Am asking for input on a better way to manage website content. Input is dozens of .pdf files up to 11 meg in size containing one to eight advertisements comprised of both text and graphics. These files are 300 dpi at CMYK and I use the same .pdf files the printer uses to print glossy paper coupons. The goal is to categorize and display the ads in a website for online printing. This post is all words and no code.
The work flow is divided into cropping and displaying.
For cropping: having done it many ways (screen scraping, Photo Shop. Paint Shop, etc.) am getting the best controlled results by opening each .pdf in GIMP, hand cropping each ad and saving as a .png file. Now using GIMP because the others have been awkward to use or didn't provide the results I want. Have tried various pdf utilities to extract each ad intact and avoid cropping altogether, but the mixture of text and graphics gets skewed.
For displaying: I hand update the html directory and when an ad description is linked by the site visitor, pass filename and title parameters to a common php script I wrote that determines the image dimension based on the image size, builds standard html code and displays the ad. For printing I rely on the browser print button.
Will ASP permit me to develop a web-based application that will read these .pdf files directly from the printer's server, let a non-technical person easily crop them, describe them, store them, build the directory, and display them? Kind of like a cropping content management system? also will need the ability to stick in an impromptu ad here and there too.
Does anyone know of a database management program that I can use with my access dbs? I have several access dbs on one server, but have to log in to each one for editing, viewing users, etc. (obviously). I don't know if anything like this exists, but it sure would be helpful if I could just log into one db to view/edit all of my dbs. Does anyone know of such a program?
how can i make buttons on my web site to import/export favorites from ie a good example of this can be found. can someone give me an idea or link to study on this topic.
I would like to be able to generate table reports listing all the TABLE NAMES, FIELDS and their datatypes in a neatly formatted table.
Additionally I am building up a frightening amount of queries.I would also like to cycle through this and neatly associate notes with them to remind me of their specific purpose.The naming of the query can only go so far.
I find that upon returning to my asp and access application after a month or two I struggle to contextualize where to begin query additions and table alterations and hope a catalog method will make me more effective and save time.
I created my custom error page and it sends an email with serverVariable("URL") to me, so I know what files users may request which are not found. All of a sudden, I started receiving a large number of emails.
what's the best way to log errors: database or flat text file (in terms of speed and use)? what useful info can I collect on error page 404 as you may suggest (serverVariable("URL") serverVariable("REMOTE_ADDRESS") are not just enough).
We have a legacy, P.O.S. Access database/application that we use for production tracking at work. We are wanting to design a new web application for our intranet to replace it as well as use an Oracle database. I have not used ASP.NET before, but I'm going to start learning so I can work on the new application. In the meantime, I'm thinking of the things I'll need to be able to implement to have this work how we need it to:
1. Convert the Access tables to Oracle and serve them on the intranet 2. Create web forms in ASP.NET to replace the forms used by the Access application 3. Regulate user privileges so that certain users only have access to certain features. This was easy in Access, but I need some sort of administrative area of the new web app. to add new users and regulate their permissions.
Regarding number 3, how would you guys go about doing this? I'm also open to input on the other areas as well.
I have a website that we display images we have saved into a SQL Server 2000 database as binary BLOB. This is on a Windows 2003 Server. Just recently (a week ago) this website began to save the images it is displaying on the website as ASP pages in the Temporary Internet Files > IE.Content > Folder.
We have other websites where we use the exact same code and these do not save files on the server when they are displayed.
Here is the code to display the image: Set rs = objConn.Execute( SQL ) Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream" Response.BinaryWrite rs("Product_Image")
SQL is the SQL String to get the image from database
When I add this code:
Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg"
The images still display on the website, but now are saved in the Temporary Internet Files folder as JPG's.
Can a php file be executed inside an asp file? I need to execute a php file in another asp file but i'm not so sure it's possible. My server can run both asp and php and they run without any problems... I just need to find a way to include the execution results of the php file in the asp one. Is it possible to use SSI and include the executed php file and then the executed asp file in a main ssi file?
