I've searched and I can only find tutorials to pull info from a server to update the latest info of my PWA app using JSON. But I can't find any way and any example to fetch data back to a server to mantain for instance a Database updated and display that to all users which may use that PWA.
For example, I have a PWA that let me login (client-server communication), then it displays a list of contacts that were stored in a Database. I can delete, modify or add new users to this list from my PWA app, and after doing that, they'll update on my server Database, so if my friend Paul, wants to check the updated list from his account, he'll see the new changes.
How Can I do that? Which language would I have to use, php and Javascript (Ajax)? Which is the most fluid and optimized way to do it according to a Progressive Web App.
I guess you are trying to store user changes back to the server(webservice and then to the data base).
You have to make an AJAX call to your web service and pass the required data needed to store in DB.
Here is an example.
https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_http.asp
Depending on the framework you are using, you might have more options to call a web service. Like here is an example for Angular -> https://www.w3schools.com/angular/angular_http.asp
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I was asked by a potential client if I can have my software interact with Esri/ArcGIS Online.
Use case: users is logged into SomeRandomSoftwareApp and is looking at a Widget, this Widget includes an Esri asset id, the user clicks a link that passes that ID to Esri/ArcGIS Online and behind the scenes the user is logged into Esri and they see the data associated with the Esri/ArcGIS Online.
Thanks, Keith
If I understand correctly, you have two options for this: API Keys or Application Credentials.
The first one, is a permanent token generated by the owner of the data that will allow the application easy access to it. This is still in beta, and it was not ready for use the last time I check some time ago.
The second one, the owner of the data will generate credentials for your application. With this credentials you will have to request a token each time you want to access the data, all this via OAuth 2.0.
Check the docs for more details ArcGIS Services - Security
I'm making a web app project using Laravel and React. The data is displaying normally, but each time it is updated the page need to be refreshed manually in order to show the new information's in the database.
How can I display for example the last users registered in real time? Without refreshing the page?
I'm currently using MySQL.
You need to use websockets to listen for a notification and trigger an ajax request to get the data from the server and update the front end
A few different options
https://pusher.com/
https://www.twilio.com/sync
https://socket.io/
https://beyondco.de/docs/laravel-websockets/getting-started/introduction
I have a web app with a MySQL database we maintain in the cloud that we are trying to integrate with our QuickBooks Online account. We want to sync data between or web app's database and QuickBooks online, such as customer names and addresses. If they update their address in or web app, it's easy to then update it in QuickBooks online using the QuickBooks Online API. However, if they tell us their new address over the phone and we change it directly in QuickBooks online, we have no idea how to have that trigger something so that it automatically updates our MySQL web app. How do we go about doing this or learning about this process?
Intuit/QuickBooks has an API that's specifically geared towards this use-case. From the docs:
The change data capture (CDC) operation returns a list of entities that have changed since a specified time. This operation is for an app that periodically polls Data Services and then refreshes its local copy of entity data.
Docs are here:
https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0100_accounting/0300_developer_guides/change_data_capture
Basically you make an OAuth signed HTTP GET request like this:
https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/1234/cdc?entities=Class,Item,Invoice&changedSince=2012-07-20T22:25:51-07:00
And you get back a list of objects that have changed since the given date/time.
Your application can remember the last time you called this, and periodically call this API to get things that have changed since the last time you called it.
You get back something like this:
<IntuitResponse xmlns="http://schema.intuit.com/finance/v3" time="2013-04-03T10:36:19.393Z">
<CDCResponse>
<QueryResponse>
<Customer>...
</Customer>
<Customer>...
</Customer>
</QueryResponse>
<QueryResponse>
<Invoice>...
</Invoice>
<Invoice>...
</Invoice>
</QueryResponse>
</CDCResponse>
</IntuitResponse>
I want to use Zapier to register a new Wordpress user — the trigger will be a new purchase on Gumroad.
This plugin — https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api-user/ — allows you to register users using a public JSON interface, eg by hitting
https://example.com/api/user/register/?username={{email}}&email={{email}}&nonce=blahblahblah
I'm new to all this, but know that I can get Zapier to insert the purchaser's email from Gumroad into {{email}}.
My question is, how can I do this in a secure way?
(At the moment anyone can hit example.com.com/api/get_nonce/?controller=user&method=register and get the key they need)
And maybe it can even be done without using Zapier?
I'm assuming that the nonce is only good for a short period of time, like a couple minutes? If so, what you want to do is lock down the /api/get_nonce/ endpoint to require a password. That way only authenticated users can get a nonce, which can then be used to create the user.
As for how Zapier fits in, it's a bit complicated to custom build a two-request process like this. You would have to make your own app on the Developer Platform do the nonce call and then the user creation.
I use the following plugin to create users (via Zapier) on my WordPress sites after someone signed up on my Teachable school: WP Webhooks Pro
This plugin allows me to either POST the data to my WordPress site via JSON, XML or a simple form data. In my case, I don't need a nonce, since the plugin generates API keys that I can use to push my data to.
I was wondering if it is possible to have multiple custom push notifications setup in a single AIR App.
What I am trying to do is allow users to setup custom alerts based on information they would like to receive for example say user 1 would like to know when new actions or drama movies are released on DVD, user 2 would like to know when new comedies are released, user 3 would like to know when any new movie is released.
This is a simple example and there are possibly 1000's of options (postcode/zip information).
Thanks
Technically, there's nothing that wouldn't allow you to do this.
The implementation is mostly backend related though, let me just quickly draft a design for that here;
The user's device registers for push notifications at your backend service.
Your service takes the user's id stores in a DB and passes the device token to the corresponding push notification server.
Once the registration is completed, the user selects what items he'd like to get notified of (naturally your backend service has to know this information as well to store it in the DB).
As soon as a new action movie (or whatever kind of information the user registered for) is available, your service looks in the DB what users registered for that kind of movies and sends a message via push.
So a simple database and some server side scripting will get you going.