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Nowadays there is a lot of focus on the change management aspect of an ECM project. This is extremely important when looking at user acceptance, but my thoughts are on the system itself. Many organisations roll-out a very basic system and plan to add more features later on. However, by that time, a lot of damage has been done. On such a limited system, it is very hard to convince end users why this system is soo much better than the network shares they were using before, as most arguments seem to benefit the organisation itself, but not the end-user directly.

So here are the 10 things you should have in place before you roll out your Livelink system (in no particular order by the way). Without these, it will be more difficult to win the hearts of your users.

1. Directory Services
   No discussion possible. You need single sign on from the start!
2. Office and e-mail integration
   Livelink will be the central storage for the content your users create, so make it easy for them to add content to the system.
3. Explorer integration
   For the same reason as #2, your users will need either Livelink Explorer or WebDav (or a combination)
4. e-Link
   E-mail enabling your system greatly enhances productivity, but perhaps more important, your users will love it.
5. Workflow
   Workflow is often not implemented in 'phase 1' of the ECM roll-out. However, workflow is a great way to get things into your system in an organised way. You users will quickly see the benefits of the ECM system compared to a fileshare 'system'.
6. WebForms
   Even if you're not using them for a business purpose at the start of your Livelink roll-out, you can create one that your users can use to request access to specific areas or functionality of the Livelink system itself. This is just another way of giving your users something extra, something they didn't have before.
7. WebReports
   WebReports can be used to make your LiveReports more attractive, and once you start using them, you will find out many, many more uses for them. WebReports can also be used turn your Enterprise Workspace into an attractive dynamic homepage.
8. Appearances and Customviews.
   Add some corporate branding to your Livelink pages using Appearances and spend some time creating attractive customviews for the main folders in your Livelink system. Add a few lines indicating the purpose of the folder and add an icon or small image to make it more attractive.
9. Object Importer
   You don't want to start with an empty system. You will have many documents to bulk-load from existing systems. Object Importer is the perfect tool for this. Make sure you have some Excel templates ready which can be used to generate the XML you need easily.
10. A good viewer
    The 'View as webpage' option is simply not that good. A viewer like Brava can be a nice (but expensive) replacement with a lot of additional options you may use later on (markups, limiting downloading/printing of classified documents). It especially becomes a 'must have' when you have engineering drawings in your system.

I got an email yesterday from Marburg with an attachment for me to fill out to sign up for the orientation program at the beginning of October.

It's when I start having forms like that to fill out that I realize that I'm going to Germany in three months. Crazy!

Valerie left me a message on my Facebook this morning that Giessen (where she'll be studying) is like 10 minutes from Marburg. There was a considerable moment of win when we realized that a fellow Wittenberger would be close by in case of panic attacks. Unfortunately though, it doesn't look like Valerie and I could grab a coffee or anything together on her way out to Giessen on the 1st, I'll be all tied up with orientation stuff.

Here's what the orientation schedule looks like at the moment:

Monday:
From 09.00 a.m. Welcome and breakfast in the "Milchbar" (follow signs) at the Mensa (student restaurant)
10.00 a.m. Allocation of the reserved accommodation; Shuttle to the dormitories until 16.00
11.00 a.m. Orientation in the dormitories (duration: approx. 1 hour)
08.00 p.m. Optional: Meet in town

Tuesday:
09:00 a.m. Breakfast
10:00 a.m. Formalities: Residence Registration and Alien’s Office, Bank account, health insurance
12:00 noon Optional lunch, thereafter: free time
13:30 p.m. Formalities: Residence Registration and Alien’s Office, Bank account, health insurance
15.00 p.m. Placement test for German language course at lecture hall 2001, Biegenstraße 12
21:00 Welcome of the new international students at the Schwarz-Weiss-Café in the “Student Village (Studentendorf)”

Wednesday:
10:00 a.m. Formalities
12:30 p.m. Optional lunch at Mensa
14:00 Preparations for the communal dinner: Shopping and cooking
19:00 Communal dinner and party at the Schwarz-Weiss-Café in the ”Student Village” (Studentendorf)

Thursday:
13:00 Distribution of student documents and semester ticket (enrolment), Biegenstraße 10, room 02011
14.30 p.m. Town rallye
16.00 p.m. Awarding of prize to the best team of the town rallye

Friday:
15:00 Study formalities for exchange students (important information, for instance explanation of the transcript procedure!). Presentation of the departments by their representatives

Saturday**
11:00 Departure for the weekend in Wetzlar Meet at Stadthalle (Biegenstrasse)
12:00 Arrival in Wetzlar; followed by lunch
15:00 Preparations for the evening and pastime activities
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Spend evening together

Sunday**
09:00 Breakfast
10:00 Sightseeing tour of the surrounding area
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Departure for Marburg

We will begin with a example between the Database and Paging class. We start by including the two classes in our default.php page using 'require'. We create objects of our classes and we simply start with a connection to our database and starts our paging.

