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Monday, 7 April 2014

Reading XML file - PHP

The easiest and simplest way to read XML file is using SimpleXML.

We'll consider a simple XML file test.xml with the following nodes and values.

<root>

<node1>Hello</node1>

<node2>World</node2>

<node3>This is simple Example of Parsing XML files </node3>

<root>

Loading a XML file

$xml=simplexml_load_file("filename");

Parsing a Node value

$node=$xml->node_name;

Example to demonstrate the usage of simpleXML

<?php
$xml=simplexml_load_file("test.xml");
echo $xml ->node3;
echo '<br/>';
foreach($xml->children() as $child)   // children() get all the child nodes in the XML file.
{
      echo 'Node_name: '.$child ->getName().'   ';      // displays the node_name.
     echo 'Node_value: '.$child.'<br/>';   // displays the node value.
}
?>

Output will be displayed as follows

This is a simple example of parsing XML files
Node_name: node1 Node_value: Hello
Node_name: node2 Node_value: World
Node_name: node3 Node_value: This is a simple example of parsing XML files

Nodes having nested nodes can be parsed using the above method by using foreach loop.

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Difference between 2 Dates - Javascript

This Script finds the difference between 2 dates. The result is Days Count.

Date Object.

Initializing Dates

new Date() // current date and time
new Date(milliseconds) //milliseconds since 1970/01/01
new Date(dateString) // mm/dd/yyyy format
new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)

example

Difference between 04/04/2014 and 04/08/2014 is 1.

Code Block

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
   function getDateDifference()
   {
       var date1 = new Date("20/04/2014");
       var now = new Date();
       var timeDiff = (date1.getTime() -now.getTime()); // gets the timeDifference in milliseconds.

/* Converts the TimeDifference to Total no of days

3600- Time for 1 hr in secs (60*60);

3600*24 - Time for 1 day in secs.

1000 * 3600*24 - Time for 1 day in milliseconds.

The Math.ceil(x) function returns the smallest integer greater than or equal to a number "x".

             diffDays = Math.ceil(timeDiff / (1000 * 3600 * 24));
       alert(diffDays);
   }
</script>
</head>
   <body>
       <script>getDateDifference();</script>
   </body>
</html>

References

Sunday, 6 April 2014

Including multiple PHP files.

Use of Including files.

Including multiple PHP files helps Maintainability
Huge blocks of code can be split into small useful blocks which can be included wherever necessary.
Re-usability of code.

How To

Using Require.

Produces a fatal-error (E_COMPILE_ERROR) and stops the script if the Code fails to load the Script file.

Using Include.

Produces a warning (E_WARNING) and Resumes the script upon failure.

Based on Requirements choose whether to use Require or Include.

Syntax :

<?php include 'script_name.php ' ?>

<?php require 'script_name.php' ?>

Example

echo " Hello World <br/>" ;

echo "This Message is Displayed by the Included file test.php <br/> " ;

<?php

echo "This is Displayed from main.php <br/>";

include "test.php";

Output

This is Displayed from main.php
Hello World
This message is Displayed from Test.php

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Thursday, 3 April 2014

Creating Outlook Appointment Programmatically in C#

The first and foremost thing in creating a Appointment is to Add reference to the library, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll. Find how to download here.

Once done with referencing the Library to your forms application , Use the Library by adding the code,

Outlook= Using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook

Done with all these steps ?? Creating an meeting Appointment is easy !!!.

Add the Following piece of code,to create an appointment.

/// this represents the entire outlook application.

Outlook.Application Application = new Outlook.Application();

/// Create a new appointment.
Outlook.AppointmentItem newAppointment =(Outlook.AppointmentItem)
Application.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem);

/// Set the Start and End date of the appointment.
newAppointment.Start =DateTime.Now;
newAppointment.End = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);

/// Set the all-day event property.
newAppointment.AllDayEvent = false;

/// set the Location,Subject and Body of the Appointment.
newAppointment.Location ="TestLocation";
newAppointment.Subject="Meeting";
newAppointment.Body="Appointment body";

/// set the Busy status during the time period
newAppointment.BusyStatus = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBusyStatus.olFree;
newAppointment.Save();

The appointment will be saved in your calendar.

Note:- Do not Create an All day event unless necessary.

Want to send Invitee to others ??

Add the Code below

///create Recipients for the meeting request.

Outlook.Recipients sendTo = newAppointment.Recipients;

/// Add invitee's.

Outlook.Recipient sentInvite = null;

sentInvite = sentTo.Add("Dave@Example.com"); // Email of the Invitee.

// Recipient type Required.

sentInvite.Type = (int)Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType.olRequired;

sentInvite = sentTo.Add("Dave@Example.com"); // Email of the Invitee.

// Recipient type Optional

sentInvite.Type = (int)Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType.olOptional;

/// set the meeting Status.

newAppointment.MeetingStatus = Outlook.OlMeetingStatus.olMeeting;

///resolve the names against your Contacts.

sentTo.ResolveAll();

///Send the meeting request.

((Outlook._AppointmentItem)newAppointment).Send();

Meeting invite ll be sent to the recipients.

That's it, Done !!!!

for more details refer,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms268752.aspx