HTML
So you have the need to let the user upload documents of any type to your server, but you don't know how to implement it. Some people say store them in the DB, others hate that and store the files on the file system. Which way do you go? Well, that depends on the requirements and the way the application is designed. I really try to stay away from storing binary content on the DB, but sometimes it is the best approach. On my case I didn't want a user accessing the file in any other way than through the...
As promised, here I am back with some basic HTML concepts. You can take this post as the promised second part of "Oh my, look at that HTML." Anyway, let's get started.As mentioned before, HTML is the most basic part of a website and if it's not well formed, then it might not render as we intended. Here are some basic concepts:1. HTML is very similar to XML, but it's neither XML nor a subset of it. As opposed to XML, HTML is more forgiven. It is not case sensitive and not all tags have to have an ending tag.2....
As most of us would know, HTML is the most basic you can get when you program for web. If your HTML is not right then your page will not look right. Each browser renders HTML differently, especially when it's malformed. Internet Explorer is the most forgiven of them all, but the other browser are less or not forgiven at all. Ok, what do we do about it? You can do a number of things. The first and most important one; learn HTML and learn it the right way. There are a number of tutorials on the web.Then you need...