PHP-GTK: making an “About” dialog

December 8th, 2009 § 0

Below is an example of how you can code an About dialog in PHP-GTK.
The mail_hook and url_hook are callback functions to open your default email client and webbrowser.
These functions have been tested under Windows XP. I don’t know if they work on Mac or Linux.

PHP GTK: liststore error (undefined class constant)

December 8th, 2009 § 1

Been experimenting with php-gtk over the last few days. When I was trying to use a liststore, php threw a fatal error. “Undefined class constant ‘TYPE_STRING’”. » Read the rest of this entry «

Cleaning up after an emailing

November 5th, 2009 § 0

As a web master, I often send out mass mailings. After the mailing is done, the bounced emails are returned to my Outlook. I go through them manually. The real bouncers are put in a “Bounced” folder and,  Out of office messages in the “Trash”. The rest of the emails are addresses I need to update in my database or people that wish to unsubscribe. Since sorting through 2000 bouncers can take up a lot of time, I did some research on how to automate this.

PHP offers a set of functions to connect to a mail server (IMAP/POP3).  The plan was to let my web server connect to the mail server and sort out the bouncers for me. Below is a little script to give you some ideas of what I came up with.

Some great tools

October 27th, 2009 § 0

Over the past few months I’ve been using a couple of new tools. Since they are free and might be helpfull to website designers and managers I decided to share my find:

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Canvas: flip image

October 24th, 2009 § 0

Below is a sollution for flipping an image on the <canvas> tag without having to read it pixel by pixel:

    Windows 7: no mailclient

    October 23rd, 2009 § 0

    I just noticed that Windows 7 does not ship with Windows Mail or Outlook Express.  Users of Windows 7 can download a mail client on the Windows live site. This seems to be the only mailclient for users on the 64bit version.  Mozilla Thunderbird 3 64 bit is still in beta at the moment.

    Skype: bulk import

    October 22nd, 2009 § 0

    Skype
    Out of the box, Skype doesn’t have a bulk import feature. I only found one extra and it costs 15$.
    Here’s a tip how to do it for free.

    1. Open Skype and go to ‘Contacts’
    2. Go to Advanced
    3. Backup contacts to file
    4. Open the backup with Notepad or another text editor
    5. The file is full of vcards, just copy a vcard, and past it at the bottom. All you have to do is alter the info. (ref is reference to importtime so you don’t have to alter this tag)
    6. if you need to import many contacts, write a script to add extra vcards.
    7. When your file is ready, go back to Skype/Advanced and import restore the backup.

    An autoit script to do this might look something like the code below (untested)
    Phone.xls has a column with nummers and a column with names

    #include
    $oExcel = _ExcelBookOpen("phone.xls")
    _ExcelSheetActivate($oExcel,"sheetName")
    For $i = 1 To 3 ;Loop
    $phone = _ExcelReadCell($oExcel, 1, $i);cell with phone
    $name = _ExcelReadCell($oExcel, 1, $i);cell with name
    $file = FileOpen("backupfile.vcf", 1)

    ; Check if file opened for writing OK
    If $file = -1 Then
    MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")
    Exit
    EndIf

    FileWriteLine($file, "BEGIN:VCARD")
    FileWriteLine($file, "VERSION:3.0")
    FileWriteLine($file, "N:"+$phone)
    FileWriteLine($file, "X-SKYPE-PSTNNUMBER:"+ $phone)
    FileWriteLine($file, "X-SKYPE-DISPLAYNAME:"+ $name + " " + $phone)
    FileWriteLine($file, "REV:01091022T130411Z")
    FileWriteLine($file, "END:VCARD")

    FileClose($file)
    Next
    _ExcelBookClose($oExcel)

    __autoload function

    October 21st, 2009 § 0

    Some info,snippets on PHP5 autoload function:

    function __autoload($className) {
    include_once __autoloadFilename($className);
    }
    function __autoloadFilename($className) {
    return str_replace('_','/',$className).".php";
    }
    $class = new myclass();

    When a Class is not found, php will pass the classname to the __autoload function.
    You can name your class like Folder1_Folder1a_Myclass and this function will look for it in Folder1/Folder1a/Myclass.php

    You can put multiple classes in one folder and still make this work by creating a link to the correct file.
    On Unix, Linux machines use the command “ln -s targetfile.php nonexistingclassfile.php”

    Prototype: submit multiple select with ajax call

    August 11th, 2009 § 0

    Beware when posting data from a multiple select through ajax. You can’t send an array with a Prototype ajax call.

    expl.

    function postmydata(){
    new Ajax.Request(’data.php’,
    {
    method:’post’,
    parameters: {selectdata: $F(’myselect’)},
    onSuccess: function(transport){
    var response = transport.responseText || alert(”couldn’t add data”);
    $(’mydiv’).update(response);
    },
    onFailure: function(){ $(’mydiv’).update(’error’); }
    });
    }

    This won’t work. Your php page will not get an array.

    Solution

    replace the parameter part with:
    parameters: {selectdata: $F(’myselect’).join(”,”)}, // this will send a comma seperated string
    In your php code use:
    $myselect = = explode(’,',$_POST['selectdata']);

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    To much urls

    April 27th, 2009 § 0

    Sometimes you find great sites that you wish you’d bookmarked but didn’t.

    Think I first noticed Frank Buchwald on Slashdot. Took me more than a year to find his url back (forgot his name ) http://www.frankbuchwald.de

    If you like his work, also visit http://klockwerks.com/ , Art Donovan, Eric Freitas

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