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How to dynamically change the onclick handler

83 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:03:00 +0100

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Headline	How to dynamically change the onclick handler
Content	More related to just web development in general, but sometimes you might need to change the onclick event handler of an element. This can be a little tricky, but I find the best way to do this is:br /br /blockquotebr /element.onclick = function() {this_i
Date posted	2009-02-16 23:03:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-dynamically-change-onclick.html

Setting the access to the templates_c

80 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:35:00 +0100

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News id	80
Headline	Setting the access to the templates_c
Content	The templates_c folder is location of where the smarty tag templates are compiled to. And these templates are used to display the Xataface application. So it's important that end-users are able to read from this folder so that they are use the applicati
Date posted	2009-02-16 13:35:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-access-to-templatesc.html

How to programmatically edit the fields.ini attributes

81 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:43:00 +0100

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News id	81
Headline	How to programmatically edit the fields.ini attributes
Content	Sometimes the fields.ini doesn't have enough functionality for you to handle some features you need. In these cases, you will have to do it programmatically. Here is a short piece of code:br /br /blockquotebr /$table =amp; Dataface_Table::loadTable(#39;
Date posted	2009-02-09 21:43:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-programmatically-edit-fieldsini.html

How to change the label of the save button?

82 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:13:00 +0100

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Headline	How to change the label of the save button?
Content	Recently ran into an interesting request on how to change the label of the save button on the edit form to something else. While I don't believe there is a direct way to do this in Xataface, you can utilize a little workaround with the feature of "intern
Date posted	2009-02-06 16:13:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-change-label-of-save-button.html

Getting related records

67 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:38:00 +0100

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Headline	Getting related records
Content	One thing you'll want to do is to grab related records in Xataface. Say for example, you have an abstract record that belongs to a conference. In the relationships.ini file of your abstract table, you would include something like this:br /br /blockquote
Date posted	2008-12-16 15:38:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/12/getting-related-records.html

Xataface svn repository

68 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:43:00 +0100

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Headline	Xataface svn repository
Content	One good thing you should do if you are planning to develop an application with Xataface is to actually checkout the svn repository of Xataface. The most recent code for Xataface which includes bug fixes and features will be added to this repository. I
Date posted	2008-11-29 00:43:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/xataface-svn-repository.html

Application Versioning & Synchronization with Xataface

62 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:16:49 +0100

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Headline	Application Versioning & Synchronization with Xataface
Content	One of the more annoying challenges involved with managing production web applications is keeping the development and production versions in sync. Verson control systems such as Subversion and CVS make this task trivial for source code and file system c
Date posted	2008-11-26 17:16:49
Posted by	shannah
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Steve Hannah's Blog
Source url	http://www.sjhannah.com/blog/?p=144

Replacing Scriptaculous/Prototype with jQuery

63 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:34:24 +0100

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News id	63
Headline	Replacing Scriptaculous/Prototype with jQuery
Content	I have used Scriptaculous in the past to sprinkle little bits of UI magic into Xataface. Specifically, I have used it to add collapsible sections, sortable sections (via drag-and-drop), and sortable tables (also via drag and drop). These worked great!
Date posted	2008-11-25 17:34:24
Posted by	shannah
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Steve Hannah's Blog
Source url	http://www.sjhannah.com/blog/?p=143

Keeping your database up to date throughout development

69 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:16:00 +0100

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Headline	Keeping your database up to date throughout development
Content	A major development issue in any computer project that requires a database is keeping your database structure keep to date with the different versions of the code. Keep database up to date is always a difficult because you cannot simply put it under vers
Date posted	2008-11-23 01:16:00
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Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/keeping-your-database-up-to-date.html

SVN committing

70 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:01:00 +0100

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News id	70
Headline	SVN committing
Content	This isn't exactly a Xataface related issue, but I found myself continually forgetting about this that I thought it would be good to blog about this so I can remember. When I have ssh'ed onto the server and I need to do a svn commit, I get an error messa
Date posted	2008-11-23 00:01:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/svn-committing.html

