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I've been looking at some ready made login classes in PHP and noticed many of them offer multiple storage capabilities
Such LDAP, SQL, Flatfile, WebService, etc
My question is this...
Why would anyone want to use anything other than a database...especially a text file...it's almost pathetic security...
I suppose if your server didn't support databases you might have to resort to textfile, but then...your web site wouldn't be that dynamic, so as to require any kind of authentication anyways...???
Just curious as to what your opinions are, on this subject?
It's frustrating being a genius and living the life of a moron!!!
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It is almost like you work for my company. We are currently tearing out our entire authorization scheme and migrating to ldap auth. instead. (I say "we" as if the rest of the guys in my department are actually doing anything. I'm the one doing it. I digress...)
The reason other authorization schemes exisit is because many web servers do not have access to better user data. If you have a hosted site, for example, your web server is on a completely different network from your domain controller, which is most likely behind a firewall as well. Unless you are gutsy enough to open up a port on your firewall allowing public access to your Active Directory, you can't use LDAP to authorize users on a remotely hosted web server.
As for databases, you hit the nail on the head when you said not all servers have database access. You can do an externally hosted database, but some people don't feel like putting in that time and effort.
Text files: I've used HTAccess. It works. It sucks, but it works. The downside to it is that you have decentralized user data. The upside is that the passwords are encrypted pretty well. Then there are people who use unencrypted text files. They should not be working in IT.
-Later
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I need to use the following HTML code in VB.NET:
Can anybody show me how I can emulate a "click" for the above code inside VB.NET?
Here is a bit more if needed:
The above code is an "Add To Cart" button for an HTML page that interacts with www.cartmanager.net - I have an ASP.NET page with a datagrid and one of the columns in the datagrid is an "Add To Cart" button. When the datagrid's "Add To Cart" button is pressed I need to emulate the HTML "Add To Cart" button beng pressed.
Thank you,
Mike
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I assume you are talking about a page with two different forms. Do you have control over the code in both forms or is one on somebody else's site?
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Yes, when the following button is clicked you are brought to another page:
<form method=POST action="https://www.cartmanager.net/cgi-bin/cart.cgi">
<input type=hidden name=additem value="...">
<input type=submit value="Add To Cart">
</form>
I am redesigning the page in ASP.NET and I need to be able to emulate this button click from within VB.NET somehow after validating certain information. The user will no longer be clicking this button directly.
Thank you,
Mike
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What you could do then is have the new button run a javascript which clicks the old button. Something like this:
<form method=POST action="https://www.cartmanager.net/cgi-bin/cart.cgi">
<input type=hidden name=additem value="...">
<input type=button onClick=clickOldButton() value="Add To Cart">
</form>
<script>
function clickOldButton(){
document.oldformname.submit()
}
</script>
You would just need to name the existing form and use that name in the script as well.
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Is it possible to use Session Variables in a page that will be called using XMLHTTP?
I thought this was possible but what appears to be happening is that the session is being read the first time the page is accessed/used but then this value is 'cached' (doesn't seem to be getting updated when the session changes and the same page is called by XMLHTTP again) for a different case.
Calling the page as below
var objxmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
objxmlhttp.Open("GET", sURL, false);
objxmlhttp.Send('<xml>xml');
var data = objxmlhttp.responseText;
where the sURL page contains several session variables than can change.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated and apologies for any vagueness but I'm beginning to hyper-ventilate 
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Hi again,
The brown bag has been put down as this code was added to fix the problem for caching!
