Neerav Dobaria http://www.techna2.com/blog Freelance PHP MySQL Developer Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Hostgator Coupon to get 25% Discount http://www.techna2.com/blog/hostgator-coupon-code/hostgator-coupon-to-get-25-discount/ http://www.techna2.com/blog/hostgator-coupon-code/hostgator-coupon-to-get-25-discount/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:07:32 +0000 Neerav http://www.techna2.com/blog/?p=357 Here is a coupon code to get flat 25% discount on any hostgator hosting plan,

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To use it, visit http://www.hostgator.com/ and while on 1st step insert this code into ‘Copuon Code’ text box.

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Glad to release yet another plugin named ‘WPMS Global Content’. You can download it from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpms-global-content/

Its quite easy to install,

  1. Extract downloaded zip file
  2. Upload ‘wpms-global-content’ directory to to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory of WordPress
  3. Activate plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Once you activate the plugin, you will find a link named ‘WPMS Global Content’ in your ‘Settings’ tab of root site of wordpress multisite network.

Clicking on this link will open configuration page for the plugin as per below image.

wpms global content configurationThis plugin contains only 3 options.

  1. Exclude Following Blogs : Add a list of comma separated blog ids on which you don’t want to show global header/footer, plugin won’t add global header/footer to that blogs.
  2. Header Content : Add content you want to display in header.
  3. Footer Content : Add content you want to display in footer.

Header content will be inserted in html div tag with ID ‘wpmsgcheader’ and footer content will be inserted in html div tag with ID ‘wpmsgcfooter’.

You can use this ids to add suitable css style.

That it for the documentation part :) . If you have any suggestion or find any bug, fill free to drop comment.

]]> http://www.techna2.com/blog/documentation/wpms-global-content/feed/ 20 Script to add index.html to all directories recursively to avoid directory listing http://www.techna2.com/blog/php-scripts/script-to-add-index-html-to-all-directories-recursively-to-avoid-directory-listing/ http://www.techna2.com/blog/php-scripts/script-to-add-index-html-to-all-directories-recursively-to-avoid-directory-listing/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:14:11 +0000 Neerav http://www.techna2.com/blog/?p=335 Hi guys,

Have you caught in situation where you can’t use php.ini or .htaccess file to restrict directory listing, and only solution is to add index.html file to all directory ( In my case it was 379 )?

Well, I just caught in this situation today. Rather than going with manual way, I simply write one function which do it for me automatically and display message for each successfully created file. It also display message if there exist index.html file already in that directory and will keep it as it is in that case.

Rather wasting more time in description, here is the function. You just have to pass the path of directory and the function will add index.html file to all sub-directories of that particular directory. You can optionally pass string which the function will write in generated index.html file.

/**
 * Add index.html file to all dir recursively starting from<br/>
 * give dir, this is extremely helpful when you want to<br/>
 * prevent directory indexing and don't want to add index.html<br/>
 * file to all directory manualy<br/>
 *
 * Display message of success or failure
 * @author Neerav Dobaria < dobaria ##dot## dobaria ##at## gmail.com >
 * @param string $dirPath Path of directory
 * @param string $string Optional String to write on file
 * @return void
 */
function add_index_html($dirPath, $string = "") {
	$objects = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dirPath), RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);

	foreach ($objects as $name => $object) {
		if (is_dir($object->getPathname()) AND FALSE === strpos($object->getPathname(), '.svn')) {
			$dirs[] = $object->getPathname();
		}
	}
	if ("" == $string) {
		$string = '<html>
<head>
	<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>Directory access is forbidden.</p>

</body>
</html>';
	}

	$length = strlen($string);

	foreach ($dirs as $dir) {
		$filename = $dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'index.html';
		if (!file_exists($filename)) {
			$fp = fopen($filename, 'w');
			fputs($fp, $string, $length);
			fclose($fp);
			echo $message[] = '<span style="color:green;">' . $filename . ' added successfully<br/>';
			flush();
		}
		else {
			echo $message[] = '<span style="color:red;">' . $filename . ' already exist</span><br/>';
			flush();
		}
	}
}

add_index_html(dirname(__FILE__));

Hope it will save your time. If you have better solution that this or have any improvement in this script, fill free to submit comment. I would love to hear from you.

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Since you are here, I assume you have already installed WP Post to PDF in your WordPress blog. If not, don’t worry, it’s not all over yet.

It’s pretty easy to install,

  1. Download it from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/
  2. Upload ‘wp-post-to-pdf’ directory to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory of WordPress
  3. Activate plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Simple, isn’t it. Now what’s left is configuration part and surprisingly it’s easy too :) .

