July 29, 2011

Sending mail to an SMTP server with authentication using JavaMail

Category: Labs, hansengel at 11:14 pm

Many SMTP servers use an authentication system as an extra layer of security in their mail transport. If you need to send email to such a server with JavaMail, the library provides a convenient abstraction of the process. (more…)

March 6, 2010

How to access query string arguments with AS3

Category: ActionScript,Blog, khadlock at 11:49 am

Found a great blog post with an ActionScript 2 class that parses the current URL and creates accessible properties out of query string arguments: http://blog.circlecube.com/2008/03/20/get-current-url-and-query-string-parameters-to-flash-tutorial/ I needed something to parse any URL, so I made a few adjustments and converted the class to AS3. Here’s the updated code:

package
{
	import flash.external.*;

	public class QueryString
	{
		private var _queryString:String;
		private var _all:String;
		private var _params:Object;

		public function QueryString(url:String='')
		{
			readQueryString(url);
		}
		public function get getQueryString():String
		{
			return _queryString;
		}
		public function get url():String
		{
			return _all;
		}
		public function get parameters():Object
		{
			return _params;
		}

		private function readQueryString(url:String=''):void
		{
			_params = new Object();
			try
			{
				_all = (url.length > 0) ? url : ExternalInterface.call("window.location.href.toString");
				_queryString = (url.length > 0) ? url.split("?")[1] : ExternalInterface.call("window.location.search.substring", 1);
				if(_queryString)
				{
					var allParams:Array = _queryString.split('&');
					//var length:uint = params.length;

					for(var i:int=0, index=-1; i < allParams.length; i++)
					{
						var keyValuePair:String = allParams[i];
						if((index = keyValuePair.indexOf("=")) > 0)
						{
							var paramKey:String = keyValuePair.substring(0,index);
							var paramValue:String = keyValuePair.substring(index+1);
							_params[paramKey] = paramValue;
						}
					}
				}
			}
			catch(e:Error)
			{
				trace("Some error occured. ExternalInterface doesn't work in Standalone player.");
			}
		}
	}
}

Here’s an example of how to use the updated version:

var myPath:QueryString = new QueryString("http://www.studiosedition.com/?page=articles");
trace(myPath.parameters.page);

It’s as simple as passing a URL with a query string and then just use the parameters object to access the specific query argument, in this case we’re accessing the page argument, which will give us a value of “articles”.

February 3, 2010

OVO Creative Group launched their new web site

Category: Blog,JavaScript,PHP, Tags: CMS, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, khadlock at 1:22 am

OVO is a branding consultancy specializing in naming, visual identity and integrated marketing for organizations seeking to launch, grow or reinvent themselves. We developed OVO’s web site based on their original designs. Using PHP and MySQL we created a content management system (CMS) for OVO to manage their client projects and organize their project slideshows. We also developed a custom JavaScript slideshow widget that randomizes and animates OVO’s projects based on a custom JSON feed. Read more…

January 22, 2010

Download any video from YouTube

Category: Blog,Video, Tags: Video, youtube, khadlock at 2:20 pm

Found this site that lets you download any video from YouTube by simply entering the URL to the video you want to download. http://keepvid.com [ad#GoogleAdsenseTextLinks]

header("Refresh: 1; URL=http://www.studiosedition.com");

January 6, 2010

403 forbidden with WordPress

Category: Blog,WordPress, khadlock at 1:56 pm

After hours of debugging a 403 forbidden error with a WordPress blog we finally found the issue. Some servers require the following line of code before the default mod_rewrite code provided by WordPress:

Options +FollowSymLinks

So your updated mod_rewrite will look similar to this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

December 28, 2009

NuSOAP – WSDL caching

Category: Blog,PHP, Tags: nusoap, wsdl, khadlock at 2:32 pm

Here’s a great way to speed up your NuSOAP connections with WSDL caching: http://www.norio.be/blog/2008/09/wsdl-caching-nusoap

November 30, 2009

Convert decimal places without rounding

Category: Blog,PHP, khadlock at 1:13 pm

Here’s a quick way to set the number of decimal places to 2 in PHP without rounding a number.

floor($decimal*100)/100

function RemoveAllOptions(selector)
{
     while(selector.hasChildNodes()) selector.removeChild(selector.childNodes[0]);
}

November 17, 2009

MySQL REGEXP: where first letter is numeric

Category: Blog,MySQL, Tags: mysql, regexp, khadlock at 11:58 am

Get MySQL results where the first letter is numeric:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE (LEFT(columnname,1) REGEXP '[0-9]')

Or get MySQL results where the first letter is alpha:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE (LEFT(columnname,1) REGEXP '[a-z]')

SELECT * FROM table WHERE id IN ( SELECT DISTINCT id FROM table WHERE id=1 )

November 14, 2009

Get MySQL results by first letter

Category: Blog,MySQL, Tags: mysql, khadlock at 7:20 pm

The following SQL selects all the rows where columnname starts with the letter A, switch the letter or make it a variable and get the results you need.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE columnname LIKE 'A%'

$get = (object)$_GET;
echo $get->sample;

$post = (object)$_POST;
echo $post->sample;

Submit an Inquiry for your project

Category: Blog,Studio Sedition, khadlock at 11:32 am

You can now submit an inquiry for your web project at http://www.studiosedition.com/inquire

November 6, 2009

The imagetoolbar meta tag

Category: Blog,HTML, Tags: IE6, meta, khadlock at 12:24 pm

Here’s an oldie, but a goodie. Remove the pop-up that appears over images in Internet Explorer 6:

November 3, 2009

decompress gz with php

Category: Blog,PHP, Tags: exec, gunzip, gzip, PHP, khadlock at 9:14 pm

I had a lot of trouble getting zlib to work today with PHP on our Media Temple DV server, but after a lot of testing discovered an easy solution to decompressing/unzipping .gz files.

exec("gunzip Filename.gz", $results);

Once decompressed I can read the file contents using fopen, file_get_contents, etc. More information on the gzip commands can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip

$a = array_diff($a, array(""));

$a = array_diff($a, array("\n"));

Custom CSS Signatures

Category: Blog,CSS, Tags: Apple, Branding, Design, khadlock at 2:52 pm

I feel that any form of branding is important, especially when it comes to sending emails. Think about it, how many emails do you send a day? This post has been around for a while, but I often refer to it when designing a new email signature and thought it was worth sharing: http://allforces.com/2006/04/14/css-signatures/ It’s so easy to follow if you use Apple Mail. Here’s the new one I’m using based on this article: http://www.studiosedition.com/branding/email-signature.html

My first WordPress blog

Category: Blog,WordPress, Tags: WordPress, khadlock at 11:28 am

Believe it or not, this is my first WordPress blog, I’ve created themes and plugins, but never used it myself. I’ll post my findings along with my usual code and design examples.