Integrates Gemius and WordPress by adding Gemius tracking code.

Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gemius-plugin/

Development: https://github.com/eabay/wordpress-gemius-plugin

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Bitbucket is cool with unlimited private repos but the downtime they had yesterday proved that you shouldn’t rely on it if you don’t have copies of your repositories on your own disk. I wrote a small console application using symfony console component to sync all repositories of a user by utilizing bitbucket API.

Basically, you give your bitbucket credentials and it clones all your git repositories.

Installation and Usage

git clone git@bitbucket.org:eabay/bitbucket-repo-sync.git
cd bitbucket-repo-sync
php composer.phar install
php src/console.php bitbucket:sync username password

You can choose the path of repositories:

php src/console.php bitbucket:sync username password -d /some/where

To get help about the command:

php src/console.php help bitbucket:sync

The ironic part is that project is hosted at bitbucket. I think I should define another remote like github.

Notice that repositories are cloned over https schema including your username and password. I mean repositories will have origins with uris like https://username:password@bitbucket.org/…. If this is a security problem for you, don’t use the application!

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You can clone a working copy from http://github.com/eabay/directcakephp.

It is not that good but it works!

http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86501

I posted a solution how to use it in a CakePHP application and here is a little helper to make it more useful:

<?php
//app/views/helpers/combine.php
class CombineHelper extends AppHelper
{
	public $helpers = array('Html', 'Javascript');
	private $_pattern = '../combine.php?type=:type&files=:files';
	public function js($files)
	{
		echo $this->Javascript->link($this->_format($files));
	}
	public function css($files)
	{
		echo $this->Html->css($this->_format($files, 'css'));
	}
	private function _format($files = array(), $type = 'javascript')
	{
		return String::insert($this->_pattern, array('type' => $type, 'files' => implode(',', $files)));
	}
}

Add it to controller’s helpers property:

<?php
class MyController extends AppController
{
	public $helpers = array('Combine');

And call it by passing an array of file names in your view:

$combine->js(array(
    'javascript1.js',
    'javascript2.js',
    'javascript3.js'
));
$combine->css(array(
    'stylesheet1.css',
    'stylesheet2.css',
    'stylesheet3.css'
));

Don’t forget to add file extensions!

If you want to add only one file, you don’t have to use combine helper. Directives added to .htaccess file let combine script to compress the file(See related post). Just use $javascript->link(‘filename’).

When I started to type “lcfirst”, Zend Studio didn’t suggest me a function with this name and it was interesting. PHP documentation says that it is available but it throws an exception. What the hack goes wrong?

Here is the answer: It was too late and too hard to keep my eyes open

lcfirst function is available in newly released version of PHP, 5.3. I am still using 5.2.9. Here is a code snippet:

if (!function_exists('lcfirst')) {
    function lcfirst($string) {
        return substr_replace($string, strtolower(substr($string, 0, 1)), 0, 1);
    }
}

It is unbelivable that I don’t ever need the function lcfirst before.

I want to show you how easy to add an image rotator to your SilverStripe site by using JW Image Rotator. You can see it in action at sumpa.com.tr.

First download the greatest flash image rotator, JW Image Rotator. Then copy/move it to your SilverStripe project folder. I prefer “images” folder.

In order to add or remove new images (or swf files) to your rotator easily, we are going to use a folder in our “Uploads” directory and list all the files in this folder. Let’s assume that our directory name is “flash”. To do that, go to your admin panel in SilverStripe, switch to “Files & Images” tab in your menu and create a new directory called “flash”.

In your Page class, define a new method called ImageRotator().

// myproject/code/Page.php
class Page extends SiteTree {
  static $db = array();
  static $has_one = array();
  function ImageRotator() {
    return DataObject::get('File', 'ClassName <> "Folder" AND ParentID = (SELECT ID FROM File WHERE ClassName = "Folder" AND Name = "flash" LIMIT 0,1)');
  }
}

Create a new file “ImageRotator.ss” in “myproject/templates/”

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
  <trackList>
  <% if ImageRotator %>
    <% control ImageRotator %>
    <track>
      <title>$Title.XML</title>
      <location>$BaseHref$Filename.XML</location>
    </track>
    <% end_if %>
  <% end_control %>
  </trackList>
</playlist>

