Search keywords in HTML content and highlight

Declare below variables in class

highlightClass = "highlightText";

highlightRe: any;

spaceRe = /\s+/;

spaceRe2 = /\s+$/;

before: any = "";

after: any = "";

Call a function of Controller "One" inside Controller "Two" - IONIC1

app.controller('One', ['$scope', '$rootScope'
    function($scope) {
        $rootScope.$on("CallParentMethod", function(){
           $scope.parentmethod();
        });

        $scope.parentmethod = function() {
            // task
        }
    }
]);
app.controller('two', ['$scope', '$rootScope'
    function($scope) {
        $scope.childmethod = function() {
            $rootScope.$emit("CallParentMethod", {});
        }
    }
]);




While $rootScope.$emit is called, you can send any data as second parameter.

Solution for IONIC2+  will be up soon.

Angular/Ionic not updating an image src when ng-src is empty

The Angular ngSrc directive serves to properly set an image src via Angular. As anything in Angular, it updates the image as soon as the contained Angular expression changes. However, when the ng-src attribute is empty, Angular will not empty the src attribute. To overcome this, use the trick below.

<img ng-src="{{ element.image || '//:0' }}" />

Background

The ngSrc directive explicitly returns when the attribute value is false. As a workaround, set a "blank" image src when the image is empty. As somebody on Stackoverflow writes, //:0 serves this purpose: It adopts the current protocol, omits the hostname and sets the port to zero, which is invalid and should be killed by the network layer.

As a result, Angular should now correctly empty the src attribute when ng-src empties.

IONIC - data binding on header title not working

By using the new ion-nav-title directive in Ionic beta 14, the binding seems to work correctly.

Rather than

<ion-view title="{{content.title}}">

Do this

<ion-view> <ion-nav-title>{{content.title}}</ion-nav-title>

Works a treat.

Self Signed SSL Certificates in PhoneGap

Code to allow self signed certs on PhoneGap 

Android:

• If you are doing development: android:debuggable="true" in the manifest, you should allow the browser to request data from servers with a self-signed or bad SSL cert 
• If you are releasing an application, you should remove the android:debuggable="true" (Android Market won't let you release with this on anyway) and you will NOT be able to send data to a server with a bad SSL cert 
• If you don't have this flag set, the default will be what the default is now, which is that you won't be able to send data to servers with a self-signed cert 

iOS: 

Just Add below code at the end of you AppDelegate.m file

@implementation NSURLRequest(DataController)
+ (BOOL)allowsAnyHTTPSCertificateForHost:(NSString *)host
{
    return YES; 
}
@end

Error: Database location or iosDatabaseLocation value is now mandatory in openDatabase call

if you are using Cordova sqlite plugin you may have this issue while open local DB file.

 _sqlLiteDB = $cordovaSQLite.openDB({ name: "testDB.db", iosDatabaseLocation:'default'}); 
// Works on android but not in iOS

                   

Error: Database location or iosDatabaseLocation value is now mandatory in openDatabase call

Use below to open DB:
window.sqlitePlugin.openDatabase({ name: "testDB.db", location: 2, createFromLocation: 1});

Solution:

if(isAndroid){
                    // Works on android but not in iOS

                    _sqlLiteDB = $cordovaSQLite.openDB({ name: "testDB.db", iosDatabaseLocation:'default'}); 

} else{
                    // Works on iOS 

                    _sqlLiteDB = window.sqlitePlugin.openDatabase({ name: "testDB.db", location: 2, createFromLocation: 1}); 

 }

error JSON.stringify()ing argument: RangeError: Invalid Date

There is minor bug in contact plugin in cordova ionic. contact list is loaded with error due to the birthdate field in contact card. Its bad practice to keep minor error in execution of code, It may effect to different OS versions.

error JSON.stringify()ing argument: RangeError: Invalid Date

Cordova Plugin: cordova-plugin-contacts
Verison: 2.1.0 "Contacts"

Open convertUtils.js file  

File Path: plugins/cordova-plugin-contacts/www/convertUtils.js

Find function "toCordovaFormat" and remove below try-catch code.

 try {
         contact.birthday = new Date(parseFloat(value));
} catch (exception){
          console.log("Cordova Contact toCordovaFormat error: exception creating date.");
}

add below code instead of try-catch

if (value !== null) {

        try {

                contact.birthday = new Date(parseFloat(value));

               

                //we might get 'Invalid Date' which does not throw an error

                //and is an instance of Date.

                if (isNaN(contact.birthday.getTime())) {

                       contact.birthday = null;

               }

               

        } catch (exception){

                console.log("Cordova Contact toCordovaFormat error: exception creating date.");

        }

}

Check below screenshot for better understand.

iOS contact card does not have value for "displayName". "displayName" is used for the android devices. So For iOS device, use "name.formatted" instead of "displayName".