$data = new Database('database', 'server', 'user', 'password');
$paging = new Paging('SELECT * FROM person', 5, 'result' ,$data);

This is what we need to do to instantiate our classes. Next up is to loop through the resultset the paging object gets. In this example we will use the public fetchObject() method in the Paging class.

while($rs = $paging->fetchObject()):
echo $rs->username . '<br/>';
endwhile;

To finish off this example we need to echo out the paging links.

echo $paging->getLinks();

Simple! We are done! To get the example working you need to make sure database, server, user and password are correct to access your MySQL database. The SQL string needs to be replaced by a real SQL string and lastly, the $rs->username must be change to a column name in your resultset.

• Download the Database and Paging example

Next up a Database and Record class example. We start again by creating objects of our Database and Record class:

$data = new Database('database', 'server', 'user', 'password');
$record = new Record('person', 'id', $data);

After that we go straight to save a new record in the person table. In the example I know that there are two fields in the person table: username and password. Since we didn't include fields in the instantiating of the Record class all fields in the person table is open to us.

$record->username = 'Niklas';
$record->password = 'test';

And lastly we save the record using the save() method making a new record entry in the person table.

$record->save();

We continue with the example and this time we are going to try to find an entry using the find() method and update the password. We are going search for the latest inserted user. Since we just added a new user to the person table we will access that tuple and update the password value.

$record = new Record('person', 'id', $data);
$id = $data->fetchTuple('SELECT id FROM person ORDER BY id DESC');
$record->find($id);

We be sure we have a record to work with we echo out both the username and the password.

echo $record->username;
echo $record->password;

The result will be 'Niklas' and 'test'. OK, now we want to update the password from 'test' to 'updated'. Lastly we save the record and echo out the password to see if the task is complete.

$record->password = 'updated';
$record->save();
echo $record->password;

The answer: 'updated'. Perfect! To be sure that the value is saved in the database you need to check the table using your MySQL Query Browser or simple create a new Record object and find the id we just updated. Now we have code for saving a new record and updating an existing one.

• Download the Database and Record example

We continue with another example between the Database and Forms class. We will first create a form from scratch and then try to auto generate one using the generate() method in the Forms class. The last task will be a bit hard to just download and get up and running smoothly since it's tightly integrated with my personal MySQL database. Anyway, you will see the idea on how to use the classes.

We start as we did before with creating objects from our classes:

$data = new Database('database', 'server', 'user', 'password');
$form = new Form('GET', 'example_database_forms.php');

We use the same Database settings as before and the Form object will use 'GET' as the method and go to the example_database_forms.php page on submit. We will create two fields, a username field, password field and then include a submit button.

$form->addField('username', 'text', array('required'=>true, 'format'=>'letter', 'value'=>'Username', 'min'=>3));
$form->addField('password', 'password', array('required'=>true, 'format'=>'string', 'value'=>'Password'));
$form->addField('submit', 'submit', array('value'=>'Submit'));
echo $form->create();

Both fields are required, we have set a format pattern, letter and string, and the Username field got a min validation rule. Both fields also got a default value and the labels are showing. We have more validation and styling rules to use on our Form:

• label: set the label for each field.
• showLabel: true or false, decides if the field label should be visible or not.
• boxClass: each field is surrounded by a div box, this sets the class of that box.
• fieldClass: each field has a class, this sets the class of the field.
• snippet: a code snippet which is placed at the very end of the field.

To include one more validation rule you simply include a key => value into the last parameter, the array. This example requires not only the Database and Forms class to be included, the Common class is used by the Forms class and must be included too. We cannot forget about the validation JavaScript either so in the head we insert that.

Now we have created a small form from scratch and now we will auto-generate a form based on a MySQL table. To do this we need to provide a database object and a table name when we create our Forms object.

$form = new Form('POST', 'example_database_forms.php', array('db'=>$data, 'table'=>'person'));

The auto-generation of the form is simple. The next line does it all for us.

$form->generate();

Now we have the whole table as a form in our Form object. We can't see anything on the screen because we haven't created the HTML tags yet. In the example we are not using any default values and rules either. The next example is taken care of that. But, back to this example first. All we need to do now is to include a submit button and echo out the form.

$form->addField('submit', 'submit', array('value'=>'Submit'));
echo $form->create();

These four lines of code have generated a form from a table. You notice will notice a little * in the right corner of the labels, those are required. The generate() method takes care of a lot of cool things.

We stick to the Forms class example for a little while longer. Now we will try to fill an auto-generated Form with default value. Say we want to edit a user in our database. We will also say that each field requires to be longer than 3 chars. To complete this task there are a few things we must look at.

