Skip to main content

Posts

plain (no library) AJAX file upload

I'm taking a quick stab at a light weight file upload facility. There's been quite a few answers on SO regarding using jQuery to upload a file to the server, which I want to avoid. I'm looking at way to upload a file to the server for validation when the file has been selected using plain Javascript (no JS libraries) Key questions are: 1. Why doesn't the AJAX call work? 2. Once the 'Upload' button has been pressed, I'd like to verify on Server end that file name is the same, if the same, do nothing, if different, stop current Server processing, and start anew - is it possible to do that in PHP? Current state of source files are below: html: php file: Solved Use the FormData object from XMLHttpRequest level 2. var formData = new FormData(); var fileInput = document.getElementById('input_file'); var file = fileInput.files[0]; formData.append("thefile", file); request.send(formDat...
Post a Comment
Read more
Recent posts

Ruby on Rails as_json limit

I have this "as_json" method in my Post model: def as_json(options={}) super(options.merge(:include => { :comments => { :include => [:user] }, :hashtags => {}, :user => {}, :group => {} })) end I'd like to set a limit attribute in :comments like this: def as_json(options={}) super(options.merge(:include => { :comments => { :include => [:user], :limit => 10 }, :hashtags => {}, :user => {}, :group => {} })) end but it doesn't work. How should I proceed? Solved I think that you have only one possibility. I suppouse that you have a has_many :comments association in your Post model So you can define the next has_many association in your Post model, something like this: has_many :ten_comments, -> { limit(10) }, class_name: "Comment", foreign_key: :post_id And then you will be able to do this in the as_json method: def as_json(options={}) super(options.merge(:include => { :te...
Post a Comment
Read more

How to make shortest code?

I use the following code to insert multi array to database: foreach($request->category as $k => $v){ $category[] = array( "category_id" => $v, "announcement_id" => $announcement->id ); } AnnouncementCategory::insert($category); So, input data is POST array $request->category . I need to refactoring this code I tried this code: $announcement->categories()->attach($request->category); In model Announcement I have: public function categories() { return $this->hasMany("App\AnnouncementCategory", "announcement_id", "id"); } Solved If you define in your Announcement model relationship like this: public function categories() { return $this->belongsToMany(AnnouncementCategory::class); } you can do it like this: $announcement->categories()->attach($request->c...
Post a Comment
Read more

removing zeros from the right and adding some to the left of a number?

Suppose I have the following vector test First I want to get the remove the zeros, to obtain something like: test2 Then, I want to add zeros to the left in order to have 6 digits. That part I know how to do: test3 Can you help me with the first step? Solved You can use regular expressions: as.integer(sub("0*$", "", test)) # [1] 3745 22704 Also, here is a fun one using recursion: remove_zeroes Benchmarks: test Late to the party but here's a qdap approach: test
Post a Comment
Read more