Archive for the 'Code Bin' Category

PHP based AJAX Phone Directory Portlet

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Finally got around to getting all the pieces together, but here it is. The original demo was packaged as a Domino database and I promised a PHP version along with all of the sample data plus some other goodies below the results area.
Place the cursor in the field and start typing a last name. […]

Tree structured XML in a TextArea

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

In the process of helping to create a more distributed architecture, I am starting to expose some of our business logic to xml calls. These discrete bits of business logic are traditionally locked up into compiled binaries, or if we are lucky, a stored procedure.
Anyway, I started to put together a central place where […]

Talking back XML with Domino

Monday, September 19th, 2005

After years of having to create XML streams in Domino by concatenating strings, I wonder why it took so long before I had to create an XML response with LotusScript using the R6 DomParser. We have had the ability to use Java to do this, and I think that is the main reason why I […]

Multiple form submit with one button: Ajax to the rescue

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

A customer application that was written a few years ago with ASP/VBScript had been migrated from an Access front end. The basic structure is ‘main entity’ with multiple ‘child entities’ and Access is good at working with data in this fashion. All you have to do is split the screen with the main entity on […]

Domino XML: Is Domino still around?

Monday, August 29th, 2005

When you are talking about portals, you will find it hard to steer clear of the topic of XML. Whether it is plain old XML/RPC calls or SOAP, a well architected portal will rely heavily on applications hosting there own logic and exposing this logic with XML. I recently have been working with […]