Testing Xataface on IE6 when you have Vista

71 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:42:00 +0100

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Headline	Testing Xataface on IE6 when you have Vista
Content	So I ran into a pretty annoying problem the other day. I had to test a Xataface application on IE6 with Vista as my OS. Which basically meant I had IE7 preinstalled, and I couldn't install IE6. Ughh...annoying. I don't understand why people still use
Date posted	2008-11-16 18:42:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/testing-xataface-on-ie6-when-you-have.html

Adding some text when no block/slot exists

72 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:01:00 +0100

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News id	72
Headline	Adding some text when no block/slot exists
Content	Sometimes you need to add some text to a certain template, but Xataface doesn't have the specific block or slot to use. For example, say you wanted to include some text underneath the password field in the login page for Xataface. You can't do this with
Date posted	2008-11-12 18:01:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/adding-some-text-when-no-blockslot.html

Directly modifying a table's attributes

73 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:42:00 +0100

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News id	73
Headline	Directly modifying a table's attributes
Content	While using the fields.ini is a good way to set attributes such as widget:label, description, etc sometimes you need more control. This can be accomplished by loading the table in the code and then directly modifying the fields. For example:br /br /bloc
Date posted	2008-11-12 17:42:00
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/directly-modifying-tables-attributes.html

Using Xataface to create forms

74 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:46:00 +0100

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News id	74
Headline	Using Xataface to create forms
Content	You can leverage off the power of Xataface to create forms allowing users to submit data to your tables. Here is some code to allow you do that, I'll go into more explanation after:br /br /blockquotebr /$app =amp; Dataface_Application::getInstance();br /
Date posted	2008-11-07 20:46:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/using-xataface-to-create-forms.html

Using Xataface to search for NULL

75 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:59:00 +0100

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News id	75
Headline	Using Xataface to search for NULL
Content	If there is a row in a table that contains a NULL value, you can use Xataface to search specifically for that record but it's not as trivial as searching for NULL. You have to set it to an equal sign which will basically look for exact matches to nothing
Date posted	2008-11-07 14:59:00
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/using-xataface-to-search-for-null.html

Operation Aborted in IE:

65 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:03:39 +0100

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Headline	Operation Aborted in IE:
Content	Found this great IE blog article explaining the cryptic “Operation Aborted Error” in IE. Click Here. Another reminder of why I don’t use IE, but also why the fact that many people do use it makes my life as a developer miserable.
Date posted	2008-11-07 08:03:39
Posted by	shannah
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Steve Hannah's Blog
Source url	http://www.sjhannah.com/blog/?p=141

Secure Display

76 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:07:00 +0100

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News id	76
Headline	Secure Display
Content	If you are using Xataface as your backend management, and also as a front end (through the use of actions and templates) this can save you lots of time. However, sometimes you set permissions on records that you don't want users seeing if they are in the
Date posted	2008-11-07 00:07:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/secure-display.html

output cache

77 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:02:00 +0100

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News id	77
Headline	output cache
Content	One of the things you can do on a live xataface site is turn on caching to allow the server to just the information in RAM rather than continue to hit the database for information each time. You can do this by simply entering this in the conf.ini:br /br
Date posted	2008-11-07 00:02:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/11/output-cache.html

Setting a MD5 hash on a password field

58 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:41:00 +0100

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News id	58
Headline	Setting a MD5 hash on a password field
Content	In your users table, you might want to store the user's password as a MD5 hash. When xataface is authenticating users, you make to tell them to encrypt the password they enter so that it can be properly compared to the value in the database. To do this,
Date posted	2008-09-03 11:41:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/09/setting-md5-hash-on-password-field.html

Returning back to an old page

59 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:28:00 +0100

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News id	59
Headline	Returning back to an old page
Content	When you have a custom action, you need to be able to return back to the page you were on before your custom action. The best way to do this is to take the query that was sent to your action: $query =& $app->getQuery();
Date posted	2008-08-14 22:28:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/08/returning-back-to-old-page.html

