I will refer to the account as user in this post.
So I put the tcpdf directory in /home/user/laravel/
I then tried to do this in a page:
{{ HTML::link('/tcpdf/examples/example_001.php') }}
and I get the 404 requested page that I setup
any ideas why this is happening or why its not working?
Do I need to do a route maybe?
Any information on this would be great.
If you are really trying to work with TCPDF within your Laravel app, you will most likely want to include it as you would other packages using composer. Please see this answer on how to add TCPDF to composer.json in order to have composer automatically download it into your vendor area: Download tcpdf manually without using composer in Laravel 4 (Ignore the post title - it does talk about including TCPDF with composer.)
What you are achieving with the code sample above is to simply render a link to a certain URI off your URL base. Whether or not that will work will depend on how your local web server is configured and potentially how Laravel and Laravel routing is configured.
Having said all that, I think you are headed down the wrong path with that solution. Ultimately, I believe that what you will want to do is drag TCPDF in using composer, then create a PDF file with code like:
$pdf = new TCPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf-> ... other stuff according to the TCPDF API...
$pdf->Output( 'test.pdf', 'I' );
The TCPDF API can be found here: http://www.tcpdf.org/doc/code/classTCPDF.html
You could put some code like that into a controller method to play around and get things working, but later you would probably want to move it elsewhere.
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I have a ZF2 project where I generate, minify, etc... my assets via gulp. For example I generate a styles.css file which gets included with the ZF2 headlink view helper:
echo $this->headLink()->appendStylesheet($this->baasePath('assets/css/styles.css));
Now I have the problem, that the file gets cached by the browser and does't notify any changes. Does anyone know a way to handle that? Maybe add a version number to the generated css file, but then I really don't want to edit all the ZF2 templates which inlcude that file.
Thanks for any reply.
There's a load of ways to do this, but one option is to use Assetic - a well known asset manager package. Tere's a few ZF2 modeules to help integrate this library into the framework too. A quick google search throws up some:
https://github.com/magnetronnie/zf2-assetic-module
https://github.com/kriswallsmith/assetic/
This module will help manage assets such as CSS/JS, and also has some "cache busting" features where by you can change the url based upon the file modification date to ensure if changes when ever the file is re-downloaded by the browser.
Following the instructions on the MEAN.js website, I create a new site and attempt to create a new CRUD using yeoman generator. my command is as follows
$ yo meanjs:crud-module meal
Everything seems to be created correctly in the modules folder, and when I go tho the site, and attempt to create a new "meal" everything seems to work fine until I hit submit. The browser throws the following error
http://localhost:3000/meals/api/meals 404 (Not Found)
Am I missing a step in the setup? is there something additional I need to do to get CRUD to work.
There is something wrong with your routing, check your client/config/routes and server/routes file. The URL should be:
http://localhost:3000/api/meals
without the first meals after 3000. That's why it is a 404.
Hope this helps, if you cant find the problem add some code.
Just put a forward slash(/) in front of api in resource service.
/api/meals instead of api/meals
I am having trouble using dartdocgen and dartdoc-viewer to pump my JSON files to the browser. I have had success getting all the JSON files from my application but haven't had any success actually viewing them in the browser. Based on my research, the best way to do this is hosting dartdoc-viewer on a local server as mentioned by this document:
https://www.dartlang.org/tools/dartdocgen/#deploy
However I just cannot seem to get it to work following these directions (I would like to approach it via dartium):
https://github.com/dart-lang/dartdoc-viewer/
I understand that once I am able to run pub build and compile to javascript that I dump the client/build folder into my server along with the docs folder under the URL, I am golden. That's where the issue is, how to get it from the docs folder to javascript to the browser.
I would like to be able to use dartdocgen to it's full potential so can I get some ideas?
Just run dartdocgen --serve .
see https://www.dartlang.org/tools/dartdocgen/#view-locally
Is not what you are looking for?
I would like to create a Rails 4 app, where some data is entered into the db via a form and when it is published, any changes on the site are compiled and the entire consumer facing site is just a bunch of flat HTML files.
That way, on each request there isn't a db request done and just a simple HTML file is sent.
This is similar to the way Octopress operates, where you write a blog post locally and when you do a deploy it basically compiles the entire site into a large set of connected HTML files that are then pushed to your host(gh-pages for instance).
Is there a way to use extensive caching or something similar to get the same effect in Rails 4 or should I go about it another way in Rails or should I just try to customize Octopress for my needs?
Have a look at page caching, it has been moved from Rails to a separate gem
https://github.com/rails/actionpack-page_caching
It saves the generated HTML files to a specified directory which you should be able to deploy separately from the rest of the application.
I have been reading tutorials and guides concerning this but have not found a straight forward answer to this.
I currently have an existing website running on a node.js platform, locally on my computer.
Goal: Now I want to try and write a simple hello world in Dart, export it to plain JavaScript and see it work in my existing website.
Reading the documents, I read that I should create a new "Web Application" and to create some sample code up and running, I check the "Generate sample content" box.
And my project is now created in Dart Editor:
I can run the sample in Dartium, see it work, etc.
But the problem is that I have now a .html file in the Dart-project, while I have a real .html file for my existing node website in a totally different path. I don't want that. I want to try and use the existing .html instead, since.. thats my real website.
But when trying to create a new Dartium launcher, I can only refer to .html files within my Dart-project:
So my big question is; How do actually start using Dart with my existing developed website?
How do I create that bridge?
On the second image above in your original question, there is an option just below the HTML file, called URL - is this what you're looking for? You can set that to any arbitrary URL.
You'd also need to copy the helloworld.dart file into your node.js server path, and copy the bits inside the <body> tag into your existing HTML page. You'll also need to copy the packages\browser\dart.js file somewhere to your node.js server, too.
If you wanted to run the JS version, you'd also need to use the editor menu option to Generate JavaScript and copy the .js files into your node.js server path.
The script tag that refers to dart.js automatically detects if the browser supports Dart natively, and will either load the .dart version of your app, or the .dart.js version of your app (from the same folder location).
So what you're likely after is something like:
c:/nodejs_server_root
/existingIndex.html // containing the two script tags from helloworld.html
// and other tags referred to in helloworld.dart
/helloworld.dart
/dart.js
/helloworld.dart.js
And in the "URL" path in the launch configuration, you'd put something like http://localhost:<port>/existingIndex.html
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/dev_compiler can compile Dart to Node.js modules with the --modules=node option.
See also https://github.com/dart-lang/dev_compiler/issues/291#issuecomment-176687849