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Hi James,

Please send pictures to abidemi_adio@yahoo.com ASAP

Hi James,

Please send pictures to abidemi_adio@yahoo.com ASAP

Otoide,

Check www.adten.net/stock and see what I already have. Contact me on abidemi_adio@yahoo.com Or abidemi.adio@adten.org

ownedbyme,

For research purpose, could you please give me your website link, so that I can stream your content and see if you can actually do all you said?

I have data on Nigerian listed companies, check http://www.adten.net/Stock/index.aspx

I may release as web service for consumers if there is good justification.

You can YM me on abidemi _adio@yahoo.com. I am mostly online from 8.00pm - 2.00am Naija time

Good Job, thank you.

But one thing

If you click the submit button without typing the correct values on the image, the content of the datafield is not retained after generating new image value. Assuming  I am a user, and I have completed a form with over 20 textboxes, does it mean I will loose all I have entered because I made mistake while typing the image value?

@Webdezi

webdezzi:
@ Abidemi_A

I did not follow your link but i know that XMLHttpRequest is a javascript object that needs to be instantiated in order to connect

here is an abstraction that will create an xmlHTTPRequest object from different browsers

I need to correct you here, XMLHttpRequest is not a javascript object, it is a DOM API that can be accessed by Javascript and other web browser scripting languages to transfer XML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest , http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/)

webdezzi:
You see, i overheard some people talking, one said, "i wan buy gala", i guess the seller handed him a gala and the response was "No be that one, na 40 naira gala i wan buy"

I laughed, Gala is a brand name, and not a generic name (just like some call SUVs jeep, Mercedes jeep, toyota jeep, for christ sake jeep is a brand just like toyota)

the same thing is happening here
xmlHTTPRequest is a call Firefox, Opera and Safari uses to create it's "AJAX" object
just like IE requires window.external.AddFavorite() and firefox needs window.sidebar.addPanel() to do the same task, so also using AJAX requires that we create an object which in different browsers' case, needs different ways to be called
funny enough, IE requires activeXObject to be called and not xmlHTTPRequest, at times, this can be confusing following the fact that many are putting up tutorials on AJAX without fully understanding it.

I look at the object created when my function runs as an API that allows me to use the same feature provided by a web browser's native HTT Protocol.

I do not agree with what you said above, xmlHTTPRequest is DOM API, Microsoft implemented it in ealier version of I.E. as XMLHTTP which can be instanciated as activeX object, so the general name (base object) is xmlHTTPRequest.

If you have any supporting articles or docs against my argument, please let me know because they may help me in my current research work.

Here is the code

StringBuilder sUrl = new StringBuilder();
sUrl.Append("http://punchng.com/");

WebRequest oReq = WebRequest.Create(sUrl.ToString());
StreamReader sStream = new StreamReader(oReq.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
StringBuilder sOut = new StringBuilder();
sOut.Append(sStream.ReadToEnd());
sStream.Close();

string abid = sOut.ToString();
abid = Regex.Replace(abid, "target='pollwindow'", "";
abid = Regex.Replace(abid, "target='_blank'", "";
abid = Regex.Replace(abid, "target='_self'", "";
abid = Regex.Replace(abid, "href", " target='_blank' href";

Literal1.Text = abid;

On my HTML page I have this
<base href="http://punchng.com/" />
<asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server"></asp:Literal>

If you want to test for speed use this link http://adten.net/News/index2.aspx?tab=8

The first link I posted will take about x12 of the seconds that it is required to load the new link. Reason, I have 12 news sites that I am loading at the same time. Justification, you can navigate easily through the news sites without page reload until you are done with news section.

@Omnipotens,

It is possible, you can use regular expression to filter all links on the page, change the links values to other values that are directed to a frame on your page. I think this has legal implication , punch may sue you for circumventing the security they put in place to protect their content.

You will do the manipulation here

abid = Regex.Replace(abid, "href", " target='_blank' href";

If you need to make it work for research purpose, mail me at abidemi_adio@yahoo.com

@dhtml,
When I clicked on links from your solution I got Error 404. Also, I noticed that you hard coded ref to some images, what happens when the names or refs of the images are changed? I think you can overcome this problems by setting the base ref of your content block to Punch domain.

You can achieve this by streaming first page of punch website, convert the streamed content to string, then pass the string as HTML code see how i implemented it here http://adten.net/News/index.aspx?tab=8 if this is what you need let me know the code behind is less than 20 lines.

