I happen to have inherited a drupal project where a common html validation error seems to occur on nearly every page. The validation error is so minor and easy, I actually only have to open any page up in the editor and the tinymce wysiwig editor will fix the problem automatically and I only need to save the page. Considering I will be needing to do this 30k+ times to apply it to the entire site, is there any way to have it either applied automatically to all pages or automated? Any and all suggestions welcome to help me speed up the process.
EDIT : Used solution
Since I'm not the most adept at finding a programming solution, I did find an addon for firefox letting me record et loop a series of actions called iMacros. Started it up in 5 different instances of FF and let it running all night and it's half done already. Certainly not the most efficient way of doing things, but may be a solution for those who, like me, aren't as advanced in programming.
Assuming you can loop through the pages somehow i would suggest to build a page where you include the code source into the editor root html element (textarea or whatever). Then after onInit (see the tinymce configuration options for this (setup parameter and onInit) ) you trigger the submit or save button which delivers the page to the server where it gets saved.
The pages textarea might then get filled with the code of the next page and so on...
The important part here is that your serverbackend is able to loop through the different pages and knows which page comes next when receiving the modified/corrected page code.
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Background:
I need to allow users to create web pages for various products, with each page having a standard overall appearance. So basically, I will have a template, and based on the input data I need the HTML page to be generated for each product. The input data will be submitted via a web form, following which the data should be merged with the template to produce the output.
I initially considered using a pure templating approach such as Nunjucks, but moved to ReactJS as I have prior experience with the latter.
Problem:
Once I display the output page (by adding the user input to the template file with placeholders), I am getting the desired output page displayed in the browser. But how can I now obtain the HTML code for this specific page?
When I tried to view the source code of the page, I see the contents of 'public/index.html' stating:
This HTML file is a template.
If you open it directly in the browser, you will see an empty page.
Expectedly, the same happens when I try to save (Save As...) the html page via the browser. I understand why the above happens.
But I cannot find a solution to my requirement. Can anyone tell me how I can download/save the static source code for the output page displayed on the browser.
I have read possible solutions such as installing 'React/Redux Development Extension' etc... but these would not work as a solution for external users (who cannot be expected to install these extensions to use my tool). I need a way to do this on production environment.
p.s. Having read the "background" info of my task, do let me know if you can think of any better ways of approaching this.
Edit note:
My app is currently actually just a single page, that accepts user data via a form and displays the output (in a full screen dialog). I don't wish to have these output pages 'published' on the website, and these are simply to be saved/downloaded for internal use. So simply being able to get the "source code" for the dislayed view/page on the browser and saving this to a file would solve my problem. But I am not sure if there is a way to do this?
Its recommended that you use a well-known site generator such as Gatsby or Next for your static sites since "npx create-react-app my-app" is for single page apps.
(ref: https://reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new-react-app.html#recommended-toolchains)
If I'm understanding correctly, you need to generate a new page link for each user. Each of your users will have their own link (http/https) to share with their users.
For example, a scheduling tool will need each user to create their own "booking page", which is a generated link (could be on your domain --> www.yourdomain.com/bookinguser1).
You'll need user profiles to store each user's custom page, a database, and such. If you're not comfortable, I'll use something like an e-commerce tool that will do it for you.
You can turn on the debugger (f12) and go to "Elements"
Then right-click on the HTML tag and press edit as HTML
And then copy everything (ctrl + a)
I have got a desktop application which logs into a file, opening a file called application.log each time it wants to log something, appending text and then closing it again.
I would like to create a html page showing the content of the file and automatically showing the changes.
How can I achieve this? I think that refreshing the page is not a good idea because this is not instantaneous. Maybe I need something always going in the background, constantly monitoring the file.
Or maybe when my program changes the file it should somehow notify the webpage that the file had changed, making it update the content?
You can’t do dynamic things in HTML. HTML is just a mark up language.
I haven’t done that before, but I would try to achieve it with Java Script and the reload() function every time you logged sth.