1. First include the Record class so we will be able to get the user values.
2. Give the generate() method a parameter.

So, we still start with including the Record class and then the instantiating of the objects:

require'(lib/Record.php');
$record = new Record('person', 'id',  $data);
$form = new Form('POST', 'example_database_forms.php', array('db'=>$data, 'table'=>'person'));

Next we need to fetch the values from a $record object. We start with a search to find the user we are looking for and then fetching the values from that user.

$id = $data->fetchTuple('SELECT id FROM person ORDER BY id DESC');
$record->find($id);
$values = $record->getValues();

OK, we search for the last inserted user id and used the find() method in the Record class and saved the values from that class into a local variable $values. All we have to do now is to include those values in the generate() method parameter. We also said that each field must be at least 3 chars long, this is also included in the generate() parameter.

$form->generate(array('values'=>$values, 'min'=>3));

Simple. Now if you look at your result, and everything is OK, you will see that your form has default values and when submitting is check so each field is longer that 3 chars. We end it all with adding a submit button and echo the form out.

$form->addField('submit', 'submit', array('value'=>'Submit'));
echo $form->create();

• Download the Database and Forms example

The final example will be between the Database, Forms and Record classes again. We will take a look how you fast and easy can save a whole form using just a few lines. Our header will look like this:

require('lib/Database.php');
require('lib/Common.php');
require('lib/Form.php');
require('lib/Record.php');
session_start();

We have included everything we need and we start off by creating our Database object:

$data = new Database('database', 'server', 'user', 'password');

Nothing new there, the Database object has been the same throughout all these examples. Next we do a check if a $_GET['create'] has been provided. If it is, we are going to save the incoming information otherwise we echo out our form. Now, you shouldn't use 'GET' when you are posting things, especially not registration forms. This is just a example so we are able to see which information we are sending. Do NOT use 'GET' in real applications.

The Form object will not look that different from before. We have added a hidden field named 'create' to the form just so we can catch that in our if / else statement.

if(isset($_GET['create'])) {
$record = new Record('person', 'id', $data);
$record->set($_GET);
$record->save();
echo 'User is saved!';
} else {
$form = new Form('GET', 'example_database_forms_record.php');
$form->addField('username', 'text', array('required'=>true, 'format'=>'letter', 'min'=>3));
$form->addField('password', 'password', array('required'=>true, 'format'=>'string'));
$form->addField('create', 'hidden', array('value'=>true));
$form->addField('submit', 'submit', array('value'=>'Submit'));
echo $form->create();
}

So there you have it! A few examples on how to use the classes we have been working on! Everyone is available for download so you can check them out more carefully. Just remember to change the parameters so they will work in your machine and towards your MySQL database. Enjoy!

• Download the Database, Forms and Record example
• Download all examples

You can change the timeout value by modifying the web.config

for example:

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name=".ASPXFORMSDEMO" loginUrl="./logon.aspx" protection="All" path="/" timeout="2400" />
</authentication>

Introducing The Schoolhouse Planner~
everything you need to plan both your school and your home!

Not only is the planner digital and interactive,
but in it you can expect to find:

·         Calendars in various forms – yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily

·         Lists of holidays and places to record special days in your family

·         Planners for your homeschool – in various styles to meet your individual needs

·         Pages for both long-term and short-term homeschooling goals

·         Curriculum planning forms

·         Evaluation forms and test score recording sheets

·         A through-the-Bible in a (school) year schedule

·         Forms for recording Bible memory and other memory work

·         Logs for recording books read, movies and documentaries viewed, etc.

·         A field trip planning form and recording log

·         A sample science lab sheet and nature study sheets

·         A place to record extracurricular activities

·         Outside classes, co-op, and support group information and recording sheets

·         Household planning forms

·         Daily, weekly, and monthly household schedule charts

·         Grocery, menu-planning, and food logs

·         Various budget and financial planning forms

·         Garden planning sheets

·         An appliance and electronics inventory sheet

·         Vacation planning ideas

·         Address and telephone records

And more…..

• 12 “homeschool must-know” items, one for each month of the year
• 12 essays from some of our favorite authors in the homeschool community – you absolutely won’t want to miss these!
• 24 easy main-dish recipes from some top homeschoolers around the nation
• Forms that are appropriate for preschool – graduation
• A 12-year planning form, so that you can plan your child’s school career from beginning to end!
• 2-page monthly calendar with BIG blocks with lots of room for writing in details each day

For a sneak peek of The Schoolhouse Planner,
click here.

Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe – Formulare, Formulare

In der analogen Welt geht es Ihnen wohl auch genauso wie mir. Wenn man den Satz „Bitte füllen Sie dieses Formular aus“ hört, stellen sich den meisten Menschen die Haare auf. Man wird von der Geburt bis zum Tode mit Forumlare richtiggehend belästigt.

Ganz anders im Web:

Im Internet basieren praktisch alle Interaktionen mit dem Besucher darauf.

Es gilt, Kommentare abzugeben, Anfragen oder Bestellungen abzuschicken oder mit dem Betreiber der Webseite Kontakt aufzunehmen (und vieles mehr).