Response.CacheControl = "no-cache"
Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "no-cache"
Response.Expires = 0
Response.CacheControl = "private"
Cheers 
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Hi all,
this is my first post here so please do not flame if i don't hit the right words 
100 days is a german based software company. a customer of ours wants a installable application that captures a certain keystroke (normal key, no ALT, CTRL or so) if it is without focus on an entry field. they want to call a certain web-url if the keystroke is detected.
i am sure this can be implemented. but i haven't done any IE or Firefox plugins so far.
can anyone tell me, how much effort that would be and who could help me there?
thanks,
gaylord aulke
- 100 days software projects -
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firefox's extension mechanism is very powerful, and is actually a combination of CSS and JavaScript, since it's tied into their whole XUL system. i'm sure that if you looked at some of the extensions on http://update.mozilla.org/[^], you could probably see how to do what you want to do.
those .xpi files are in fact just a simple zip file, with the relevant bits and bobs inside. i think there is also some sort of howto on writing extensions. i'm sure google will gladly help you out there .
--
Raoul Snyman
Saturn Laboratories
e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za
web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/
linux user: #333298
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Thanks for the information. I have already found some interesting examples. Unfortunately IE still has the biggest market share in browsers. So i have to provide a solution for IE, too. This propably has to be implemented in C, right? Anybody who can do such a thing for us? (We will also pay
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G. Aulke wrote:
This propably has to be implemented in C, right?
um, i'm not sure, but probably using the notably insecure activex. you can probably also find info about toolbars in ie via google...
--
Raoul Snyman
Saturn Laboratories
e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za
web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/
blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/
linux user: #333298
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I'm a beginner I'm afraid but from what I've read I think that it should be possible to develop a simple table with just 3 rows and 1 column where the header and footer remain static but the contents of the middle row can be scrolled. Can anyone help me or recommend a good (simple) book?
Steve
http://www.ukselfhelp.info
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Try experimenting with the TBODY, TFOOT, and THEAD elements. According to one book, these are used to group table contents, and "may allow browsers to independently scroll the body of a table."
"If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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I saw it done once with style sheets. I know it is possilble at least, but I couldn't tell you how. In any case, you may want to look into CSS for that.
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Hi
i wanted to create a product comparision.user will select some products and than it will display side by side comparision. i tried datalist,grid, pivot table but still facing problem.
in pivot table we r unable to display iamge and in datalist i am unable to display column headings and data in proper format
pls suggest me.
any idea or any link from there i can get some source code or idea to create the same?
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how to send a e mail from a webpage in html format?
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google for 'EMAIL HTML FORMAT php' without the quotes
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Neils Bohr
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Hi:
It depends on the EmailComponent you are using on the serverside language. The EmailComponent may be supporting the formats like text/plain, html etc.
Which language are you using in serverside? ASP or ASP.NET.
For example, if using Persits.MailSender Component (ASPEmail) from http://www.persits.com/[^], a property needs to be set to specify the mail format as text or html
Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
Personal Web: http://vdeepakkumar.netfirms.com/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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i am using asp.net and want to send mail in html format
how i can send mail and how i can configure to send mail
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1. If I load a web page that contains frames then the OnDocumentComplete() is hit for each frame. How can I recognize that the page is completely loaded (no more frames missing)?
2. How to recognize that web page is redirecting?
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Here is a way I was able to get it to work. The concept is that there is one hidden frame which counts the number of other frames which have finished loading. In the example, there are two frames showing and one too small to see.
index.html:
<frameset cols="100,*,1">
<frame name="left" src="left.html">
<frame name="right" src="right.html">
<frame name="hide" src="hide.html">
</frameset>
left.html and right.html:
<head>
<script language=javascript>
function notifyParent(){
parent.hide.watch++
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad=notifyParent()>
</body>
hide.html
<head>
<script>
//child_frames is the number of frames you need to load
child_frames=2
watch=0
function watchChild(){
if(watch == child_frames){
alert('all child frames are up')
}else{
setTimeout("watchChild()",3000)
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="watchChild()">
</body>
As the frames come up, they add one to the "watch" variable in the "hidden" frame. Once the watch variable equals the child_frames variable, it is considered finished. You can replace the alert with whatever you need.
I don't know if this would work with iframes, if you are using those instead. It may require tweaking.
Hope this helps!
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