I cloned this https://github.com/Chainfrog-dev/async_flask_2, it is a Python module which communicates with a web page using sockets.
I made the obvious modifications to the code and I ended up with a terminal-style logger which automatically updates its content without the need to refresh the page.
My brother was asking me if I could make him a program that would ask the user for info (name, address, etc) and then output it on a webpage text box that he uses. The reason for this is he has to write the same info over and over for his job so if he could enter it once and have a program fill the correct fields in that would save him hours every day. I've taken a couple semesters of c++ and I was thinking I could write a GUI program just fine that would get the info needed, my problem is I don't know if it is possible to set the output directory to a html text box. I've never messed around with html coding at all. It would be the same web page every time with the same boxes to fill. Any help would be much appreciated.
No. An input element on a web page is not a file.
An appropriate way to solve this problem would be with a Javascript browser add-on.
I'm using UIWebView to display data from my organization data (publicize and legal), however, for instance, I would only want to pull specific data from the html file rather than pulling the whole URL. e.g. I want to pull the "News" section of the html and I want the user to only stay in that page, not enabling them to go into other parts of the website (e.g. home page, contact us) and allowing them to view the PDF article on the HTML file.
I've asked around and read up on DOM and screen scraping, but it seem that the data pulled are stored in a database instead.
Is there any way that I can pull just the HTML "News" section with the PDF URL into my customized HTML file and that it will be updated live (maybe every 30second it will refresh and pull information from the website so that the content and list of PDF are up to date)(e.g. added in 3new article into the main website, my customize HTML file will also refresh and pull information from website and update my article list)
If anyone can point to me a specific method that allow HTML to HTML data passing (live), that will be great and I can go do more research on it. Currently very lost and confuse as it is my first time doing this. Any help/feedback will be very much appreciated :)
EDIT: For example, google map or google search. I don't want to use the whole google webpage, just taking the important thing that i want like the search result or map display.
This will involve quite a lot of learning on your part - you'll have to learn HTML / the DOM / JavaScript and iOS/UIWebVIew.
Lets leave the live refresh part for now, I'll post another answer or edit to that later on.
That's not going to easy either (check out my earlier posting today on background execution issues that will affect you, unless the update is only to take place in the foreground
iOS Run Code Once a Day)
You will have to do something like this. And note that I've never tried this, nor seen posting of people who have on here, but in theory it should work, but there will be a lot of learning as I've said, and lots of trial and error. Its a big task when you're not familiar with these things.
1) Download the html page and load it in a UIWebView, but that UIWebView is hidden so the user's can't see it.
2) When the page has loaded its dom will be accessable.
3) You can use Javascript to access the DOM and look for the parts you want.
How you inject and run the Javascript in UIWebView can be answered in a separate question (this answer will get too long if all the exact details are included).
4) Remove the parts of the dom you are not interested in. Or use use events to make only those parts you are interested in appear, jQuery can probably help here.
5) Display the UIWebView
Alternatively the HTML could be saved to a file and string parsing could be used to search for the bits you are looking for and create a new text html file from it. I think this would get very messy, better to take advantage of the fact that UIWebView will parse the HTML page and create the dom for you.
I am frequently changing code in a Dreamweaver template, and every time I do so, the "Update Template Files" dialog box appears, followed by the "Update Pages" dialog box which I have to manually close. Is there any way to have my inheriting HTML documents automatically update, without having to deal with the 2 dialog boxes, every time I save the Template?
I am coming from developing ASP.NET in Visual Studio, which only requires a quick save, and a reload on the browser. This may seem like a petty problem, but the frequency of it is getting to me quickly...
No, you must go through the Update Pages dialogs if you are using Dreamweaver Templates. The only way to truly get rid of it is to switch out of Templates entirely and use some form of include call to handle the "templated" areas of your site. Editing the called include file and saving it will update all pages that use that file. Just like Templates without the slow dialogs and occasional bugs