Ich möchte Ihnen hier ein einfaches Formular vorstellen:

(Beispieldatei: (17,7KB zip-Datei) hier downloaden )

¶ Das Formular im HTML-Quelltext ¶

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="de" xml:lang="de"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <title>Kommentar-Formular</title> </head> <body> <form action="http://example.org/" method="post"> <div> <span>Kommentar schreiben</span> <label for="name">Name</label> <input type="text" name="name" id="name" /> <label for="e-mail">E-Mail</label> <input type="text" name="e-mail" id="e-mail" /> <label for="homepage">Homepage</label> <input type="text" name="homepage" id="homepage" /> <label for="kommentar">Kommentar</label> <textarea cols="30" rows="15" name="kommentar" id="kommentar"></textarea> <input type="submit" value="Absenden" id="senden" /> </div> </form> </body> </html>

Sie haben hier die Möglichkeit, die obige html.datei als Word-Dokument herunterzuladen und ohne CSS zu testen.

Dieser Quelltext erzeugt ohne den Einsatz von CSS folgendes Formular:

Zum Vergrößern auf die Grafik klicken!

„Das sieht doch etwas komisch aus!“ werden Sie sagen. Das stimmt. Mit einer kleinen Änderung im Quellcode sieht das Formular gleich besser aus:

<div> <label for="name">Name</label> <input type="text" name="name" id="name" /> </div> <div> <label for="e-mail">E-Mail</label> <input type="text" name="e-mail" id="e-mail" /> </div> <div> <label for="homepage">Homepage</label> <input type="text" name="homepage" id="homepage" / </div> <div> <label for="kommentar">Kommentar</label> <textarea cols="30" rows="15" name="kommentar" id="kommentar"></textarea> </div> <div> <input type="submit" value="Absenden" id="senden" /> </div>

Ersetzen Sie den ursprünglichen Quellcode mit dieser kleinen Korrektur, und das Formular sieht schon viel ansprechender aus.

Source: Beispiel-Quelltext als doc-datei herunterladen: formular1_html

Zum Vergrößern auf die Grafik klicken!

Das Formular jetzt sieht zwar einigermaßen aus, es fehlen jedoch noch die entsprechenden Formatierungen mit Cascading Style Sheets. (werden im ursprünglichen HTML-Quellcode (index.html) vorgenommen!)

a) Innen- und Außenabstände werden alle auf „0“ gesetzt: * { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

b) Formatierung von html und body html { background: #1B3582; color: #5978A5; font: 68.75%/1.1 verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } body { padding: 30px; }

c) Positionierung von <form> und <span> form, span { position: absolute; } form { margin: 8em; }

Durch die Festlegung von margin: 8em wird das Formular von der linken oberen Ecke mehr in die Seitenmitte gesetzt. Sie können den Seitenabstand zu Übungszwecken je nach Belieben austauschen.

d) Floaten von <label>, <input> und <textarea> und Formatierung derselben: label, input, textarea { float: left; } label { clear: left; padding-top: .5em; width: 100px; }

Durch das Floaten sind die einzelnen Elemente des Formulars nun untereinander angeordnet.

e) Formatierung der div-Box, des Eingabefeldes und des Kommentarfeldes input, textarea { border: 0; color: #193076; font: 1em/1.0 verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 5px 9px 3px; } input { background: url(bilder/eingabefeld.gif); height: 15px; width: 212px; } textarea { background: url(bilder/kommentarfeld.gif); height: 220px; width: 325px; } div { background: #FFF url(bilder/ecke.gif) top left no-repeat; overflow: hidden; padding: 1em; width: 470px; } span { color: #FFF; font-size: 2em; line-height: 1.0; left: 120px; top: -1.5em; } #senden { background: url(bilder/bestaetigung.gif) center right no-repeat; color: #193076; height: 2.5em; margin-left: 100px; padding: 5px 0; text-decoration: underline; width: 343px; }

Das Eingabefeld und das Kommentarfeld erhalten eine eigene Hintergrund-Grafik (eingabefeld.gif und kommentarfeld.gif).

Die div-Box bekommt in der linken oberen Ecke auch eine kleine Grafik (ecke.gif). Dadurch kommt es hier zu einer Abrundung der Ecke und zu einer optischen Aufwertung.

Im Eingabefeld input#senden wird auf der rechten Seite die Grafik bestaetigung.gif (sieht toll aus!) eingesetzt.

Das HTML-Element <span> habe ich mit color:#fff und  font-size: 2em positioniert. Außerdem habe ich der Überschrift „Kommentar abgeben“ eine linken Seitenabstand von 120px zugeteilt.

Das fertige Stylesheet sieht dann folgendermaßen aus:

(Beispieldatei: (17,7KB zip-Datei) hier downloaden )

Das fertige Kommentar-Formular sieht danach so aus:

(zum Vergrößern bitte auf die Grafik klicken!)