@Yawa

You asked a question

yawa-ti-de:
Without scrolling up (sorry, I am a bit lazy ), I will say that there is a post that suggested that making the solution JavaScript based would eliminate the postback issue but be more difficult to update. The same post then goes ahead to suggest an AJAX solution. Question: What does the "J" in AJAX mean? If it is what I think it means, doesn't this negate the issue of "difficult to update"? Just curious.

A javascript based solution was described above, where all values will be hard coded, it does not call values from database. I referred to it as plain javascript because the script block does not make use of any other technology. I described another solution (AJAX) where you can access database with XMLHttpRequest and Javascript, Ajax is not plain Javascript (pure javascript)  because it uses other technology which is XMLHttpRequest.

yawa-ti-de:
Again, rather than impress some folks with our theoretical knowledge, I think we need to get back on track and talk about the issue at hand which in my opinion, is pretty much solved at this point. Please, let's not start 2009 off with the "do you know who I am" attitude. At the end of the day, it doesn't get us anywhere. Thanks.

In my answer the only new thing I mentioned is XMLHttpRequest, without mentioning it, hw would i explain the difference between plain (ordinary, pure) javascript and AJAX where J stands for javascript. Also, in my definition of AJAX, I put the reference, just to show that it is not from me but another source

If others come to impress, I do not. I am here to learn and teach if you permit me. I rest my case.

@Yawa
(Asynchronous Javascript And Xml) Technique for dynamically updating web pages. AJAX is the term coined in February 2005 to describe a collection of technologies used to automatically update and manipulate the information on a web page while it is being viewed in a browser (ie without the user having to manually refresh the page). This allows developers to create more sophisticated web pages and applications without having to add to the native capabilities of the browser. A key component is the use of XMLHttpRequest (http://www.looselycoupled.com/glossary/AJAX).

Now to your Question

yawa-ti-de:
Without scrolling up (sorry, I am a bit lazy ), I will say that there is a post that suggested that making the solution JavaScript based would eliminate the postback issue but be more difficult to update. The same post then goes ahead to suggest an AJAX solution. Question: What does the "J" in AJAX mean? If it is what I think it means, doesn't this negate the issue of "difficult to update"? Just curious.

Plain Javascript does not use XMLHttpRequest, everything is based on client side. In this case, we want to access the database, so we need to communicate with the server, and we do not want to send the whole page to the sever, so what comes to mind? patial page submission using XMLHttpRequest, this is where you need AJAX and not ordinary javascript.

Example http://adten.net/property/propertysearch.aspx if you select state, values of local area will be generated without total page postback.

@webdezzi,

1
I finished from computer dept, falculty of Engineering in 1996, and now falculty of Engineering no longer exists, if I print my result now, what falculty will be displayed on it?

2

For every instance of web visit, a session is created. There are variables that are associated with each session, in my post, I reffered to the session variables and not session itself. I advise you read articles on Session Variables. From books and practical experience, I know they do affect performance.

@webdezzi,

Good solution, but you did not put two important points into consideration
1

webdezzi:
first, there has to be a table meant to hold faculties with unique ID field (lets call it faculti.id) to help you uniquely identify the faculties (auto incrementing faculti.id is best as it ensures that whenever you delete a faculty and add another, the id of the deleted row will not be available, that way, we can tell students who have that deleted faculty that the faculty no longer exist)

Your faculti.id field is a unique/key field in the falculty table, which has one-many relationship with the department table.  The department table has has one-many relationship with the student table. If you enable record delete on falculty table, what happens to all previous entries on related tables?. I think it will be better to create additional boolean field called status, when it is true, value will be available for selection, when false, value is not available for selection. With this, you can stop displaying falculty that are no more existing and at the same time keep all old related entries.

2.

davidt:
Actually, in my own case, what I wish to do is that: I have a form in which the user is required to select the number of text inputs he wishes to have and when the page gets reloaded, the user is presented with the number of text inputs he entered previously while the earlier information that the user entered in the form still remains there.

I would appreciate some help.

The user's previous entries must be kept after selecting the falculty. This means that selection of falculty should not cause postback, OR when there is postback,  previous entries must be retained.

The Javascript option will solve the problem without postback, but will be difficult to update as you explained. In your solution, you recommended using postback without explaining how previous entries can be retained - Answer you can retain previous entries by keeping the values in session variables and populate new page with the session variables values. This is not the best solution - Reason, (1) There will be too many session variables which affect performance (2) the whole page will be reloaded - increase network traffic.

