28. February 2015

Reading up on IMAP specifications

Currently reading up on the IMAP protocol, as one of my customers is using a server without IMAP support compiled :)

I will be using a simple INBOX check for failed email notifications (sockets are your best friend). That will allow me to set a flag for every new user account that is still unconfirmed and used a broken email address for their registration. These accounts can than be verified manually :)

Happy socket = happy customer.

Btw, here is a nice piece of code to quickly parse the email header in PHP

$parsed  = array();
$blocks  = preg_split('/\n\n/', $response['data']);
$lines   = array();
$matches = array();
foreach ($blocks as $i => $block) {
    $parsed[$i] = array();
    $lines = preg_split('/\n(([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?)/',
                        $block, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
    foreach ($lines as $line) {
        if(preg_match('/^\n?([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?$/',
                      $line, $matches)) {
            $parsed[$i][$matches[1]] = preg_replace('/\n +/', ' ',
                                                    trim($matches[2]));
        }
    }
}

$parsed = array();

$blocks = preg_split('/\n\n/', $response['data']);

$lines = array();

$matches = array();

foreach ($blocks as $i => $block) {

$parsed[$i] = array();

$lines = preg_split('/\n(([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?)/',

$block, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);

foreach ($lines as $line) {

if(preg_match('/^\n?([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?$/',

$line, $matches)) {

$parsed[$i][$matches[1]] = preg_replace('/\n +/', ' ',

trim($matches[2]));

}

15. January 2015

Holland America Line Reisprofiel Test goes online

“Holland America Line Reisprofile Test” provides an interface for customers to find out which cruise type they are.
By sliding the images you are choosing your preferences and define your cruise type, which allows you to get an individual set of cruises sent to you.

12. November 2014

Time to move to SVG using SVGmagic as a fallback

SVGMagic is a jQuery plugin that provides a nice server side fallback to convert SVG images to PNGs for older browsers (IE8, Android 2.*).

Also works for background images.

SVGMagic

Serverside conversion of SVG to PNG

PHP: phpsvg
Python: CairoSVG

7. November 2014

Extending the Visual Composer Row element with a new property

Visual Composer for WordPress provides many ways to extend its functionality. There are already many add-ons available for this dynamic page builder, but its easy to do the extending yourself, by following the hints in the documentation ;)

In this small tutorial we are adding a “type” field to allow a special css class to be added to each of our row containers.

New Visual Composer element properties can be easily added by using the vc_add_param function. See documentation for more information. In our case we are adding a property to the vc_row element.
Continue reading Extending the Visual Composer Row element with a new property

31. October 2014

Using Web RTC in your web application

web_rtc

IN A PERFECT WORLD

In a perfect world all current browsers would allow the usage of WebRTC natively, but that is as always not the case ;)

WHAT IS WEBRTC ?

“WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an API definition drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that supports browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without the need of either internal or external plugins.” – Wikipedia

Continue reading Using Web RTC in your web application

1. September 2014

Git Auto Deployment with PHP

Doing Git / Bitbucket Deployment for most of my project these days. This is another compact solution, that should allow almost anyone to start using Git to distribute updates automatically.

Always nice to be able to go a step back fast ;)

Git Auto Deployment

His website is offline, but you can still reach it through the Web Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20131209120053/http://wpcopilot.net/git-auto-deployment/

26. August 2014

PHP BroadwayAPI – playlists and EPG for OpenELEC / XBMC / Kodi

BroadwayAPI is a PHP class to extract / export channel playlists and EPG from the PCTV Broadway. These can be reused with OpenELEC, XBMC, Kodi and the IPTV Simple PVR Client Addon.

I am using the setup on a local server to handle playlists and epg updates for multiple XBMC setups.

https://bitbucket.org/portalzine/cubicfusion-broadwayapi

This is a project in progress. More details soon…

Enjoy
Alex

23. May 2014

Kint – PHP debugger

kint

Debugging can be such a pain sometimes. Kint has saved my bacon more than once ;)

Kint

20. April 2014

WordPress WPML: Custom SELECT to get any translated content by language code

WPML for WordPress is a powerful plugin to build a multi-language setup. But it still comes short in some areas, especially when it comes to a custom integration into plugins or when using custom post-types.

Normally this function should return the id of the linked translated content, but has not worked for me in some cases (especially when AJAX is involved).

icl_object_id( $id, 'custom_post_type', false, $translation_lang );

1	icl_object_id( $id, 'custom_post_type', false, $translation_lang );

A simple SELECT helps to get that id yourself :)

// original_id - main post id
// $translation_lang - translated language code ... de, nl ...

global $wpdb;

$translation = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from wp_icl_translations where trid = (SELECT trid from wp_icl_translations where element_id = '".$original_id."' and element_type='post_page') and language_code='".$translation_lang."'");

$post = get_post($translation[0]->element_id, ARRAY_A);

// original_id - main post id

// $translation_lang - translated language code ... de, nl ...

global $wpdb;

$translation = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from wp_icl_translations where trid = (SELECT trid from wp_icl_translations where element_id = '".$original_id."' and element_type='post_page') and language_code='".$translation_lang."'");

$post = get_post($translation[0]->element_id, ARRAY_A);

16. April 2014

List of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes in all languages

The GitHub repository from Saša Stamenković provides a nice list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.

Available formats are:

Text
JSON
YAML
XML
HTML
- Select
- Flags
CSV
SQL
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- SQL Server
PHP

Github