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Request this towards everyman themselves severalize. The communication technology and networks won't find the solution the genuine article. What for discharge superego experience imaginatively that is?

• Client is going to meet with Other Company.

• Client sends Other Company our form for the proposed transaction.

• Client's counterpart at Other Company sends our form to his or her legal contact.

• His or her legal contact says, "No, use our form."

• Other Company's form comes back to client via email, usually with a note that says, "My legal wants us to use our form."

• Client forwards that email to me telling me that it would save a lot of time if we used the other party's form.

How does that last bit follow? Uh... It doesn't.

Client, most likely, hasn't worked very much with a legal department. If he had, he would know that even if we use the other party's form, we will need to negotiate it. We need the terms we need. They can be in the other party's form, or our form. But they need to be there. Contracts, including forms, aren't magical documents. They merely reflect what the parties agree to.

Often, in fact, using the other side's form takes much, much longer. When does this occur? Usually when one party has very specific needs in their form or has much better information about the facts of the transaction. For instance, companies that do a lot of software hosting know service level agreements. They know about latency. They know about what sort of credits customers are looking for. So, if a company that knows hosting drafts a service level agreement, it will be a lot closer to industry standards than a company that doesn't know what it's doing and asks for all sorts of crazy stuff.

Now suppose an ignorant company drafts up a service level agreement and says, "Here, use our form." Will this shorten the time to close the deal? Not at all, since the other party (assume they are sophisticated about these sorts of deals) has to add in all the material terms. Not only is this a huge pain, it takes a long time and can lead to a really crappy document. Better and faster to use the form that most closely fits the facts of the deal.

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If you have not yet submitted your Membership Forms/Enrolment Forms/Re-Enrolment Forms, please do so immediately. You may download a form here and submit it to your Officers.

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	Junior Section	Receipt #
1	Titus Nathaniel	1418
2	Ronan Shak	1419
3	Jeffrey Tan Jit Fei	1420
4	Shamalan	1421
5	Nathaniel Tay	1422
6	Gh Yu Shem	1423
7	Eric Arvyndra	1446
8	Alvin Yem	1447
9	Keith Chin	1448
10	Leong Rong Fei	1449
11	Hoh Shon Sern	1450
12	Derek Poon	1451
13	Calwyn Chin	1452
14	Jord Cheah	1453
15	Yong Kai John	1454
16	Loo Yoong Jian	1455
17	Daniel Ooi	1456
18	Sean Ooi	1457
19	Bryan Tan	1458
20	Shane The	1459
21	Ng Han Yu	1460
22	Au Kar Fei	1461
23	Wong Hao Yang	1462
24	Lawrence Loh	1463
25	Issac Chow	1464
26	Jaron Tan	1465
27	Dineshwar	1466
28	Teng Thye Hui	1467
29	Richard Yip	1468
30	Yip Ken Too	1469
31	Lim Jian Sheng	1471
32	Lim Jian Qi	1472
33	Andrew Hang	1473
34	Mathavan Raj	1474
35	Caleb Andrew Nunis	1475
36	Lim Jian Zhi	1486
37	Mok Wai Kheng	1488
38	Hashwin Kumaran	1489
39	Lucas Teoh	1490
40	Victor Devadason	1491
41	Loi Kit Hoe	1505
42	Sean Lee Soon Kit	1506
43	Ho Jun Loong	1508
44	Lu Yi Wen	1514
45	Ho Shi Ern	1515
46	Alvin Ho	1515
47	Sean Ho	1515
48	D Logadevan	1516
49	Alex Ang	1517
50	Steven Wong	1522
51	Wong Zhu Hock	1523
52	G Puvanan	1524
53	Wong Jia Jian, Micah	1525
54	Mah Jun Yi	1526
55	Chen Bao Jie	1527
56	Kennard Lam Junn Wye	1528
57	Frederick Chong	1529

