Brian A. Thomas .com » PHP http://www.brianathomas.com Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Ari and Sidd. Playing SWTOR... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:34:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fixing GStyles http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2007/10/12/fixing-gstyles/ http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2007/10/12/fixing-gstyles/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:41:17 +0000 Brian A. Thomas http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2007/10/12/fixing-gstyles/ I am working on fixing the theme I am using, GStyles (available here) and trying to make it work with WordPress 2.3.
So far I have fixed index.php and singles.php.
Here is an original code snippet from singles.php (sorry, the code runs over the edge, the theme is fixed width so it runs over... I might make this column flexible in due time, one thing at a time... or see if there is a "word wrap" feature in the program highlighter)...it should be the same in index.php:

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  1. <small>Category: <?php the_category(', ') ?> <strong>|</strong> <?php edit_post_link('Edit','','<strong>|</strong>'); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('Leave a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?><br />Tags: <?php if ( (function_exists('UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost')) ) { ?>
  2.  
  3. <?php UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost("commalist") ?>><?php }?></small>

This was fixed in my new version to look like this:

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  1. <small>Category: <?php the_category(', ') ?> <strong>|</strong> <?php edit_post_link('Edit','','<strong>|</strong>'); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('Leave a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?><br />
  2. <?php if(function_exists('the_tags')) {$my_tags = get_the_tags();if ( $my_tags != "" ){ the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); } else {echo "Tags: None";} }?>
  3. <?php if(function_exists('UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost')) { echo 'Tags: ';UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost("commalist");echo '<br />'; } ?></small>

That should allow it to fall back to UTW if somebody is still using an older version of WordPress. However, I don't have an old install to test it on, but near as I can tell it should be good.
I am now working on fixing the functions.php and finding a fix for the post2cat problems in it.
The problem with GStyles in WordPress 2.3 as it stands now also comes from the following in singles.php:

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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. if ( is_single() or is_page() ) {
  4.  
  5. if( function_exists('cattag_related_posts') ) {
  6.  
  7. $relatedposts = cattag_related_posts();
  8.  
  9. if ($relatedposts === false) {
  10.  
  11. // echo '<p>No related posts</p>';
  12.  
  13. } else {
  14.  
  15. echo '<div class="related-posts">
  17. <h2>Related posts:</h2><ul>' . $relatedposts . '</ul>
  19. </div> <!-- [related-posts] -->';
  20.  
  21. }
  22.  
  23. }
  24.  
  25. }
  26.  
  27. ?>

The fix is simple enough for now, just take that bit out. It kills the Related Posts function, but cattag_related_posts needs the post2cat. Now that is the part that may be past my programming experiences so far... then again, I did figure out how to get the rest working.

]]> http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2007/10/12/fixing-gstyles/feed/ 5 Trying to Write My Own Widget http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/12/24/trying-to-write-my-own-widget/ http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/12/24/trying-to-write-my-own-widget/#comments Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:16:22 +0000 Brian A. Thomas http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/12/24/trying-to-write-my-own-widget/ Calling all WordPress Widget experts, I am trying to write my own widget, but I am not having luck. I get it to show up in the plugins and activate it, but it doesn't show on the widget list.
I know about Chris Johnson's Tag Cloud Widget, but the cloud doesn't show for one thing, and the other is that I don't want it weighted, I want it shown in alphabetical order. It shows the title and nothing more using his... Okay, I got it to display by changing the display from 1 to 50, but that doesn't do a display all like 0 was supposed to do... Okay, I also got it to display in alpa order so I guess the code below is moot. :)
The code appears below the break, with a few comments after the code.