I have installed PWS in windows 98 in each of the system at various places and put my Sales program files in the WWWROOT directory in all the branches. I'm afraid that the users may tamper my ASP files. Is there any way of converting .ASP files to .exe files so that the dont see my program.
I was wondering how some sites let you search by using a form, then present the results as static .htm files.
The reason I ask is that I tend to use ASP to process form information, then give the user a list of results presented on an .asp page. The list is simply drawn from a database in real-time and formatted into a template page.
The problem with this is that search engines can't see any of the information in the database, since they can't do the form submission. Is there a way around this?
When DLLs are compiled in VB, in addition to the dll, there are also exp and .lib files created. Can somebody tell me what these are for? Do I need to include them when I deploy my application?
I want to include just the result of a PHP file within an ASP file. <--#include won't work, it just imports the text.Is there an alternate way to do this?
Checking our IIS log files we often get the chinese bots probing our sites. My only concern at the moment is that when an item is called by ID (i.e. select category from table where categoryid = id) and the id is called from either a querystring or a form request, I use CLng (i.e. CLng(request.querystring("id")) to convert the id to a long int to prevent the bots injecting the variable with any non-numeric characters.
IYHO, if I have say 10 different product categories that extract their data from say 10 text files or an Access DB, is it more efficient to have an ASP for each product category to query each section or 1 which parses the lot?? The only reason I am asking is for multiple user access I have this strange belief that if 1 page is getting requested and queried by 10 simultaneous visitors then 'spreading the load' on different pages would help. Is my logic correct or do the ISP fairies have this in hand??
when the user submit a form, all the form data's will be saved as a pdf file is it possible? yes means. by what way we can get this..? For doing this we have to use any third party tools..?
i want to know what is the difference between using a .asp include file and .inc include file.I know how an Asp Include file works , but some place i have seen .Inc as Include file. What is the difference?
Does anyone know of a COM object, or if it is possible to display content in the browser of a file in a zip file.
In other words, I have a zip file with like 100 images. I have a script that will knows which zip to look at and what the file name is inside the zip. What I want is to display in my browser the image that is in the zip file .Not sure if this is possible or not, I've been searching the web for a way to do this. Any help would be great.
I'm looking into ways of creating zip files on my server without components to install. It's so I can let users of my site select files they would like to download and zip them up on the fly and download.
I just upgraded to Office 2003 and none of my .mdb files open! Double-clicking an mdb file opens Access, but the database never opens. No error messages. No hourglass This happens to any mdb file I try to open.
One site I've written allows the user to install an IE extension menu (notmalware at all) by downloading/merging a short .REG file. Worked like a peach on Win2K Server, now that I upgraded to Server 2003, it returns a 404 file not found error.I'm positive the file is there/spelled right.I changed it to .txt and it displays the text in the user's browser.
So there's little question that this is some "security" addition,to help keep us safe from the functionality we're used to. I could see browser-end warnings/protection, as long as it can be adjusted for trusted zones, but server-side content filters that block serving certain extensions? WTF?
So, after the obligatory scan of msdn, I looked for mappings to 404.dll,mime types and other seemingly quasi-relevant configs...found nothing that referenced .REG.Does anyone know how to disable this "protection"?Are there any other dastardly extensions it will "save" me from?
I need to read from a html file. I know you can read from a text file with OpenTextFile But is there one for html? or if i do OpenTextFile, will it go and return it anyways? I have to go, that's why I don't try it myself(and I'm scared of what could happen to the other site .
Anyone think of a better way to run a VBS file from in ASP than this example? (Goal is to run VBS files that use 'wscript.echo' without having to re-write to use 'response.write'.) Code:
I got some log files off my host that I need to analyse... Anyone know of any way to do this? Any premade scripts? I checked all the ASP sites and most analysis software has it's own log files, I just want to use standard ones.