	Senior Section	Receipt #
1	Wong Jun Kit	1417
2	Au Kar Hoe	1424
3	Calvin Xavier	1425
4	Lee Jia Wen	1426
5	Samuel Ooi	1427
6	Ivan Lim	1428
7	Christopher Poon	1429
8	Clarence Chin	1430
9	Jordan Chin	1431
10	Lee Min Yuen	1432
11	Gordon Tay	1433
12	Ng Kee Ann	1434
13	Ng Woei An	1435
14	Lee Jia Sheng	1436
15	Au Wai Soon	1437
16	Liew Zhen Yuan	1438
17	Loke Voon Ho	1439
18	Jeremy Chang	1440
19	Matthew Ooi	1441
20	Yong Sai Hong	1442
21	Adrian Yem	1443
22	Isaac Tay	1444
23	Lai Choon How	1476
24	Benny Tham	1477
25	Jonathan Lai	1478
26	Ng Heng Yip	1479
27	Koh Hong Zheng	1480
28	Wong Jin Zhao	1481
29	Kwong Tjun Yip	1482
30	Lim Tau Wei	1483
31	Phillip Moh	1484
32	Tan Yong Qian	1485
33	See Cheong Foo	1487
34	Liew Wei Bing	1492
35	Ng Chun Hwa	1493
36	Liew Tuck Onn	1494
37	Kong Wey Luek	1495
38	Liew Toh Seng	1496
39	Kaw Chee Fei	1497
40	Loi Kin Hoe	1498
41	Joash Lim Yong Choon	1499
42	Ong Yu Yang	1500
43	Woo Xian Yang	1501
44	Han Chen Yue	1502
45	Low Yuk Ming	1503
46	Loi Kah Hoe	1504
47	Goh Yu Shaun	1507
48	Ng Wei Shung	1509
49	Andy Yem	1511
50	Richmond Kwong	1511
51	Beh Wei Ten	1512
52	Anthony Khoo	1513
53	John Ho	1515
54	Jonathan Chooi	1518
55	Hoh Shon Yin	1519
56	Brandon Choo	1520
57	Tharmadavan	1521
58	Chan Yan Xun	1530
59	Kho Jen Wei	1531
60	Jason Tham	1532

]]> http://dmui4031.wordpress.com/?p=61 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:22:57 +0000 Daniel Munoz http://dmui4031.wordpress.com/?p=61 A weekend ago, my good friend Leo and I, set out on an adventure.  We went to go see our hero, Evan Chen, compete in his first Tae Kwon Do tournament in years.  The tournament was in Ocean Side.  It was very hot, very sunny, and the competition outdoors.  Fun.  Anyhow.  Before we even arrived at the tournament, the brain child himself (Evan Chen) decided to by pass a couple of these: 

in hopes of getting better parking.  Well of course the next thing we encountered was one of these:

So basicaly, this cool guy took both of our licenses and threatened us with $800 fines.  Yay.  Oh and by the way it turns out my license had been surrendered so he came back with my license and was by all means THRILLED about that piece of news.  The conversation went something like this:

Daniel: I'm sorry I was lost I've never been here before officer, please be lenient! I was just following my friend!

Cop:  RAWR! I hate you! I hope your stupid friend is gonna pay your ticket! Also your license is surrendered! WHY!?

Daniel: Oh dear officer! I don't even know what that means! Why would my license be surrendered?

Cop: I ASKED YOU! WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME WHY IT WOULD BE SURRENDERED!

... Great start to the day.  Anyhow, he sent us on our way and told us never be stupid again.  No fines.  Thank God.

So the day went well.  We spent it here:

At the Lite Tae Kwon Do Championship!  Because Evan is a lite fighter.  HAH! you see what I did there?  Really though, we spent it here:

The Elite Tae Kwon Do Championship!  Aren't those kicking Asian guys so cool?  Anyhow.  Evan took first place in his forms!  And as for sparring... well lets just say he was stone cold out there.  This what he looked like right before he saw his opponent:

Look at that face.  It has "grr I'm a killer and I'm gonna dominate anything that steps in my way" written all over it.  But then he saw his nemesis!

and his face now says.."oh...crap" ? Or something along those lines.  No but seriously.  He did well.  I have video proof.  After I am done editing it into an amazing movie.  I will post the video of our day in Ocean Side.  Until then.  Kudos Mr. Evan Chen.  Kudos.

"Modifying collections, such as the columns in a DataGridView, in inherited forms or controls is currently an unsupported scenario."
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=284335&wa=wsignin1.0

Fortunately, there is a workaround that seems to fix the problems I have with it.

Create a user control class, and paste the following code:

[sourcecode language='csharp'][Designer(typeof System.Windows.Forms.Design.ControlDesigner))]
public class ucInheritedDataGridView : DataGridView { }[/sourcecode]

Now refer to ucInheritedDataGridView every where you would have an inherited DataGridView.

• validate_field()
• validate_value()
• check_value()

From the JavaScript page we are calling the validation.php page with three get variables:

• form: holding the name of the form we want to validate (makes it possible to access the correct $_SESSION object).
• field: is the name of the current field we are going to validate.
• value: the value found in the active form.

We begin with the code answering to the request from the JavaScript file. First we assign the incoming get variables to some local variables. We see if we can find our form and the validation rules for the field. If everything is OK so far we send our value and field to the validate_field() function.

