From what I've read so far, it seems like the only way for me to map custom data points from my own dataset is to host that data with MapQuest. Am I correct in that or have I just not read deep enough?
And if it's possible, does anyone have a link to more information about how to go about it? Their API documentation is subpar.
Thanks :)
Disclaimer: I work at MapQuest
While the MapQuest Data Manager makes it easy to store custom data with MapQuest so that you can query it through the Search API, you don't have to store data with us in order to show custom points on a map.
Are you trying to do something along the lines of storing data in MySQL or PostgreSQL and then use something like PHP to query your own database, loop through the results, and then show the results on a MapQuest map using the JavaScript API? Unfortunately I don't have any easy/quick examples that show how to do that, but it is possible.
The forums on the Developer Network are also good place to look to see if others have had issues similar to the one that you are facing.
Also, let me know exactly which MapQuest APIs/tools you are using and I will do my best to provide more information depending on what you need.
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I have a Sails.js app that needs to fetch from a Mongo database, then display that data in a graph. Alternately, it can take data from a JSON file located on the server.
I am struggling with that process immensely. What seems like it should be an easy task is anything but. I should mention that I am not terribly familiar with Sails.js, but this is what I was directed to use.
I am seeking either examples, documentation, advice, pointers, alternatives, basically anything that would point me in the right direction.
I realize that this is likely to generate a lot of opinion over the "best" and that's not what I am after. I am looking for direction towards resources or guidance on technique.
Thanks.
you can read this link to understand how integrate mongodb with sails.js
i will list logic steps to understand how you can get data
after install mongodb-sails driver in package.json to open
connection between sails and mongodb
you have to define model which map your mongodb documents to
Models
define model attributes
you can use waterline to get document , findbycolumnname and make
CRUD operations
I want to store a set of data (like drop tables for a game) that can be edited and "forked" (like a open source project, just data, so if I stop updating it, someone can continue with it) like a coding project. I also want that data to be easy to implement in code (for example, the same way you can use a database in code to get your values) for people that makes companion apps for said game.
What type of data storage would be the best for this scenario?
EDIT: By type of data storage I mean something Like XML or JSON or a database like Access or SQL as well as noSQL
It is a very general question, but I'm getting the feeling that you're looking for something like GitHub. If you don't know what that is, then you should probably look into it. GitHub supports svn and allows you to edit your code quite easily and let you look back to previous versions of your code. Hope this helps!
Hi guys im brand new and not a developer but I need a way for users when they go to my site they can upload there video and there would be a option for them to add there first name and email so when the video is uploaded the database can keep all the data together.
Ideally I want this as easy as possible for the user and this would just go to our youtube channel or any video platform will work.Any advice would be great!
Please provide more information like what platform are you using ?.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
The simple way to achieve with web technologies like (Php,node,jave) is maintain the basic user information into the sessions, and whenever it's necessary use this information.
You need to get some knowledge about the system you are using. You particularly need:
access to the server
to know the server type
access to the database
to know the database type
where the relevant files are
After you have gathered all these information, you at least know what you do not know. The next step is to gather information about how you can implement the feature you need. Look at it like at a puzzle with many small pieces. If you are patient-enough, at the end you will resolve the puzzle.
I'm currently looking at building a lightweight integration between PivotalTracker and Salesforce.com. Reviewing this bit of PT documentation, it looks like I can do an update of Salesforce data based on PT activity. Awesome! I can't figure out how to access the XML data that is being posted however.
I can't see anything in ApexPages.CurrentPage() that looks like it will let me get to the XML. Has anyone done anything like this, without the use of an intermediate server?
I think we chatted about this over Twitter last week.
AFAIK there is (somewhat annoyingly) no way to access raw (i.e. not form posted key/values) POST data via SFDC. The Apex REST service support would be the closest thing, but requires authentication and still may not do exactly what you want.
Fairly certain you'll need some sort of middle-man proxy that simply takes the XML data and posts it to VF as a form-encoded key/value pair. That is a fairly trivial thing to do, but it's an unnecessary additional moving part and will require some sort of server resource.
I would probably first investigate if PT supports any other ping mechanism, or a way to write a custom extension to convert the raw POST into a form POST.
I want to access facebook's database.
I want to have some SQL-like access, let's like this:
"select name from facebook-big-database-table where location='France' and city='Paris' and age
between 30 and 40;"
But, it need not to be SQL, PHP or JAVA would also be nice to use to me.
Does anybody know where to start?
To be honest, I got a little bit lost in all the tutorials Facebook offers.
Is it the so called "Connect" program which offers me what I want or something different?
Facebook does have a bunch of API's, one of which actually looks like SQL. They call it FQL. Check it out here. Maybe it can help you some part of the way at least.
Note that it won't give you raw access to the underlying tables. But still, better than nothing I guess.
Facebook isn't going to let you mine their database in that way. Not possible.
You wont be able to access facebook's database. The most you'd be able to do is to get information of users who previously have consented your application to access their data.
Therefore answering your question, what you want can't be done, period.