Displaying Xataface record values

33 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:41:00 +0100

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News id	33
Headline	Displaying Xataface record values
Content	Taking a look at the Xataface Record API presents you with several techniques to display the values of the record. At the lowest level, there is a function called val and can be called like this (assuming $rec is a Xataface record)
Date posted	2008-08-02 14:41:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/08/displaying-xataface-record-values.html

Internet Media Manager

23 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:46:03 +0100

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Headline	Internet Media Manager
Content	I was tired of having to resize my images before uploading them to the web. I also wanted to be able to host more video on my website in a simple way. So I created an application to manage and serve all of my videos and images - Internet Media Manager.
Date posted	2008-08-02 05:46:03
Posted by	shannah
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Steve Hannah's Blog
Source url	http://www.sjhannah.com/blog/?p=130

Xataface: Setting a logo for a xataface record

34 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:40:00 +0100

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News id	34
Headline	Xataface: Setting a logo for a xataface record
Content	When you go into the details view of a record, in addition to the all the different values in the database about the record, you can also specify a logo for that record and this logo will appear in the top left corner of the record. You should
Date posted	2008-07-31 11:40:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/07/xataface-setting-logo-for-xataface.html

Using smarty tags in a template

36 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:07:00 +0100

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Headline	Using smarty tags in a template
Content	This is a tutorial to show how to specify some variables in a php class and then use them in the smarty template. Here is the situation: There is a below_header.html file needs to have a drop down menu which lists a bunch of offering_types as a classifi
Date posted	2008-07-08 22:07:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/07/using-smarty-tags-in-template.html

Displaying actions in a html select object

37 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:36:00 +0100

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Headline	Displaying actions in a html select object
Content	Here is an interesting example of how to use actions in an html select from object. In our actions.ini file (delegate or conf.ini) we have a set of actions each with the category attribute set to bd_company_filters. Like this:
Date posted	2008-06-26 17:36:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/06/displaying-actions-in-html-select.html

Using the df_display() function

38 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:46:00 +0100

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Headline	Using the df_display() function
Content	You can use the function df_display() to actually include html files (or I think any other file) in your templates folder that can then be displayed in your delegate class functions. For example, function block__before_header
Date posted	2008-06-07 15:46:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/06/including-templates-at-top.html

Smarty Tags

39 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:13:00 +0100

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Headline	Smarty Tags
Content	So Xataface employs smarty templates throughout its application to apply its styles and stuff. I am not 100% sure how it works, but there are list of ENV variables which are available to be used throughout any template file in xataface. These ENV varia
Date posted	2008-06-05 15:13:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
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Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/06/smarty-tags.html

Changing preferences in the conf.ini file

40 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:17:00 +0100

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Headline	Changing preferences in the conf.ini file
Content	The conf.ini file there is a section called [_pref] which you can use set different preferences through the application. For example, show_search = 0 will turn off search. How this works is that the various template files the application uses has specia
Date posted	2008-06-04 02:17:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/06/changing-preferences-in-confini-file.html

Changing the default template for list view

41 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:14:00 +0100

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News id	41
Headline	Changing the default template for list view
Content	You can actually change the default template list view (or maybe any other template) by doing something really simply. For example, we can use the Dataface_List_View_summary.html file (it's in the Dataface/templates folder) to replace our normal view of
Date posted	2008-06-04 02:14:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/06/changing-default-template-for-list-view.html

The debug option

42 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:36:00 +0100

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News id	42
Headline	The debug option
Content	You have the option of turning on debug = 1 in the conf.ini file in the application folder of a Xataface application. What this will do is basically display all the possible blocks you can insert code/templates into. Slots will not be display
Date posted	2008-06-04 01:36:00
Posted by	noreply@blogger.com (Fong Chun Chan)
Status	Approved
Categories	Blog
Source id	Fong's Blog
Source url	http://fongxataface.blogspot.com/2008/06/debug-option.html