Create a new file “Flash.ss” in “myproject/templates/Includes”

<!--
Don't change the "file" variable. This is the URI of our XML which contains images
You can change other settings or add/remove.
-->
<script type="text/javascript">
var introFlashvars = {
  width: "950",
  height: "300",
  file: "$URLSegment/ImageRotatorXML",
  shownavigation: false,
  screencolor: "0xFFFFFF",
  rotatetime: 15
};
var params = {
  wmode: "transparent"
}
</script>
<!--
Following div with id "Intro" is used as a container for our image rotator.
Browsers which are not supporting Javascript, "dummyimage.jpg" image linked to the home page is displayed
Don't forget to add swfobject.js into your head tag!
You can download it from http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
-->
<div id="Intro"><a href="/"><img src="dummyimage.jpg" /></a></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
  swfobject.embedSWF("$ThemeDir/images/imagerotator.swf", "Intro", introFlashvars.width, introFlashvars.height, "8", false, introFlashvars, params);
</script>

We complete the steps to create our rotator. Now, you can call it from any page that you want with the following include directive:

<% include Flash %>

Upload your images and swf files into your “flash” directory and open the page by adding “?flush=1″ to URI. It will refresh the cache.

I know, it should be a widget so that it can easily be added to the pages without hardcoding. I am not planning to do that kind of work but if you find it useful, convert it to a widget and share with community. You are free to do that! No license, no restrictions…

Contributions are welcome…

Combine is a small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting designed to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files.

It is good but how can you integrate it with your CakePHP project? And solution comes with the question .

Download a copy of combine.php and drop it into your “app/webroot” directory (or whatever your application folder name is XXX/webroot/).

Open the file in your text editor and change lines:

$cachedir = dirname(__FILE__) . '/cache';
$cssdir   = dirname(__FILE__) . '/css';
$jsdir    = dirname(__FILE__) . '/javascript';

with

$cachedir = dirname(__FILE__) . '/../tmp/cache';
$cssdir   = dirname(__FILE__) . '/css';
$jsdir    = dirname(__FILE__) . '/js';

Open your “app/webroot/.htaccess” file and add those two lines

RewriteRule ^css/(.*\.css) combine.php?type=css&files=$1
RewriteRule ^js/(.*\.js) combine.php?type=javascript&files=$1

That’s all! Check download times of your css and javascript files with a tool like Firebug. A fatty 527KB ext-all.js javascript framework file compressed to 140KB! Amazing ha?

Save it with the name request_handler_ext.php into your application components directory under controllers.

You can call the following methods within your controller (e.g. $this->RequestHandlerExt->methodName()):

getClientCountryCode() : ISO 3166 Two-letter Country Code
getClientRegionCode() : Region Code
getClientCity() : City
getClientPostalCode() : Postal Code
getClientLatitude() : Latitude
getClientLongitude() : Longitude
getClientMetropolitanCode() : Metropolitan Code
getClientMetropolitanCode() : Area Code
getClientIsp() : ISP
getClientOrganization() : Organization