My Solution: Use partial page submission with AJAX. With this, you can link the faculty dropdown with database table, after updating the dropdown, only department control will be updated without posting the whole page to the server.

@Logical, tomX

You guys are too much. Do you code with C#?

I am very sure that Seun posted this topic to attract traffic.

@lojik

The article is over 6 years, some of the points on which the writer based his argument upon are not applicable to what ASP.NET and PHP offer today

@abiola.kbr,

Thanks for your contribution, I have incorparated javascript module for picture animation under propertail details.

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Here is the solution


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Everything is FREE absolutely free. I know it is hard to believe but it is true.

Be the first to advertise for free and invite others. If you have any question kindly drop it under the topic 'Discuss all about adTen portal ' on the portal forum.

Thank you.

Hello All,

I just uploaded the property section of my Web Portal, kindly help review and test the functionalities of the package.

I am still working on other aspects of the portal, anybody that is interested in the project is highly welcome to be my partner/team mate.

If you have major contribution and good time for me, I crave your indulgence to post your contributions on the topic 'Discuss all about adTen portal' under the Portal Forum.



Here is the link:

http://adten.org/property/propertysearch.aspx

Hello All,

I just uploaded the property section of my Web Portal, kindly help review and test the functionalities of the package.

I am still working on other aspects of the portal, anybody that is interested in the project is highly welcome to be my partner/team mate.

If you have major contribution and good time for me, I crave your indulgence to post your contributions on the topic 'Discuss all about adTen portal' under the Portal Forum.



Here is the link:

http://adten.org/property/propertysearch.aspx

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@webdezzi,

no one is fighting. We are all learning.

@Yawa,

Could you please tell me the difference between Contact and feedback page?

And make reference to where they have been used according to your definition.

@Yawa-ti-de,

No disrespect please, if you are still asking for a link to contact form, it shows that you do not know how to implement contact and feedback page. There is nothing wrong in not having form on contact page and it is not limited to developers in Nigeria.

You can check the followoing link to one of the leading sites in UK and see how they have implemented contact and feedback page, hope that will give you better understanding of it.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/segments/odg_dhs_splitter_intel?c=uk&l=en&s=gen&ST=.del&dgc=ST&=5186&lid=121454

OmniPotens:
Hey, I'm following this thread and so is others. Can you please get back and be more serious. If you don't know what to do, you can explain the big deal between Feedback page and Contact us page.

Cheers!

Check

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-172133.0.html.

@Dual Core,

You are not the only one toasing, but we may be toasting for different things. I am toasting her for business, I don't know what you are toasting her for.

@Yawa,
The offer is being CSS and related issue moderator on my portal forum.

@Yawa,

Still expecting your final decision on my offer. Hope you will be online (Y!M) by 8.00pm Naija time.

@Yawa,

You did not see any form because you are always in a rush to see flaws in what others have done. If you click on any of the links on the feedback page you will see form.

Example : http://www.etisalat.ae/index.jsp?lang=en&type=content&currentid=8e8cef484523a010VgnVCM1000000a0a0a0a____&contentid=5bd93a00a06c5110VgnVCM1000000c24a8c0RCRD&parentid=f268800d1f52a010VgnVCM1000000a0a0a0a____

Lesson of the day : Always get to the root of the matter before passing judgement.

@Yawa

From your postings, it is obvious that you do not know the difference between feedback and contact page, even with all the explations given under your ealier related post  https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-172133.0.html.

Etisalat implemented Contact page - http://www.etisalat.ae/index.jsp?lang=en&type=channel&currentid=9139e15c0b56a010VgnVCM1000000a0a0a0a____&parentid=f268800d1f52a010VgnVCM1000000a0a0a0a____

as well as  feedback page http://www.etisalat.ae/index.jsp?lang=en&type=channel&currentid=8e8cef484523a010VgnVCM1000000a0a0a0a____&parentid=f268800d1f52a010VgnVCM1000000a0a0a0a____

Look at the way the two pages are structured and check my reply to your earlier post.

@poster,

Check this site, if there is any aspect of the site that you want to implement, let met know , I may be able to help you.

@CGKing, babanne,

I am on line and ready to do the installation for you anytime today (11/10/2008 ) , log on to Yahoo Messenger and invite me with this address abidemi_adio@yahoo.com

@babanne

I mean Yahoo Messenger . I am ready for you just halla me and I will spend the next 30 minutes installing the forum for you. It comes with WYSIWYG text editor and you can customise the look and feel as you desire.