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  1. <?php
  2. /*
  3. Plugin Name: UTW Tag cloud widget
  4. Description: A simplified tag cloud widget - requires <a href="http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/">Ultimate Tag Warrior</a>...
  5. Author: Brian A. Thomas
  6. Version: 1.0
  7. Author URI: http://www.brianathomas.com
  8. */
  9.  
  10. /*
  11. For this plugin, I basically copied the gsearch.php plugin and modified it to my needs
  12. Eventually I'll expand this to actually use the title option...
  13. */
  14.  
  15. function widget_simple_utw_cloud_init() {
  16.  
  17.     // Check for the required plugin functions. This will prevent fatal
  18.     // errors occurring when you deactivate the dynamic-sidebar plugin.
  19.     if ( !function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') )
  20.         return;
  21.    
  22.     function simple_utw_cloud($args){
  23.    
  24.     // $args is an array of strings that help widgets to conform to
  25.     // the active theme: before_widget, before_title, after_widget,
  26.     // and after_title are the array keys. Default tags: li and h2.
  27.     extract($args);
  28.    
  29.     // Each widget can store its own options. We keep strings here.
  30.     $options = get_option('widget_simple_utw_cloud');
  31.     $title = $options['title'];
  32.     //$order = $options['order'];
  33.    
  34.     // These generate the output   
  35.     echo $before_widget . $before_title . $title . $after_title;
  36.     echo '<h3>Tag Cloud</h3>';
  37.     echo '<p style="text-align:right;"><label for="simple_utw_cloud-title">Title: <input style="width: 200px;" id="gsearch-title" name="simple_utw_cloud-title" type="text" value="'.$title.'" /></label></p>';
  38.     //if $order = '0' {
  39.     //  UTW_ShowWeightedTagSet("sizedtagcloud");
  40.     //}
  41.     //else {
  42.     UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("coloredsizedtagcloud","",0);
  43.     //}
  44.     echo $after_widget;
  45.     }
  46.    
  47.     function simple_utw_cloud_control(){
  48.     $options = get_option('widget_simple_utw_cloud');
  49.         if ( !is_array($options) )
  50.             $options = array('title'=>'','order'=>'');
  51.         if ( $_POST['simple_utw_cloud-submit'] ) {
  52.  
  53.         // Remember to sanitize and format use input appropriately.
  54.         $options['title'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['simple_utw_cloud-title']));
  55.         $options['order'] = '1';
  56.         update_option('widget_simple_utw_cloud', $options);
  57.         }
  58.        
  59.         // Be sure you format your options to be valid HTML attributes.
  60.         $title = htmlspecialchars($options['title'], ENT_QUOTES);
  61.        
  62.         // This displays the Options form
  63.         echo '<p style="text-align:right;"><label for="utw_simple_cloud-title">Title: <input style="width: 200px;" id="simple_utw_cloud-title" name="simple_utw_cloud-title" type="text" value="'.$title.'" /></label></p>';
  64.         echo '<p style="text-align:right;"><label for="utw_simple_cloud-order">Order: <input style="width: 200px;" id="utw_simple_cloud-order" name="utw_simple_cloud-order" type="text" value="'.$order.'" /></label></p>';
  65.         echo '<input type="hidden" id="simple_utw_cloud-submit" name="simple_utw_cloud-submit" value="1" />';
  66.  
  67.     }
  68.    
  69.     // This registers our widget so it appears with the other available
  70.     // widgets and can be dragged and dropped into any active sidebars.
  71.     register_sidebar_widget('Simple UTW Cloud', 'widget_simple_utw_cloud');
  72.    
  73.     // This registers our optional widget control form. Because of this
  74.     // our widget will have a button that reveals a 300x100 pixel form.
  75.     register_widget_control('Simple UTW Cloud', 'widget_simple_utw_cloud_control');
  76.    
  77. }
  78.  
  79. // Delay plugin execution to ensure Dynamic Sidebar has a chance to load first
  80. add_action('plugins_loaded', 'widget_simple_utw_cloud_init');
  81.    
  82. ?>

The $options that I have above was supposed to be so that the user sets it to 0 to get the tags to display in weighted form, the 1 would display the cloud in alphabetical order, with the words being bigger if it needed to be heavy or not.
The title may appear twice, I was trying to test something, but since the control never showed up, I wasn't able to test it. I wanted to see if it appeared the correct way which should be an h3 in my case.

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Here is the new improved code:

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  1. function generateHTMLCode(format,prodname,url,imgurl) {
  2.     if (format=='link') {
  3.         html = '<a href="'+url+'" title="Amazon.com - '+prodname+'">'+prodname+'</a>';
  4.     } else {
  5.         html = '<a href="'+url+'" title="Amazon.com - '+prodname+'"><img src="'+imgurl+'" alt="'+prodname+'" /></a><br />'
  6.         +'<a href="'+url+'" title="Amazon.com - '+prodname+'">'+prodname+'</a>';
  7.     }
  8.     htmlCode = document.getElementById("htmlcode")
  9.     htmlCode.value = html;
  10. }

Here is the old code so one can find it. It should be around line 190 or so (for version 1.3.2 anyhow)

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  1. function generateHTMLCode(format,prodname,url,imgurl) {
  2.         if (format=='link') {
  3.                 html = '<a href="'+url+'" title="View product details at Amazon">'+prodname+'</a>';
  4.         } else {
  5.                 html = '<a href="'+url+'" title="View product details at Amazon"><img src="'+imgurl+'" alt="'+prodname+'" /></a>';
  6.         }
  7.         htmlCode = document.getElementById("htmlcode")
  8.         htmlCode.value = html;
  9. }

I am still looking for a way to change the link to a more basic link, so Amazon's new Product Preview will work properly. However, for some reason I can't figure out where it is making the full link...

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Edited to clear why things were done.