<?php
/**
 * Extends RequestHandler component by adding some useful geolocation information.
 *
 * Requires MaxMind WebService license key to work properly
 *
 * @copyright     2009 Erhan Abay
 * @package       app
 * @subpackage    app.controllers.components
 * @version       $Revision$
 * @lastmodified  $Date$
 */
App::import('Component', 'RequestHandler');
class RequestHandlerExtComponent extends RequestHandlerComponent
{
	/**
	 * Required to query MaxMind WebService
	 *
	 * Provide your own key by replacing XXXXX.
	 */
	const MM_LICENSE_KEY = 'XXXXXX';
	public function startup(&amp;amp;amp;amp;$controller)
	{
		parent::startup(&amp;amp;amp;amp;$controller);
		$this->controller =&amp;amp;amp;amp; $controller;
	}
	/**
	 * Searches key value in array returned by function getGeoLocation()
	 *
	 * @param string $name Name of the method
	 * @param unknown_type $arguments Not used, required not to give error
	 * @return string if key found
	 *         null else
	 */
	public function __call($name, $raw = false)
	{
		$var = Inflector::underscore(preg_replace('/getClient/i', '', $name));
		$geo_location = (array)$this->getGeoLocation($raw);
		return array_key_exists($var, $geo_location) ? $geo_location[$var] : null;
	}
	/**
	 * Queries to the MaxMind WebService and returns an array of information
	 *
	 * @param bool $raw
	 * @return null if IP address is local
	 *         bool false if webservice returns error code
	 *         string if $raw is set true
	 *         array else
	 */
  public function getGeoLocation($raw = false)
  {
  	if ($this->isLocalIP()) {
  		return null;
  	}
  	if ($this->controller->Session->check('User.GeoLocation')) {
  		return $raw ? $this->controller->Session->read('User.GeoLocation.raw') : $this->controller->Session->read('User.GeoLocation');
  	}
    App::import('HttpSocket');
    $http = new HttpSocket();
    /*
     * Returns in order:
     *
     * 0  ISO 3166 Two-letter Country Code,
     * 1  Region Code,
     * 2  City,
     * 3  Postal Code,
     * 4  Latitude,
     * 5  Longitude,
     * 6  Metropolitan Code,
     * 7  Area Code,
     * 8  ISP,
     * 9  Organization,
     * 10 Error code
     */
    $result = $http->get('http://geoip1.maxmind.com/f', array(
      'l' => self::MM_LICENSE_KEY,
      'i' => $this->getClientIP()
    ));
    $values = explode(',', $result);
    if (isset($values[10])) {
      return false;
    }
    if ($raw) {
    	return $result;
    }
    $keys = array('country_code', 'region_code', 'city', 'postal_code', 'latitude', 'longitude', 'metropolitan_code', 'area_code', 'isp', 'organization');
    $data = array_combine($keys, $values);
    $data['coords'] = $values[4].','.$values[5];
    $data['raw'] = $result;
    $this->controller->Session->write('User.GeoLocation', $data);
    return $data;
  }
  /**
   * Detects whether IP address is local or not
   *
   * @param string $ip IP address to check
   * @return bool
   */
  public function isLocalIP($ip = null) {
  	$ip = is_null($ip) ? $this->getClientIP() : $ip;
  	$regex = '/(192\.168\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})';
	$regex .= '|(10\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})';
	$regex .= '|(172\.0?([1][6-9])¦([2][0-9])¦([3][0-1])\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})';
	$regex .= '|(127\.0\.0\.1)/';
  	return (bool)preg_match($regex, $ip);
  }
}
?>

You are using CakePHP‘s email component and you should set the same information in each time before you send your email like server address, username, password etc.

Just create a new file mailer.php with the following content and drop it into your CakePHP application components folder (I like convention over configuration! ).

<?php
App::import('Component', 'Email');
class MailerComponent extends EmailComponent
{
  var $from = 'ME <me@localhost>';
  var $replyTo = 'noreply@localhost';
  var $sendAs = 'both';
  var $delivery = 'smtp';
  var $xMailer = 'Postman';
  var $smtpOptions = array(
    'port'=> 25,
    'host' => 'serveradress',
    'timeout' => 30,
    'username' => 'username',
    'password' => 'password'
  );
}
?>

And right now you have a new component with the name “Mailer” and its server configuration is predefined. You can reuse it without being affected by any kind of mail server change.

You can define a new function inside your controller (_sendEmail() in our case) and make the email sending process more painless.

class AnyController extends AppController
{
  function contact()
  {
    if ($this->_sendEmail('Name', 'blabla@fakeemail', 'Grate site!')) {
      $this->Session->setFlash(__("Thank you", true));
    } else {
      $this->Session->setFlash('Damn it!');
    }
  }
  function _sendEmail($name, $email, $message)
  {
    $this->Mailer->to = 'info@localhost';
    $this->Mailer->subject = __("Site Contact", true);
    $this->Mailer->template = 'contact';
    $this->set('name', $name);
    $this->set('email', $email);
    $this->set('message', $message);
    $this->Mailer->send();
    $this->log( $this->Mailer->subject . ' -> Name:'. $name .' | E-posta: '. $email .' | Message: '. $message .' | smtp error: '. serialize($this->Mailer->smtpError) );
    return $this->Mailer->smtpError ? false : true;
  }
}

That’s all! Check Bakery for other cakes