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I designed a nice resumé template in Sketch and now I want to make it available to use it for the users of a site.
The data will be stored in MySql database and the design should be modular depending on the information.
What is the best way of doing it? I though of replicating the design in CSS3 and then converting it with some of this scripts fpdf or mpdf but I don't thing that it's the easiest way of doing it.
What do you think?
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An example of the resumé is the following:
If it's a set template/pattern I'd approach it like each segment as an object with a varying number of attributes based on data it returns from the mysql call.
IE when you pull the data from your table and start looping through a person's skills you can add that to the SKILLS object. Same for the Experience, etc etc.
Since this would essentially be like Parent Child nodes you could also do it with XML but the approach is really up to you.
You could then easily output the constructed resume as HTML (so your users on the site can see it live and may make changes, and then use a converter to convert to PDF (alots of languages have libraries to do just that). Most modern browsers can also already convert HTML pages to PDF too nowadays so you could also give them instructions on how to do that.
Just my two cents,
Hope it helps!
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AFAIK people create their own table-like-components and the use of the good old HTML tables is kind of "outdated". Now I'm at the point where I would need a table for my vuejs application. I'm using bulma and the doc states this:
Table
The inevitable HTML table, with special case cells
The "support" badges below that title state that there isn't much support for it (only variables) and the text itself sounds like "well... since so many not-up-to-date-people want it, here, take it".
Should I rather go the "unordered list" way or something else? Like creating a component to represent a row and a component holding the table together? I'm not asking for vue specifically, but for a rather "modern approach" and how to do something like that properly.
The table element is still the correct way to provide tabular data in a semantically correct way in HTML. So if you use it semantically correct it is fine and not outdated per se.
However having that in mind, it might be a valid decision for you to go with new approaches like CSS Grid if that helps you to faster and more user friendly accomplish the creation of new Elements on your website, as the end-user should always benefit from your decisions.
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I want to make a html website and use it locally, as a 'tool' to generate an Excel table or just an HTML for email.
I have to put some items in a table, add the price, quantity, etc and sum all the products value..and sometimes to add a discount. Right now I'm doing this manually and its not very efficient since I don't have a database or something and I have to write all the data manually every time.
So my question is: it is possible to make a html website to do this stuff? And also to create a database to store the products info. And also it can be done without php? Since I only need the browser to do all the job and then save/export the generated file.
I only know some html and CSS, so that's why I'm asking for a html way to accomplish this..but if you have a better idea, i'm open to listen.
Thanks :)
To achieve this, you will have to use Javascript or PHP.
If all you want is adding information to your excel file, I wouldn't suggest doing all the effort to create a website + database. Besides, you will at least some kind of javascript/php since plain HTML will only to tell the browser how to render your webpage.
Other possibilities from my side:
Option 1: Why don't you add a sheet in your Excel file with input boxes and a macro? If all you want is some kind of interface to add items to your Excel file, I wouldn't suggest doing all the effort to set up a website + database. If your Excel file will grow to big, I would suggest option 2.
Option 2: You could also think about creating an Access database with some kind of UI to add items to it. Depending on the goal this would be a prefered solution over a website + database.
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I use CSS to stylize my pages. I use % style instead of using px values. However, since I need to add several elements of different sizes in different positions, I end up spending more time in designing the layout than the coding.
I tried using a WYSIWYG editor but it uses px style coding. Can someone help me with a solution so that I can design the layout quickly and proceed to real part? I use WordPad right now.
The best thing to do is practice more. Get better at coding them, and reuse parts from prior projects where it makes sense.
There is no WYSIWYG tool that will save you time, for most projects. They all write garbage code, because editing with such a tool is a bit ambiguous. It is up to you as a web developer to write your markup and styles in a way that will be interpreted correctly across many user agents.
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Hello I have an html page that through php pulls reports about sales and puts them in charts and graphs. It works great however I am looking for a way to convert a div box into a pdf so whoever is using the sight can print specific graphs and charts that are in selected div boxes. Is there a simple way to do this or is this unfeasible?
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There are lots of answers here merely talking about making a PDF. That's the easy part - the hard part is finding an engine that renders the CSS well.
This question has been raised before, and the issue doesn't lie with feasibility (it's very possible and there are lots of solutions), but they vastly differ on their capabilities to translate CSS into PDF. Many just completely fail altogether.
From my research it looks like WKHTMLtoPDF is your best bet, as it uses a full WebKit engine to render the HTML first, then translate that into a PDF (I found a tutorial in addition to the docs).
The downside? It's command-line, so you'll need to engineer a solution involving either python or php to execute the program. Here's the PHP manual on executing a program.
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I have personally used FPDF before, which is a surprisingly light-weight solution with a caveat that you have to provide it with all of the HTML (edit:) line-by-line, rather than being able to use the browser-rendered result of a HTML page (a result that would include a rendered chart). I'm providing it merely as a suggestion and to help you work out where you can go from here, but it's not directly applicable to your complex CSS/chart problem.
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I'm building a website that requires very basic markup capabilities. I can't use any 3rd party plugins, so I just need a simple way to convert markup to HTML. I might have a total of 3 tags that I'll allow.
What is the best way to convert ==Heading== to <h2>Heading</h2>, or --bold-- to <b>bold</b>? Can this be done simply with Regex, or does somebody have a simple function?
I'm writing this in C#, but examples from other languages would probably work.
It's not really a simple problem, because if you're going to display things back to the user, you'll need to also sanitise the input to ensure you don't create any cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
That said, you could probably do something pretty simple as you describe most easily with a regular expression replacement.
For example
replace the pattern ==([^=]*)== with <h2>\1</h2>
This really depends on the Wiki syntax you're using as there are several different ones. Obviously the wiki software has this functionality somewhere; if you can't find a software package that does this for you, you could start looking for the relevant code in your wiki software.
Maybe this is what you need.
This page is a compilation of links, descriptions, and status reports of the various alternative MediaWiki parsers — that is, programs and projects, other than MediaWiki itself, which are able or intended to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else.