The validate_field() function takes two parameters, a $value and a $field. In our case the $field parameter will contain everything we provided when we created our form object. We set up a few local variables $options, $type and $name, which are all found in the $field parameter. Then we see if we can find any 'required' key in the options array, and if it is true. If it is set and true we go another step in. We see if the length of the value is equals with 0 and that we don't have a 'exist' key OR that the value equals 0 and the type of the field is 'checkbox'. If any of these two are valid, the specific field is required and we will echo that out as an error. The reason we do these test is:

• In the first expression the exist key is only available for blobs. If a blob already exist in the database we don't want to supply it every time we edit the field. The 'exist' key is set when we have a value in the database and don't want to remove that.
• The second expression is used when we have checkboxes. Remember the JavaScript function calculating all the checkboxes checked with a specific name? The return from that function is the value in this case. If none of the checkboxes is checked and the field is required, we will echo the error.

After the 'required' key check we take a look at the 'format' key and make sure that it exists, we also make sure we haven't already printed any error and that the length of the field is not equal to 0. If the boolean turns into true we are stepping into the validate_value() function. If we have found any error we will return the error list and echo that one out. Otherwise we will return false.

Next up is validate_value(). This function takes three parameters, $value, $options and $name. We assign some local variables with the value from the parameters. Depending on the format of the field we use a switch/case loop to validate the content of the field. For example a 'number' can only match 0-9 chars. When we find our matching format we are using the check_value() function. The only case diverting from this is the 'file' case. Here we have a few extra checks which is available for the file input field. We are able to set a upload folder, allowed extensions, max size to name them.

The last function, check_value() is simple. It takes 6 parameters: $value, $regexp, $name, $min, $max and $type. What we do here is to match our string with the incoming regexp. If the format isn't valid we will mark that. If a min or max key is supplied we check those validation rules to. Finally we will return the whole error string, if any errors where found.

And that's it! That's the end of this presentation and the end of the PHP Class series #1. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome! The full Forms Class can be downloaded below!

• Download the full Forms class
• Continue reading about the Forms Class
• Continue reading about the Forms Class Validation script

So, what are we to do? Should we compile the log-in info in a digital file, paper file, online account, or other means of information storage? Or should we just try to memorize all of it? Must we create "backup" profiles and accounts, or should we avoid investing in sites which hold so much of our precious data? Is the key to success in the online realm a novel one--namely, view your online activity as a form of gambling. Only gamble that which you can afford to lose, and that would be trivial information at that. The time spent building and using these sites could be seen as entertainment. Any loss would not be felt, b/c at least we enjoyed the process of using the service.

And now that major companies are getting bought-out each month, the online world is turning into a conglomerate the way the rest of the Mass Media already is. And with it goes all of our services--email, social network, blogs, photos, videos, podcasts, websites, news sites, eCommerce, phone records, chat history, etc.

For example, how will a competitor buying Yahoo, Facebook, or any other major player affect your online status? What could happen if Microsoft, News Corp, or Google suddenly owned all of your emails? How does CBS's aquisition of CNET effect our Tech News and Product Reviews? Obviously, CBS should allow the talented crew at CNET to continue operating the site with the knowledge and skill they have displayed over the past several years.

So, in summary, I began this article with a look at the CHAOS of all the different sites that compete for our attention. I showed how it can get confusing to remember all of our user names and passwords. But at the same time, I am fearful of a buyout that would give us all one online log-in ID, like a Microsoft or Google Account that contained our eMail, News Feeds, Podcast manager, Social Network, etc. In that scenerio, the Federal Government and Large Corporations have us in the palm of their hands. They know us so well that they can expose our communications (like Blackmail), view our trade secrets and company correspondance, see who our online friends are, view (and own) our photos and videos, etc. Do you want to give that much power to one entity? Or do we try to seek out little accounts for each of our online services with totally different companies around the world, and do our best to manage our log-in information and keep separate our email, photos, videos, etc with totally different accounts that can't easily be associated with each other--except by out ISP...

Well, in that case, we all need to download those famous "Anonymous Online" Filters that route our web traffic through 8 different servers to hide our activity and ultimately our identity. The same filters that slow down our browsing speed in the process of protecting our identity and location.

Comments appreciated.

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Now, we know that AJAX and JavaScript is fancy, sadly not everybody (I think around 6% of the Internet users) don't have JavaScript enabled. This JavaScript will therefore not work for these people, and that's a shame! Maybe some day I will update this PHP class with a working non-JavaScript version.

The JS file we are going to work with is small, only 84 lines. It contains 6 functions, no global variables. We have the following functions to present:

• validate(): the function we will call from our form submit button
• check_field(): a help function to validate(). It will call our AJAX object.
• check_checkbox(): if a checkbox field is required this is where we check that.
• num_boxes(): counts how many fields of a specific type and name we have.
• _activeObject(): creates our ActiveXObject/XMLHttpRequest.
• _call: the active XMLHttpRequst function making the AJAX page call.

That wasn't much? We start with the validate() function. This is the function our form submit tag will call when we want to be validated. The function creates a error_list as a array and make sure we have a div tag to display our AJAX messages, this div tag is auto-generated via the Forms class draw() function. The function takes one parameter, the form we are going to validate. We will go through each field calling the check_field() function as soon as we find a field not matching submit, hidden or radio. Depending on the result of the check_field() function we will set an 'error' or 'OK' label on the field. When every form field has been validated our error_list array will be filled with all the possible errors. We will print out all errors in our div tag if we find any. The function will return true if the form is valid.

