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Pimp my Log is a web app written in PHP. It displays server logs friendly.

By default, Pimp My Log supports :

  • Apache web server
  • NGINX web server
  • IIS web server
  • PHP log files

Key features:

  • Display any text and multi-line logs in your web browser
  • ChromeSafariFirefoxIE9+Opera are supported
  • Be notified on your desktop as soon as a new log line is available
  • Be notified when log file is rotated
  • Apply a search filter (plain text or regular expression) on the log file
  • Refresh logs : Pull to refresh, push key stroke R, click on the refresh button or set an auto-refresh timer
  • Show/hide columns during runtime to improve readability
  • Mark lines during runtime to improve readability
  • Sort lines and view new logs lines directly in list
  • Export logs in various formats ( JSON, XML, CSV, RSS, ATOM, …) and expose them as webservices

Pimp my Log

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Easily add beautiful checkboxes and radio buttons in pure CSS. Highly customizable via SCSS.

portalZINE NMN | Development meets Creativity | preview


  •  Basic
    • Shapes – SquareCurveRound
    • Variants – DefaultFillThick
    • Colors – PrimarySuccessInfoWarningDanger
    • Color types – SolidOutline
    • Animations – SmoothTadaJellyPulseRotate
  • Switch – iOS style – OutlineFillSlim
  • Responsive
  • No JavaScript
  • Custom Font Icons
  • SVG Icons
  • Image support
  • Toggle between icons / SVG’s / images
  • Lock
  • State – FocusHoverIndeterminate
  • Supports frameworks – BootstrapFoundationSematic UIBulma, …
  • SCSS customization
  • Supports all modern browsers, including mobile devices
  • Print friendly

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WordPress WooCommerce Appointments

WooCommerce Appointments is a commercial  booking plugin that allows you to setup appointments with WooCommerce. It has full integration into Google calendar to track appointments of your staff.

Staff availability can be set globally or via each staff members profile. While this is nice, I was looking for an option to actually handle availability via another Google Calendar as well. That was a must have feature for a current project.

What do you do, if that feature is not available yet ? You poke the code!

The magic entry point for the staff availability is the user meta “_wc_appointment_availability“, which is made available through includes/class-wc-product-appointment-staff.php.

A couple of weeks ago I asked support for a simple filter hook to alter the availability on demand from the outside.

The development team added the feature in one of the latest releases, making wc_appointments_staff_availability the entry point for my custom availability changes.

The filter hook

Getting the data

You can either pull Google Calendar Events directly through the Google Calendar API or use the available iCal export option. In this quick example I will use the private calendar iCal export file.

The availability calendar

Lets setup a quick clean calendar, called “Availability”. So simple and catchy :)

  1. Create a new calendar
  2. Create some test events. WooCommerce Appointments supports multiple availability rules, but I am focusing on the time:range option and recurring events for this example. I might be extending on this a bit more in the future ! So for this example:  Friday, timeframe 10:00 – 16:00 and repeating four times.
  3. Go into settings and get the link to the privat ical export file

Parse iCal data

For this example I am using the PHP ICS Parser, but any other parser will do.  Install it via composer: composer require johngrogg/ics-parser.

Lets create a quick little plugin to get us going and save it to /wp-content/plugins/CustomAvailability/smile.php

 

Set the availability

Its time to get the data into the system. I am only pulling and altering the availability for one single user in this example, the user with the USERID “3”. This should provide you with a good starting point.

The example pulls and parses the ics file on every load, use a transient or REDIS to store data and only refresh in certain intervals.

Hope this gets you started! I build a simple interface around it, with a lot of more rule options. This makes the setup for each staff member a brise. Now each of them can setup a calendar easily and provide  me with the ics link  :) WooCommerce Appointments rocks …

Enjoy coding ….

 

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There are many variations of these out there, SSilence/php-imap-client is a lib with a nice set of methods, clean integration and pretty good documentation.
Adding it to my goto essentials !

GitHub

Enjoy coding …

Default IMAP Search Criteria

 

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10. February 2018

Screen Scraping with Goutte

We all have been in situations were we need content or information from a connected website, but have no access to a REST Api or any other backend feed.

In these cases screen scraping is the only option to get needed information to finalize an integration. You can do that directly in CURL, but that can be tedious. Far easier to use a nicely packaged solution that combines a component that simulates web browser behavior and a component that eases DOM navigation for HTML and XML documents. Meet Goutte!

STEP 0

Install via composer.

 

STEP 1

Login into a website and navigate to the page that has your needed information

 

STEP 2

Get the data you need.

Goutte @ Github
BrowserKit Documentation
DOM Crawler Documentation

Enjoy coding …

 

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4. February 2018

jQuery QueryBuilder

QueryBuilder is an UI component to create queries and filters.

  • It can be used on advanced search engine pages, administration backends, etc.
  • It is highly customizable and is pluggable to many jQuery widgets like autocompleters, sliders and datepickers.
  • It outputs a structured JSON of rules which can be easily parsed to create SQL/NoSQL/whatever queries.
  • And it also comes with a set of great plugins and has a full events system for even more features.

Really neatly programmed solution, with many possible ways to hook into it with your own plugins.

GitHub

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An icon font to use with the Google Maps API and Google Places API, using SVG markers and icon labels.

Map Icons makes Google Maps Markers dynamic with control over shape, color, size, and icon easily changed using options in the marker object as well as simple SVG Notation and CSS.

GitHub / Preview

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I have been working on a project , that relies on text-to-speech cloud services for a lot of things.

Audiomanager abstracts access to  popular text-to-speech cloud services like GoogleIvonaAmazon Polly… Really a timesaver, when evaluating different  services.

Polly Example

GitHub

Enjoy coding ….

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PHP dotenv loads environment variables from .env to getenv()$_ENV and $_SERVER automagically.

You should never store sensitive credentials in your code. Anything that is likely to change between deployment environments – such as database credentials or credentials for 3rd party services – should be extracted from the code into environment variables.

Add your application configuration to a .env file in the root of your project. Make sure the .env file is added to your .gitignore so it is not being checked-in.

DEFINE

LOAD

ACCESS

GitHub

Enjoy coding and be secure …

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Simple little snippet, that can easily be used in conjunction with wp_update_user()

Enjoy coding …

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