServerSide Scripting (php, perl, cgi, java, etc.)
Take a look on this: JavaScript to update MySQL?

JavaScript on itself cannot query any DB for you, as it can work effectively only on the browser. To work with DB you can use use PHP , and use ajax to communicate using $.ajax or $.post methods. A simple search on this will get you references. In short you can use ajax to communicate with PHP script which will in turn query the DB for you.
To start you can take a look at this,
http://webcheatsheet.com/php/connect_mysql_database.php
Main thing to remember is Javascript will only affect your browser.
I hope this helps.
Regards

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Proper way for Javascript to read MySQL data through Java

I am now learning while developing my Java web app using JSF, and I was asked to study on using Javascript to create datatable/report dynamically and present it via .html/.xhtml. I am required to use Datatables.net to produce the table. The backend process is using Java instead of Php. Since it is so rare to use this method, I got no idea on this. My thought so far is:
MySQL data --convert to (processed by Java code)--> Json --read by-> Javascript
How do I process the SQL data? Can I directly run the query inside Java like:
SELECT
CONCAT("[",
GROUP_CONCAT(
CONCAT("{name:'",NAME,"'"),
CONCAT("email:'",email,"'"),
CONCAT(",address:'",address,"'}")
)
,"]") AS JSON FROM customer
If so, how do I parse the data out and make sure Javascript will read it?
The another way I found is to use some library like Gson or something similar.
Explanations or examples about this issue is much appreciated.

angularJS & web2py: calling python from ng/javascript/html

I'm using AngularJS (mainly the client side) and web2py (mainly the server side)together in an app.
I have an issue now.
At a point of the program, I use AngularJS to get some data from the client and these data are store in an AngularJS variable. I planed to use $http.post to submit these data to database directly, but it didn't work due to cross-orign problem.
Right now I'm trying to pass these data(they are in JSON format) back to web2py and let web2py insert these data to database.(similar to submitting a SQLFORM).
Is there anyway I could pass these data as an argument to an web2py function and invoke that function within javascript code?
Possible approach in my mind:
1) Since I could write python in html using {{}}, and I could write html in javascript, could I write python code within javascript using something like: document.write({{python code}}) ?
I tried this but whatever html I write it goes to a brand new html page. I also tried document.getElementById('testDiv').write("<p></p>"); But it doesn't work.
2)use ajax, I'm not familiar with ajax, any example will be really appreciated!
Any thoughts?
Thank you all!
ok so you got me lost for a second there, lets see if i got it right
1- angular as your frontend
2- python as your backend
3- you are rendering an html document in python and delivering it to the browser
4- since python template language uses {{}} as delimiter am assuming you changed the angulars delimiters too
either using ajax or reload you'll need to provide a python post handler script. that takes your data and makes the DB update. if this is going to be a pattern and you are going to be making AJAX CRUD operations, you should use angular resources ngResource if not a simple
$http.post(url,data).success(function(response){})
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$http#post
where url would be your form submission handler url.
if you where to use a form you'll need to set the target to an iframe hidden in your page and the response should a script tag that gets the scope pertinent to your controller and let him know the result of the operation. this is an old approach, but handy when it comes to send information to sites that don't allow CORS which by the way might be the solution to your problem, when storing data directly to your db, you might just need to enable CORS headers in your storage engine API and that should allow you to submit information even when coming from a different domain
After hours of struggles and countless google, here's my workaround solution:
Main problem: the data are stored in AngularJS but AngulatJS could not submit data to database through API due to cross-orign issue. But Web2py could submit data to database using sqlform.
My approach:
1.)When the user click the submit button, invoke 'ng-click="submitBtn()"'.
submitBtn() is a function of the ng-controller, which has access to the data.
2.)In submitBtn(), the function first write data into web2py's sqlform through
document.getElementById('inputId').value=$scope.data;
then the function click the sqlform submit button through
document.getElementById('submitBtn').click();
It took me a lot time to figure out those element ids of fields in web2py's auto-generated sqlform. The way to find them is using developers' inspect element tool in a browser and see the source code directly.
Hope this will help someone will face the same issue!

parsing jscript within sql server 2008

Is there a way to parse jscript which is stored in a server table. I am looking for something like eval(jscript function).
Well, using some hacks like this you can run managed code inside SQL server and upo that, use the JavaScriptSerializer class to deserialize the JSON objects. If you have JavaScript as a plain code, well, it would be funny If one was able to run that inside SQL :)

How to use qooxdoo with MySQL and PHP

I have a work assignment, and I don't have any alternative; I have to use the qooxdoo framework.
How can I do a query with MySQL and PHP using this framework? In the examples present in the site, all tables use random values or JSON values, but in this case, I need PHP.
I know that I can't use PHP code inside a JavaScript file, so is Ajax the unique solution?
How I can solve that?
You write a PHP RPC service which provides the data to your qooxdoo application. You can find more input on this in PHP RPC (qooxdoo documentation).
Another way is to create your own transport, for example, use AJAX to fetch JSONP.
See more info at http://manual.qooxdoo.org/1.3/pages/communication/remote_io.html

Command line URL fetch with JavaScript capabliity

I use curl, in php and httplib2 in python to fetch URL.
However, there are some pages that use JavaScript (AJAX) to retrieve the data after you have loaded the page and they just overwrite a specific section of the page afterward.
So, is there any command line utility that can handle JavaScript?
To know what I mean go to: monster.com and try searching for a job.
You'll see that the Ajax is getting the list of jobs afterward. So, if I wanted to pull in the jobs based on my keyword search, I would get the page with no jobs.
But via browser it works.
you can use PhantomJS
http://phantomjs.org
You can use it as below :
var page=require("webpage");
page.open("http://monster.com",function(status){
page.evaluate(function(){
/* your javascript code here
$.ajax("....",function(result){
phantom.exit(0);
}); */
});
});
Get FireBug and see the URL for that Ajax request. You may then use curl with that URL.
There are 2 ways to handle this. Write your screen scraper using a full browser based client like Webkit, or go to the actual page and find out what the AJAX requesting is doing and do request that directly. You then need to parse the results of course. Use firebug to help you out.
Check out this post for more info on the subject. The upvoted answer suggests using a test tool to drive a real browser.
What's a good tool to screen-scrape with Javascript support?
I think env.js can handle <script> elements. It runs in the Rhino JavaScript interpreter and has it's own XMLHttpRequest object, so you should be able to at least run the scripts manually (select all the <script> tags, get the .js file, and call eval) if it doesn't automatically run them. Be careful about running scripts you don't trust though, since they can use any Java classes.
I haven't played with it since John Resig's first version, so I don't know much about how to use it, but there's a discussion group on Google Groups.
Maybe you could try and use features of HtmlUnit in your own utility?
HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less browser for
Java programs". It models HTML
documents and provides an API that
allows you to invoke pages, fill out
forms, click links, etc... just like
you do in your "normal" browser.
It has fairly good JavaScript support
(which is constantly improving) and is
able to work even with quite complex
AJAX libraries, simulating either
Firefox or Internet Explorer depending
on the configuration you want to use.
It is typically used for testing
purposes or to retrieve information
from web sites.
Use LiveHttpHeaders a plug in for Firefox to see all URL details and then use the cURL with that url.
LiveHttpHeaders shows all information like type of method(post or get) and headers body etc.
it also show post or get parameters in headers
i think this may help you.

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