I said that the check_field() function was just a help function for the validate() function. The only thing it does is to fetch the value from the current field, if the field type is a checkbox we will see if any are checked using the check_checkbox() function. This is done because if the field is required we don't have a value to match with if it's empty. Lastly we call the _call() function.

I will not go through the check_checkbox() and num_boxes() functions that much. The only thing they do is:

• check_checkbox(): takes a form and a index. We loop through the form search for all other checkboxes with the same name and if they are checked. If they are checked we know that at if the field is required, that validation rule is approved.
• num_boxes(): takes a form, index and a type. This function can be used to find all similar form field types. We use this function when we start validating one checkbox and notice that it contains errors, then we want to jump over the remaining checkboxes with the same name since we know that they are invalid.

This function is simple and doesn't need that much representing. It's the standard way creating a ActiveXObject/XMLHttpRequest.

Lastly we are looking at the function making the AJAX request, the _call() function. It will take a full url as it's 'page' parameter and use 'GET' to send the page and request the response text. This function uses the _activeObject to create our Request. The _call() function returns the text it recivies and it will end up in the error_list found in the first validate() function.

So there we have it. The JavaScript file for the Form Class. Remember we cannot use this script until the validation PHP page is done. Hang on, soon to come, the PHP Form Class: Validation.

• Download the full Forms Class
• Continue reading about the Forms Class
• Continue reading about the Forms Class Validation

1. Extracting all form tags and attributes into our Forms class.
2. Auto-generate a form based on a table in a MySQL database.
3. Validate form fields using keywords such as letter, number, string, email, text and file.
4. Add, edit and delete form fields from a form based on a table or built from scratch.

Okay, looking a bit closer at our goals we see that the second goal is rather complex. If we manage to pull it off it will be really sweet. We need to handle normal form fields, text fields, file fields and select boxes, radio boxes and checkboxes. And all this needs to be auto-generate just using information from our MySQL database. We will work with three different pages: the one handling the Forms Class, the JavaScript handling the AJAX and the PHP validation script. Before we continue I want to tell you that none of these PHP classes is 100% correct or flawless. I'm posting them here to get input from you and share my ideas.

All 4 goals will be reach using 12 different functions and 7 private class variables and 1 static privat  variable. We start presenting the private class variables:

• $_fields: is a array containing all form fields
• $_method: is either 'POST' or 'GET', used when applying the <form> tag.
• $_action: contains the URL we should go to when the form is validated an submitted.
• $_id: each form we create will have a unique id, we can either provide one or it will get an auto-generate form id.
• $_db: holds and database instance.
• $_table: the name of a database table.
• $_validate: a boolean variable telling us to validate or not.
• $_numForms: the static private variable, counting how many forms we create.

The functions in the form.php file are:

• public __construct(): initializing our form object.
• public addField(): we use this to add a form field to our object.
• public getField(): returns the given form field.
• public setField(): updates a given form field.
• public setAttribute(): updates a attribute of a field in the form fields arra.
• public removeField(): removes a given form field.
• public generate(): generates a form from a specific MySQL database table.
• private createField(): creates the actual html markup
• private createLabel(): help function to createField(), generates a label.
• pubic validate(): makes it possible to turn off the validation script.
• public create(): sets everything together.
• public view(): used for debug.

Starting with the __construct() function we are required to supply at least 2 parameters: $method and $action. They have the same task as in normal HTML markup, the $method decide if we should use 'GET' or 'POST'. The $action let us know where we are suppose to go when the form is valid and submitted. Then we are able to supply a third parameter in a array. The array can have an 'id', 'db' and 'table' key. Even though the Form Class gives a unique id to every form we create we might want to supply our own id, this is done here. As for the 'db' and 'table' key, these are used when we want to auto generate a form using the generate() function. Since the third parameter is optional we don't need to supple a 'db' and 'table' to be able to create a form from scratch. At the very end of the function we create a $_SESSION which we will use when we validate. The main task of the function is to assign our private class variables with the incoming parameters. We are using static class functions from the Common Class.

Next, public addField(). The function takes 3 parameters, 2 required, 1 optional. The required once are $name, $type and the optional $attributes.

• $name: the name of the field.
• $type: which type the field should be. (text, password, textarea, select, radio, checkbox)
• $attributes: a vast list of key => value entries in an array. Each one will be described in the validation presentation.

The function assigns new fields into our class variable $_fields. If we find a field with the type = file we change the private variable $method to post. The $attribute parameter is the magic parameter holding all information regarding validation. We check if we want to show labels and if we find any 'snippets'. A snippet is a piece of code we want to add afte