Once you activate the plugin, You can see ‘WP Post to PDF’ link in settings tab of WordPress admin area. Clicking that link will load configuration page as per following image.

WP Post to PDF configuration page

WP Post to PDF options can be divided in three major groups. We will discuss all in brief one by one.

Accessibility Options

WP Post to PDF accessibilty options

There are three options which fall in this category.

  1. Non Public Only: Check it if you want to allow only logged in users to download PDF file.
  2. Only on Single: Check it if you don’t want to display PDF icon on your front-page, this is the page where all your recent blog entries are listed.
  3. Exclude/Include: This option let you exclude/include certain pages/posts exclusively. Provide ID of page/post, separated by comma (,), and select whether you want to exclude/include those post/page. To use PDF download on all page/post, tick “Exclude Following” and leave textbox empty. If you don’t know how to find post/page ID, see this http://www.techtrot.com/wordpress-page-id/

Presentation Options

WP Post to PDF presentation options

There are two options which fall in this category.

  1. Icon Position: Select position where you want to display PDF icon.
    Available options are

    1. Before: Display before the post content
    2. After: Display after the post content
    3. Before and After: Display before and after post content
    4. Manual: Plugin will not display Icon anywhere, You have to use following function within your template file to display icon where you want 
      <?php if (function_exists("wpptopdf_display_icon")) echo wpptopdf_display_icon();?>
  2. PDF Download Link: Provide HTML content you want to use as PDF download link. You can write any HTML content. To display pretty PDF icon as it was in earlier version, use the code provided just below the “PDF Download Link” Text field on plugin settings page.

PDF Formatting Options

WP Post to PDF - PDF Formatting Options

There are eight options which fall in this category.

  1. Other Plugins: Check this if you want to accommodate changes applied by other plugins at runtime into PDF.
  2. Process Shortcodes: Check this if you want to process short codes and display its output in generated PDF file.
  3. Header Logo Image: When you activate plugin, It will place image named ‘wp-post-to-pdf-logo.png’ in ‘‘/wp-content/uploads’ directory. Replace it with your desired one.
  4. Header Font: Set font type you want to use in header text
  5. Header Font Size: Set font size for the header text
  6. Footer Font: Set font type you want to use in footer text
  7. Footer Font Size: Set font size for the footer text
  8. Content Font: Set font type you want to use in main content text
  9. Content Font Size: Set font size for the main content text

Beware that the Arial unicode font is not displayed correctly by all PDF viewers. Ubuntu’s default document viewer displays empty pages, but xpdf displays okay, except for some Cyrillic texts.

PDF icon you see in right corner of this post is the demonstration of this plugin.

Feel free to click on it and download this post as PDF.

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Thanks Marcel for your valuable efforts on resolving some issues and SEO tips.

]]> http://www.techna2.com/blog/documentation/wp-post-to-pdf/feed/ 254 The Piecemaker for WordPress – Documentation http://www.techna2.com/blog/documentation/the-piecemaker-for-wordpress-%e2%80%93-documentation/ http://www.techna2.com/blog/documentation/the-piecemaker-for-wordpress-%e2%80%93-documentation/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:30:47 +0000 Neerav http://www.techna2.com/blog/?p=260 Hello Friends,

Good news is now The Piecemaker is available for WordPress as well. What does it mean? Well, now you can add PIecemaker 3D flash image gallery by modular web with as little effort as possible. Following are the simple steps required to install and configure The Piecemaker WordPress plugin

First of all, download plugin from WordPress Extensions site  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-piecemaker/ and activate it.

You will see link for options page in Settings tab of wordpress admin area, as per following image.

The Piecemaker for wordpress options page

There are two kind of options are available,

General Options

1.       Select Category

If you select category here, following two options ( Image URL’s and Image Descriptions) will be irrelevant. Slideshow will be build by posts in this category. You have to add extra custom field in post named ‘the_piecemaker_image’ and url of image as value of that field. Make sure you use relative URL starting with root of your wordpress installation. Post excerpt will be used as the description of the image with ‘Read More’ link pointing to the article page. If you chose this option, don’t forget to rebuild cache each time you publish new post in category you choose here.

2.       Image URL’s

If you have selected to use manual configuration for slideshow, add relative URL of images, starting with root of your wordpress installation, each on new line. You can add as much image URLs as you want, there is no limitations.