]]> http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/06/03/more-editing-now-reading-code/feed/ 2 Fixing Now Reading http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/06/01/fixing-now-reading/ http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/06/01/fixing-now-reading/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:03:31 +0000 Brian A. Thomas http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/06/01/fixing-now-reading/ As I mentioned before I use the Now Reading plugin for WordPress here. However, it has a small anoyance. It linked to the "You may also be interested in these items..." page, rather than the item's detail page. If the user didn't click "add to cart" and looked at the "also interested in these items" stuff, it would cut your earnings from 15% to only 5%. Then again an article titled Amazon Associates Beware states:

The "ref=nosim" links apparently work correctly, although they are undocumented on the Associates site. However, it's unclear as to whether you make more money from using them. You're more likely to make that 15%, but you might make more in the aggregate from the recommended items you get using the first method. That is, the number of people looking to buy that item right away (say, 2 people counted at 15% apiece for a $15 item for a total of $4.50) might be offset by the number of people looking to browse and then buy (10 people counted at 5% apiece for a $15 item for a total of $7.50). The reports for my site at Amazon show that people who click through seem to browse and then buy rather than buy directly...I just need to get them into the store and Amazon will take care of the rest.

So perhaps it is best to leave it as is, especially on a site like this where book sales are not a real focus.
Anyhow, I applied the "ref=nosim" bit to the Now Reading plugin. I applied it to template-functions.php file. I added it to the function book_link funtion after it puts in the books ASIN number. Here is the fixed section of code:

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  1. function book_link() {
  2.     global $book;
  3.     $options = get_option('nowReadingOptions');
  4.     echo apply_filters('book_link', "http://www.amazon{$options['domain']}/exec/obidos/ASIN/{$book->asin}/ref=nosim/{$options['associate']}?tag={$options['associate']}");
  5. }

This may or may not be helpful, but I prefer to go to the books detail page myself... at least for now. :)
EDIT: Of course it would perhaps be best to make it an option in the options panel, but that is too much work for me at the moment. Also, I might try to fix the links some of the other stuff makes to be cleaner like that.

]]> http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/06/01/fixing-now-reading/feed/ 0 I Modified GeSHi’s C# File http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/05/07/geshis-c-file-modified/ http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/05/07/geshis-c-file-modified/#comments Sun, 07 May 2006 22:18:54 +0000 Brian A. Thomas http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2006/05/07/geshis-c-file-modified/ As noted before, to post code in WordPress, I use the ig:Syntax Hiliter plugin. It uses the GeSHi engine.
I recently decided to modify the way it colors C# code. In particular I wanted to separate XML style comments from regular comments.
To that end I modified the PHP code in GeSHi's C# file.

I changed following entry in the $language_data = array ( from:

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  1. 'COMMENT_SINGLE' => array(1 => '//', 2 => '#'),

to

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  1. 'COMMENT_SINGLE' => array(1 => '///', 2 => '//', 3 => '#'),

The /// has to come before the // so it can properly recognize the /// otherwise it sees it as another //.
Then I modified the following entry in 'STYLES' => array( to be like this:

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  1. 'COMMENTS' => array(
  2.    1 => 'color: #808080',
  3.    2 => 'color: #008080; font-style: italic;',
  4.    3 => 'color: #008080;',
  5.    'MULTI' => 'color: #008080; font-style: italic;'
  6.    ),

2 => is what it orginaly had as 1 =>, and I made 1 => to reflect the change I wanted there, which gives the XML style comments a gray color, while leaving regular comments green.

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]]> http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/10/20/categories-moved-to-top-of-posts/feed/ 0 PHP editing of the site http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/05/02/php-editing-of-the-site/ http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/05/02/php-editing-of-the-site/#comments Mon, 02 May 2005 06:13:55 +0000 Brian A. Thomas http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/05/02/php-editing-of-the-site/ Seems the site was not validating as valid XHTML. I had to edit some of the PHP code to fix it. Seems when I added the calendar back in (it is off by default in WordPress 1.5) I forgot to keep it in the proper flow of things. I also had to edit the Amazon Wishlist program to become valid XHTML. Anyhow, things validate again... if anyone cared.

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]]> http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/01/19/scripturizer-revised-again/feed/ 1 Editing Scripturizer http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/01/17/editing-scripturizer/ http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/01/17/editing-scripturizer/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:51:41 +0000 Brian A. Thomas http://www.brianathomas.com/archives/2005/01/17/editing-scripturizer/ I had to edit the PHP code in Scripturizer to make it validate as XHTML.
The problem is that some of the sites use an ampersand (&) as part of their URL. XHTML doesn't allow that in the code, and the & needs changed to &amp;. A subtle difference to be sure, and what comes up on the address bar is still the same. However, it is a simple fix. So far all I fixed are ones going through Biblegateway, which is the one I would normally use.
On version 1.5, my copy has line 157 reading as follows:
$link = "http://biblegateway.com/bible?version=$translation&passage=";
I changed that to:
$link = "http://biblegateway.com/bible?version=$translation&
and viola, it now validates as XHTML.

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