In mvc sitemap provider I want to show a list menu's based on the id of the logged in user.I was thinnking about dynamicnodeprovider but it is working for the first request it self that is before logging in.How can i achieve this?
Thanks,
Ajai
You could use cookies to achieve that. Set a cookie when the user logs in and read it when he comes back. Obviously this wouldn't work if:
the user blocks cookies
the user visits the site for the very first time
so you would need a default view for first visits; i don't think you can avoid this problem.
You could take the approach of making a JQuery AJAX call to a controller method which returns the required sitemap information. This enables you to update the sitemap whenever you like based on client side events.
e.g. see this post : http://joelabrahamsson.com/entry/xml-sitemap-with-aspnet-mvc
Another decision is if you want the controller to return the sitemap as ready generated HTML and dynamically replace it in the DOM. Or ( more work ) return the pure sitemap in XML and have JQuery generate the SiteMap markup for you.
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I started integrating SecureSocial in my play/scala app, but I don't really like all the redirects it does between it's different views.
example - try to login from it's default login page and if you put in a wrong pass you will be redirected to a different page (url) but with the same login form. the only thing that is different is that there is an error message...
I want a simple login form (user/password provider) at the corner of my main page that submits it's data using ajax, this data is validated on the server and a response is made to either display error message/s or change the window.location.
Next to this form I will put a link to go to a more advanced login page that adds the option to use other providers like fb/twitter etc..
But from that page I also want to use ajax to submit the details and get the response.
I tried to browse into the SecureSocial source but got a little lost in there.
Can any one give me an idea how to use SecureSocial's but without using any of it's views?
NOTE: I'm not interested in customizing their views, It's not just a CSS/design issue, I want to handle the login details Ajaxly and not with normal form submission followed by redirects...
After some more rummaging around in SecureSocial code I got a better understanding of how it operates.
You can use any of the providers you listed in the play.plugins file seperatly to authenthicate the user's info from your own login/auth code. just make sure you send the right parameters that the provider needs.
I liked the way SecureSocial's ProviderController class dynamically decided what provider to use, based on a parameter. But I didn't like the responses it made - redirect.. I wanted to respond to an ajax request with some data and let the client side js handle it.
This is my solution:
pretty much copy all of ProviderController code to my own Auth.scala file (a Controller).
Changed the redirects related to "case ex, case _", kept the redirect on successful auth as it adds the SecureSocial session key related to the user.
Removed all the SecureSocial related routes from my routes file.
Put an additional hidden field with the logintype (userpass/google/fb/etc...) and configured my login ajax post to sent this along with the post to my Auth controller.
If you need more info comment here and I'll edit the answer.
I have a requirement of having the same URL throughout the application navigations. Like below
http://www.[Site Name]:com. (Here User should not have the idea of chaning the URL from one page to another page)
I am using ASP.NET MVC3 with latest Razor View Engine,
Can some body give suggestions on this?
Advanced Thanks,
Satish Kotha
This may make it very difficult for users to access your site - they won't be able to bookmark a specific page, for example.
It sounds like you want a single-page-app (e.g. like Google Mail or Reader). In this case, you have one page and make heavy use of AJAX. You can query the server via javascript, and send back Partial Views, or raw data in JSON format which can be rendered on the client, possibly via some kind of templating engine.
As Graham Clark has already mentioned, this functionality will most likely be frustrating for the user; however, achieving it depends on the complexity of your project. You may want to look into using jquery to load partial views into the main content area of your site.
When you click on your navigation you can use jquery's load() to replace the main content on the page. Jquery-load-with-mvc-2-partialviews is an interesting blog post that may give you more insight into what you would want to do. Your code to load content could look something like this:
$("#mainContent").load("/Controller/Action",
{parameter}, function () {
// perform javascript actions on load complete
});
I am building a webpage that needs to Query the database and display events in your area based on the users GeoLocation. I've seen this done so many times now on a lot of websites. But I have never built this functionality before.
I have the GeoLocation part functioning. When you land on the page it displays your zip code. I'm not sure how to grab that Zipcode from the div and query the database immediatley.? This webpage being is built using Orchard MVC/NHibernate.
Any suggestion would be helpful.
It sounds like you want the entire solution, but I'm not going to go into that kind of detail.
So I'll give you tips:
Use jQuery to grab the zip code from the DOM
Use jQuery to do an AJAX call to a action method in one of your controllers, passing the zip
Have the controller call the DB and hydrate the results into JSON
Have the controller return a JsonResult
Have jQuery handle the response of the AJAX call and do something meaningful
I am aiming to create a payment module. Its users shall be redirected away from the site's URL in order for the transaction to be processed by a third party at a different URL. I would then like customers to be redirected back to a generic 'success' page that notifies them the order was a success. I have tried redirecting to the default success page (checkout.thankyou.php), but I get lots of errors; all the constants etc. that the application requires have obviously been lost during the redirect.
I would like to be able to retrieve the theme currently enabled in the configuration and use it to insert some basic HTML into the view. I would also like to access the database to perform some queries.
Can anybody advise? I am very stuck, and cannot find anything useful in the documentation! Thank you.
Can you be more specific about what type of information you want in your success page? If you just want basic HTML, then there's no reason you can't just write a basic Joomla article and redirect to that instead of trying to redirect to a VM partial. Again, if it's just basic HTML (no data from the transaction), then you can simply use a code inspector (like FireFox Inspect Element) to track down the CSS classes you like from the template and simply use them in your Joomla article to make it look like the VM template. You can find most of them in components/com_virtuemart/themes/default/themes.css.
If you need to display actual transaction data in your Thank You message, be prepared for a bit more work. You're probably going to have to write a cookie containing the record data BEFORE it gets sent offsite, and then read the cookie just prior to rendering the Thank You page.
Let's say I have an Employee, and for the creation of such employee in my web application I want to follow the next flow.
Create <-> Verify -> Save
In the create page the user can set up a bunch of properties,
In the verify page the user is presented with two options "make changes" and "verify"
In the save page the user is presented with a confirmation page
I have two approaches to this:
Use Javascript to change "action" and "method" of the form.
Handle the logic on the action
(which feels kind of clunky at least
with asp.net mvc)
Which do you prefer ?
Is there a better way to do this?
Pretty easy in ASP.NET MVC. See these posts for guidance:
how to make a wizard with ASP.Net MVC
http://shouldersofgiants.co.uk/Blog/post/2009/09/16/A-RESTful-Wizard-Using-ASPNet-MVCe280a6-Perhaps.aspx
Personally, I would do it as a single GET/POST and utilize some basic jQuery to show/hide DIVs containing the necessary inputs as noted in the first link.
I would do this with routes
GET new to render the create form
POST new to show the verify form
POST create to actually create the resource
Create <-> Verify -> Save
It isn't clunky, Create is Get, verify is post of the same URL. The method that handles the Get and the one that does the post use the Same View, just with different info sent to it.
So for the create the view is instructed to post to the same Url, when u are already to verify it will post to the Save action.
The above works for any non js client. You can then hook some js, so instead of posting the form from Create -> Verify, you would change in the client side. This way it works for both js - non js versions. You can even display the Save confirmation with the same technique if you wanted. Progressive Js.