Cheers.... Keep Coding... :)

Get County from User Lat Long

In Mobile application how the server knows about the posted device country and response then as per the location.

Get the current location of the device and use google map api to get user location. Get location from the ipaddress is a worth thing now. because all the internet user use proxy network.

PHP:

<?php

$cur_lat =$_REQUEST['lat'];
$cur_lon = $_REQUEST['lon'];

Stop Copy Text from Phonegap Applications

Hello,

Phonegap application is based on the HTML, CSS and JQuery. So if the user double tap on the app content then it will select the text and give option to copy and select text.

So for the application privacy if app admin does not want to copy application text then here is a way to stop selection of text.

Image store in Database.

Get the image URL that you want to store in the database.

$file= "http://sitename.com/image1.jpg";

$imgdata = base64_encode(file_get_content($file));

Above syntax give you a image in encoded formate. Store image data as a text in the database.

Use of image data in html app.
Get data from the database and append "data:image/jpeg:base64," before the data string like below:

data:image/jpeg:base64,imgdata

Use appended string as a source of the image like below:

<img src="data:image/jpeg:base64,skadadjsiweryerjtkHRUWNHDDhASDJKKSDHD=" />

It will display image to the application.. in mobile applications does not need to load image from the server. and its also use for the offline application.

Access-Control-Allow-Origin. issue on Phonegap JqueryMobile

When i ajax call to get or post some Data from Server, Some times I found error like below.

XMLHttpRequest cannot load file://localhost/Users/bhumika/Documents/phonegap-2.2.0/lib/ios/bin/****/www/js/data.json. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

to Solve above error write below syntax in your device ready function.

$.support.cors = true;

$.mobile.allowCrossDomainPages = true;

Or  

Write Below syntax in PHP file to the server.
 

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
Cheers....

Load JSON Data Using Ajax

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.1.1/jquery.mobile-1.1.1.min.css" />
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.1.1/jquery.mobile-1.1.1.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" >

$( '#page1' ).live( 'pageshow',function(event, ui){
  getData();
});

Display JSON data

Create a function to get data json data.

function getjson(){
var url = "https://sitename/getdata.php";
requestCrossDomain(url, function(results)
{


// result = {" resultdata ":[{" imgname ":"2147512358.jpg"," name ":"bhumika"},{"imgname
//                  ":"2411827535.jpg"," name ":"rahul"}]}

var myJSONObject1 = eval('(' + results + ')');
if(myJSONObject1== null)
{
return false;
}
$('#content_home').html(CreatedataView(myJSONObject1.resultdata)).fadeIn();
});
return false;
}

Pass all the Form elements to call JSON

If you call any server file on the live server to get json data, then may be you need to transfer some variables with value. for ex. if you need to insert data to your server then you must haveto post all data to server file.

First you need to follow my previous blog(get-data-using-cross-domain-request).

Create one form element and create all the variable into the form tag that you want to post on the server.
Create below function in the .js file.

function createQuery(fname)
{
     var formname= fname;
     var elements = document.getElementById(formname).elements;
     var pairs = new Array();
var next_el = "";
var checkdetail=""
    for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++)
   {

Get Data using Cross-Domain Request

There is a two methods to get data from the url. one is XML and second is the Json. the xml methods is very complicated and large. that's why I started to use json format for the cross-domain request.

Create cross_domain.js file

function requestCrossDomain( site, callback ) {
     if ( !site ) {
          return false;
     }
     var yql = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=' + encodeURIComponent('select * from html where url="' + site + '"') + '&format=xml&callback=?';
  $.getJSON( yql, cbFunc);

  function cbFunc(data) {
     if ( data.results[0] ) {