3.       Image Descriptions

Add description for each image separated by line break here. There is limited support for HTML tags in this field. You can use following tags,

<headline></headline>
<break>Ӂ</break>
<inlilne></inline>
<paragraph></paragraph>
<a href="http://www.hyperlink.com/" target="_blank">hyperlinks</a>

Complete description for single image should be something like below, make sure you enter everything in single line that belongs to single image. Add empty line break if you don’t want to have description for image.

4.       Width

Set width of slideshow in PX, Set it to the width of image you are using for slideshow. Use all image of equal size for better presentation.

5.       Height

Set height of slideshow in PX, Set it to the height of image you are using for slideshow. Use all image of equal size for better presentation.

6.       Shadow

Select this is you want to display Shadow below slideshow.

Advanced Options

Each of them are self explanatory and have description at the bottom of field. I am just mentioning its name here; in bracket is its default value. Feel free play with it to see the effect. To set it back to default, just leave that field empty.

1.       Segments (7)

2.       Tween Time (1.2)

3.       Tween Delay (0.1)

4.       Tween Type (easeInOutBack)

5.       Z Distance (0)

6.       Expand (20)

7.       Inner Color (#111111)

8.       Text Background Color (#0064C8)

9.       Shadow Darkness (100)

10.   Text Distance (25)

11.   Auto Play (12)

At last there is option named ‘Rebuild Cache’ in red box. Each time you change any of above option, you have to check it to update options in configuration file of the plugin. Uncheck it once confirmed the changes are applied to improve performance.

The Piecemaker for wordpress rebuild cache

How to Display

To display The Piecemake slide show as per configured in options page, you can publish The Piecemake widget at suitable sidebar position of your theme.

If you can’t find suitable sidebar position available to display slideshow, copy and paste following php code in your templates file where you want to display the slideshow,

<?php if (function_exists(display_the_piecemaker())) display_the_piecemaker(); ?>
]]> http://www.techna2.com/blog/documentation/the-piecemaker-for-wordpress-%e2%80%93-documentation/feed/ 59 The Tranquil – Documentation http://www.techna2.com/blog/documentation/the-tranquil-documentation/ http://www.techna2.com/blog/documentation/the-tranquil-documentation/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:21:43 +0000 Neerav http://vareen.wordpress.com/?p=238 Hello friends, glad to share another module to community named ‘The Tranquil’ after the simplicity and elegance it has.

Just in case you are not aware of, The Tranquil is a native Joomla 1.5 module to include simple and elegant flash slide show to your Joomla site. You can download it from Joomla extensions site, http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/flash-slideshow/14048.

It has number of options available to configure it, You possible can customize everything visible in that module. Besides you can customize them for each individual image in the slide show.

Following image demonstrate how you can add details of each slide in the module,

The Tranquil 1You can add 10 image by default, but if you have little knowledge of XML you can add as much images as you want. Each image can be configured as per mentioned in above image.

Following image contains list of general options available, which will be applied throughout the slide show.

The Tranquil 2All options have tooltip which are self explanatory. Still if you have any problems or issues, feel free to add comments.

Enjoy The Tranquil!

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It’s made very easy to use, you just have to give your image paths and descriptions for images, and rest will be done by module itself. Cool, istn’t it?

Still some documentation is required to better utilize the module. Here we go.

Following snapshot explains you how you can add image and it’s description to gallery.

For description, you can use simple html tags as explained below.

<headline></headline>
<break>Ӂ</break>
<inlilne></inline>
<paragraph></paragraph>
<a href="http://www.hyperlink.com/" target="_blank">hyperlinks</a>

Example Code is as per below

<headline>Description Text</headline><break>Ӂ</break><paragraph>Here you can add a description text for every single image.</paragraph><break>Ӂ</break><inline>This is HTML text loaded from the external XML file and formatted with an external CSS file. So it's pretty simple to set this text. You can also easily add</inline><a href="http://www.modularweb.net/piecemaker" target="_blank">Ӂhyperlinks</a><paragraph>. This one leads you to the official Piecemaker website, by the way.</paragraph>

Please note that don’t use line break in between description of a particular image. The strange character (Ӂ) is required to add break and space between inline character.

This all tags style is defined in \mod_the_piecemaker\banner\xml\piecemakerCSS.css

You can change its style to meet your taste and requirements.

Below image are global parameters for The Piecemaker 3d flash image gallery module for joomla. Most important parameters are width and height. Its preferable you use all images of equal size and set width and height as per below image. All other parameters have good description so you can just read and understand what they stand for.

Set width and height to that of image

If you still have any queries or suggestions, drop email at vareen@in.com.

Enjoy The Piecemaker!!!

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