How to get started with CodeIgniter and Google Maps API.
I've got a CodeIgniter library specifically for this purpose. You can find more information about it here:
http://biostall.com/codeigniter-google-maps-v3-api-library
A few demos of what can be acheived using the library:
http://biostall.com/demos/google-maps-v3-api-codeigniter-library/
Give me a shout if you have any questions or need any help :)
Enjoy!
CodeIgniter is a backend (server-side) framework. Google Maps API is a frontend (client-side) library. There isn't really any specialized knowledge you need to know about CodeIgniter to get Google Maps working, other than being able to render a view. The question is somewhat flawed in that you assume one depends on the other, when in reality, they are very much decoupled.
The question is similar to how do i get jquery working with codeigniter?...
Reading the CodeIgniter documentation would be a start to understanding how to echo HTML and JavaScript to the browser. The rest is almost entirely client-side JavaScript programming.
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Absolute newb here, please forgive me for this basic question.
I have built my portfolio site using Github pages, but am experiencing spam via my contact form (hosted by GetSimpleForm). I am trying to implement Google reCAPTCHA, but I'm a bit stuck in the backend part. As I understand, Github pages don't support PHP, so I can not actually complete the form verification.
Google documentation here was unfortunately a bit overwhelming and cryptic to me as a beginner, since I just stared at my Github html/css/js files and had no clue what to put where.
Am I trying to do the impossible? Is it possible to use reCaptcha on Github pages? If so, is there a beginner friendly tutorial somewhere or a straightforward "copy-paste" thing I could use? (so far, it's not been clear where to use the secret key from the API key pair for example)
Thanks a bunch for any leads or alternative solutions for spam prevention that would work in Github pages!
The short answer is you cannot. Github Pages only support static site. You have to host your own website if you want to do some complex stuffs like backend check etc. and mostly they are not free.
The only suggestion I can come up is simply change your contact form to regular html form instead of hosting by the 3rd party website you are using. I suspect that the main reason you got spam is because you are using it's service.
A really simple way to do it is to make the form with HTML (you can either copy the code from a pre-made HTML site with a form, or find a youtube tutorial that shows you how to make a HTML form, pretty simple), and host it on something like Netlify. Netlify is free for static websites unless you are doing something really complicated, and it has a built in form submission that will send you an email automatically every time someone fills out the form. You don't need PHP or a third party app or anything.
You still create and edit the code of the website through Github, you just need to connect it to Netlify for the forms. I'm a complete beginner and I figured it out. Netfly has some tutorials that explain it nice and simple. No reason to pay or do a lot of complicated stuff, and you can make professional websites with just HTML and CSS.
I have a client with a content-heavy site built in CMS Made Simple. The redesign requires a mostly AJAX interface, and I think a frontend framework like Backbone or Angular would be the way to go.
I want to avoid moving off CMS Made Simple, though (client is used to that interface, it will be annoying to migrate all the data).
I think if I could find or create a RESTful api for CMS Made Simple, I'd solve my problem. But after searching around online, I only found CGSocialApp module, which seems to provide a limited API for things like user management. I've also looked into other AJAX solutions for CMS Made Simple, and there don't seem to be good modules for it.
If there is no ready-made solution for me, how complex would building a RESTful API module be? I haven't built a RESTFUL api in a PHP framework before.
Thanks for any guidance!
So, there is no easy answer for this question, as the CMSMS doesn't have a build-in RESTful API.
I would go for one of the two solutions:
1. Output the content as hand made json.
In CMSMS, you really have a lot of control on the templates. You could change the default templates to output json content instead of HTML content. The only issue is that the CMSMS will still send an http content-type header, that you can try to ignore in the JS part.
To access the menu, just remove it from the main template and create an empty page who output the {menu}with a custom template that also build json content.
That's the quick and dirty solution, but it should be very accessible in terms of doing it.
2. Create a dedicated module.
As far as I know, there are no modules that expose the CMSMS in RESTFul format, but a module is really very easy to build. Well, you can try to build it yourself, with the help of the community. It don't really solve the current problem, but it's a hint.
I hope it shed some light on the problem.
I am trying to learn backbone.js to make a web application.This is my first time with a javascript framework and I am fairly confused with some of the stuff.
I have been developing in codeigniter for a while so I do have a understanding of the MVC architecture.
My question is how do I get the data from the backbone.js front end to my codeigniter controller and save it in the database. for example to implement a simple login/register functionality with CI and backbone, how should I proceed. If anyone can guide me step step then that would be great or point me to the right resource. Thank you.
PS: I know that I have to implement a REST api with my codeigniter but I don't know how? so if someone can provide a basic controller example it'd be really helpful.
Here's a tutorial to use the API mentioned in the above reply (by the author of the library himself)
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/working-with-restful-services-in-codeigniter-2/
I would like to write a web app that uses Dropbox for cloud storage.
If I understand correctly, I should use the Restful API to achieve that.
This documentation exists and is quite good but being a newcomer to Restful API I would love to see and play with a simple example that works with this API.
My questions are:
Am I right to assume that Rest API is the way to go?
Is there a quick and easy example (Maybe a live example) to get me going?
Thanks!
as you tagged your question with "ajax", i presume you want to do this entirely client-side (except for some proxy-code to be able to make requests accross domains)? I haven't tried it out myself, but there's dropbox-js on google code which will at least give you some ideas (and if the Dropbox API didn't change too much since June 2010 it might even work out of the box)?
Update: there's no "download", but you can browse the source code of trunk here.
Here's a lengthy article on the matter
Some love for Javascript Applications with code samples, a demo etc.
I am currently trying to full appreciate how and when to use hash tags in urls when building an ajax powered website. There seems to be a distinct lack of reading material on the web regarding this technique and as such I don't feel like I've got a good handle on it.
Could someone explain in the simplest terms how the hash tag can be used in urls to enable things like loading pages via ajax.
Thanks
You might want to take a look at Google's Making AJAX Applications Crawlable website.