How to Update Ubuntu Hardy to PHP 5.2.9
April 24, 2009
Categories: IT & Administration, Web & Software Development
Tags: Linux, PHP, Ubuntu
First upgrade your software as is.
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get upgrade
Then add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
>> sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable all deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ stable all
Finally
run the update to install PHP 5.2.9.
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install php5-cli
>> sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Global page navigation accross WordPress MU blogs
January 29, 2009
Categories: Web & Software Development
Tags: Wordpress, WordPress MU
Here’s the scenario. You have a WordPress MU site with multiple blogs, but for whatever reason, you want every blog to have the same main navigation and pages. Your main site/blog hosts all of your pages. So how do you go about creating a WordPress MU Theme that will use the navigation and pages from your main site/blog accross all of your blogs? Well, I’m here to tell you how I did it.
The WordPress Codex has a function called ‘wp_list_pages.’ What I wanted to do is create a new function called ‘wp_list_main_pages.’ So I simply searched my WordPress install and copied the ‘get_pages’ and ‘wp_list_pages’ functions and pasted them into my theme’s ‘functions.php’ file. From here I made a few edits to these functions. To start with, I renamed them ‘wp_list_main_pages’ and ‘get_main_pages.’
Below is the final code I’m using to display the main navigation accross blogs. I made notes in bold to help. Hope this is helpful to you Googling coders.
// You can use this function instead of 'wp_list_pages' in your theme
function wp_list_main_pages($args = '') {
$defaults = array(
'depth' => 0, 'show_date' => '',
'date_format' => get_option('date_format'),
'child_of' => 0, 'exclude' => '',
'title_li' => __('Pages'), 'echo' => 1,
'authors' => '', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order, post_title'
);
$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );
$output = '';
$current_page = 0;
// sanitize, mostly to keep spaces out
$r['exclude'] = preg_replace('[^0-9,]', '', $r['exclude']);
// Allow plugins to filter an array of excluded pages
$r['exclude'] = implode(',', apply_filters('wp_list_pages_excludes', explode(',', $r['exclude'])));
// Query pages.
$r['hierarchical'] = 0;
// Right here we call our new 'get_main_pages' function
$pages = get_main_pages($r);
if ( !empty($pages) ) {
if ( $r['title_li'] )
$output .= '<li class="pagenav">' . $r['title_li'] . '<ul>';
global $wp_query;
if ( is_page() || $wp_query->is_posts_page )
$current_page = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id();
$output .= walk_page_tree($pages, $r['depth'], $current_page, $r);
if ( $r['title_li'] )
$output .= '</ul></li>';
}
$output = apply_filters('wp_list_pages', $output);
// This line is sloppy and needs improvement.
// You have to remove the name of the blog your currently on from you global navigation.
// I'm doing this the simplest but least scalable way here.
$output = str_replace("pressroom/", "", $output);
if ( $r['echo'] )
echo $output;
else
return $output;
}
// This is essentially a private function
function &get_main_pages($args = '') {
global $wpdb;
// This is the magic line.
// Now when the SQL runs to pull your navigation pages, it'll use your main blogs ID.
$wpdb->set_blog_id(1);
// Notice here I call the original get_pages function and return the results
$pages = get_pages($args);
return $pages;
}
ASP.Net US States Dropdown List
May 14, 2008
Categories: Web & Software Development
Tags: ASP.Net
For large projects I usually databind my dropdown lists, but sometimes you just need a no-nonsense dropdown list of US States. For all you folks Googling to save time, here’s that code. Enjoy!
<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownListState" runat="server"> <asp:ListItem Value="AL">Alabama</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="AK">Alaska</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="AZ">Arizona</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="AR">Arkansas</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="CA">California</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="CO">Colorado</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="CT">Connecticut</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="DC">District of Columbia</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="DE">Delaware</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="FL">Florida</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="GA">Georgia</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="HI">Hawaii</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="ID">Idaho</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="IL">Illinois</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="IN">Indiana</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="IA">Iowa</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="KS">Kansas</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="KY">Kentucky</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="LA">Louisiana</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="ME">Maine</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="MD">Maryland</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="MA">Massachusetts</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="MI">Michigan</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="MN">Minnesota</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="MS">Mississippi</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="MO">Missouri</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="MT">Montana</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="NE">Nebraska</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="NV">Nevada</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="NH">New Hampshire</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="NJ">New Jersey</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="NM">New Mexico</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="NY">New York</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="NC">North Carolina</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="ND">North Dakota</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="OH">Ohio</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="OK">Oklahoma</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="OR">Oregon</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="PA">Pennsylvania</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="RI">Rhode Island</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="SC">South Carolina</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="SD">South Dakota</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="TN">Tennessee</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="TX">Texas</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="UT">Utah</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="VT">Vermont</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="VA">Virginia</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="WA">Washington</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="WV">West Virginia</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="WI">Wisconsin</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="WY">Wyoming</asp:ListItem> </asp:DropDownList>
C# How to get a QueryString value from the UrlReferrer
April 24, 2008
Categories: Web & Software Development
Tags: C#
To get a QueryString value from the previous pages URL (aka: the UrlReferrer) you can use HttpUtility.ParseQueryString.
Like this!
NameValueCollection nameValueCollection = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(Request.UrlReferrer.Query); string keyword = nameValueCollection["kw"];
“And that’s all I have to say about that.”
ActionScript 3.0 - Global Variable & On Mouse Click Event
April 22, 2008
Categories: Web & Software Development
Tags: ActionScript 3.0, Flash
I got to do a little ActionScript 3.0 work today. I can’t help but wonder what type of things I could create using Flash and ActionScript. Seems like it could be pretty fun. Do ActionScript programmers make good rates compared to .Net programmers?
Anyways. Here’s a few examples of some really basic ActionScript 3.0 stuff.
Here’s an example of how to create and use a global variable in ActionScript 3.0.
var intClicks:int = 0;
function showDoves():void {
++intClicks;
if(intClicks >= 5){
_movieDoves.visible = true;
}
}
And here is an example of how to add an “on click” mouse event listener function in ActionScript 3.0.
_btnFact1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClickBtnFact1);
function onClickBtnFact1(evt:MouseEvent):void {
_fact1.visible = true;
}
That’s all I got. I just wanted to document this so I can reference it later. I hope it’s helpful to you.
