I want to make an app as my final project for my teacher. I will have images of homework assignments and the date of homework assigned in text format in the server. And I want to make an app where it will access it and put it in an activity.
So I need to know what kind of server do I need, if I could just use google drive somehow or not?
Save it as JSON, you save the images on your database and call it in your JSON.
But for what you intend to do I think FireBase will work just file because it is free for small projects like this.
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I am working on an electron project to keep inventory of a warehouse but I want to store the data on the client-side (on the client's desktop/laptop) and not on a cloud database. How do I do this? Is using an xlsx file a good idea to store the data. As it will come with an added bonus as the user can read the data outside the app if they want to in an excel sheet.
P. S: even if xslx is a way I would like to know other possible ways so I can choose which is more comfortable for me. Thank you.
Edit: sorry I forgot to mention that I might also have to store images in the data.
You have plenty of option. You can store json file and read it when application boot up. As this is node js related thing I would suggest you to use electron store
And xlsx is a good choice but that may be overkill if the thing you are storing is too simple. On windows you can store some settings in registry too. But I prefer the config version.
I have also used sqlite3 database for some app. In Android I believe many app uses sqlite approach to store local database.
I am trying to create a .xlsx file with data I retrieve from mysql to a node.js server that serves an angularjs project, but after hours of trying to find something via npm or google I almost gave up!
The two main problems I have are:
My data is in hebrew (i.e. rtl styling + different characters).
The Excel file that I export needs to be styled in a specific way, and it is a pain trying to style an excel file grammatically.
And then I had an idea!
What if I could create a google sheet doc in my google drive as a template including the styling, and then when the user clicks to create a new doc, I would just duplicate this template, and change the values to the new data.
But just trying to understand the google api is a headache on its on, apparently, there are 3! different api's: Drive, Sheets and auth.
So my question is as follows.
Is my idea valid? does anyone think it could work?
Where would I start, is there some guide or npm that would help?
Please don't comment to look in the docs, I am having a hard time to understand where to start from there.
I would suggest creating the template file locally instead of opting to google spreads.
There is a decent module I used sometime back, which does styling pretty well, Its called exceljs.
Though there is always the xlsx module, Which is very powerful but difficult to use
Also if you end up using google spreadsheets, I would suggest giving node-google-spreadsheet module a look
I have a site that I'm looking to transfer to Volusion. Importing tabled content into Volusion's a breeze, it's getting it tabled that's an issue. The old site has no real ability to export, nor do I know how to get at it's database. I'm thinking there must be some sort of script I can write to take the content from the frontend and download it in some sort of list that I can put into a CSV, and put into Volusion.
www.twincitygreetings.com
Any suggestions? I'm hoping to get in the image directory as well and download all them for upload to the new site.
You are going to need at the very least a file with product code, product name, weight and price.
Looking at the URL you provided it doesn't appear that the products their follow any type of orderly structure where you can target the images folder or products based on a known piece of information like a products code. Unless the back-end has some type of product export function you may have no choice but to recreate it from scratch.
I don't know if you solved this yet or not, but I would suggest scraping the data providing you have the information on the old site currently. This can be done easily using vbscript and excel, or if you aren't very savvy at coding you could look at a piece of software called mozenda. There are a whole variety of methods that can be used to scrape data, all of them pretty easy to learn with a bit of research. Basically you write a script that will crawl your dom and extract the data (to xml works best in my experience)
Hope this helps.
I have this kind of problem. I have created a web application and I am going to run it on a dedicated server. Users will be able to upload photos and other kind of files. If the users increase I add another server.
So they become two like in the picture below. Now since the files are being uploaded to my applications root folder, I think the new server won't be able to read those files. How can I accomplish to store files in a way that whatever server a user will be connecting to he will be able to retrieve the file. How are the cheaper computers (small ones in the ring) connected so that they store files like one big drive with one giant folder such that whenever I want to increase storage I just add another cheap computer to the ring. What do I need to search for in the web?
please pardon me for my poor English. I had asked a similar question before but nobody answered so I thought the photo might help. I am willing to learn anything new to solve this problem. my other earlier question
I am interested in creating a video databse. My goal is to have a folder where my videos will be kept and each time I copy/delete a video the website that presents them should be updated to. the problem is I have no idea how to approach it.
Should I..
Use Sql and store a reference to each video location?
Have a script that checks all the time if new changes happen in that folder?
A package like joomla?
I am using ubuntu btw. I already have a simple html5 page, and I am presenting the videos using html5 video.
It depends on the size and the performance you want.
1.Way : use php to scan the folder and generate links on the fly
2.way : Use a database to store the file names and retrieve the names from the database and generate urls
pros and cons.
simple to implement , no changes in upload or download script. no database required.
You need have a database , little coding required for upload and also while genrating a page
You should make a db (format does not matter) and storing in it only file names of videos: the videos would be stored on hard drive.
Any operation on the web site will pass first on db for insert/update/delete videos records and then (maybe in a transaction context) on the file system.
This would be the standard approach to your question.