Server-Side PDF Conversion with LibreOffice and IIS

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| By Sahil Kumar

When building web applications on Windows servers using IIS, you may occasionally need to utilize locally installed desktop applications — like LibreOffice — for server-side tasks. A common example is converting Microsoft Word documents into PDF format. In this post,

Java | Configure Tomcat as a service on linux

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Configure Tomcat service in Linux: These instructions are related to installing and running Tomcat 7 as a service, which means that it will be launched at system boot and will be closed properly on system shutdown. Running tomcat as a

How to use SimpleSAMLPhp as a Service Provider for authenticating users?

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How to use SimpleSAMLPhp as a Service Provider for authenticating users? Some Basic steps to start using simplesamlphp. 1. Download stable version of SimpleSAMLphp from this link: Click here 2. Go to the directory or your workspace where you want

Moodle | New lang strings not accessible

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In Moodle we had declared some new strings in lang file of a plugin like this: $string[‘LIBRARY_NAME’] = ‘E-Lab’; $string[‘BOOK_READ_SUCCESS’]=’Congratulations on reading the book’; We wanted to use it in view.php file of the plugin like this: $result=Get_String(‘BOOK_READ_SUCCESS’, ‘plugin name’);

PHP | How to merge multiple PDFs into single file using pdftk

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Using PDFtk we can merge multiple files into a single file using a command like this: Example : pdftk file1 file2 output file3. Sample code to accomplish the same using PHP is given below: $arrayOfPDFFiles; $outputPDFName = “mergeResult.pdf”; $dir =”Files/GeneratedPDFs/”;

Moodle/Totara | Upgrade Moodle database after making changes to a plugin

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In one of our Moodle projects, we modified a plugin’s code to add extra functionality to plugin. The modification in plugin’s code was not reflected and Moodle showed the older version of plugin. To solve this problem, we upgraded the