Tanya Nam

Automatically download log files through FTP

Tanya — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:43:32 +0000

Schedule a cron command that looks like this:

wget ftp://username:password@ftp_host/file_to_download

Can also specify file name masks: (in my case I want all .gz log files)

wget ftp://username:password@ftp_host/logs/*.gz

Ultimate website launch checklist

Tanya — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:04:22 +0000

http://www.boxuk.com/blog/the-ultimate-website-launch-checklist

Uncaught SoapFault exception / Invalid parameters Error

Tanya — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:35:23 +0000

I am using nusoap library to connect to Kintera API. It worked fine on my other sites, but this one was giving me the following error message:

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [Client] SoapClient::SoapClient() [soapclient.soapclient]: Invalid parameters in /test.php:147 Stack trace: #0 /test.php(147): SoapClient->SoapClient(’KinteraConnect….’, true) #1 {main} thrown in /test.php on line 147

Line 147 has the following code:

$client = new soapclient($wsdl,true);

After reading up online a bit, it seems this error appears on PHP 5 servers because of class name conflicts. So I opened up nusoap.php file and figured that you could just use nusoap_client as a class name. Code piece from nusoap.php

if (!extension_loaded('soap')) {

/***    For backwards compatiblity, define soapclient unless the PHP SOAP extension is loaded.*/

class soapclient extends nusoap_client {

}

}

So I just went ahead and changed

$client = new soapclient($wsdl,true);

$client = new nusoap_client($wsdl,true);

and it fixed it.

Code colorizers, code highlighters

Tanya — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:22:51 +0000

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/12/time-savers-code-beautifier-and-formatter/

Modifying Drupal download_count module to show files per user

Tanya — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:11:04 +0000

Task:

allow file downloads for only registered users in Drupal
for admins, show download count for each file
show which user downloaded which files

The download_count module is great for #1 and #2. However, it doesn’t save any information about users.

Here’s some modifications I’ve added to it to accomplish #3.

In the download_count.module file, find download_count_file_download() function. It saves the information about downloaded files into “file_downloads” table.

I created another similar table, called it “file_download_users” (columns: filename, user_id, timestamp) where I am going to save information about each download and keep user IDs.
Made sure I use global $user in this function
Insert the information about users into my new table:

db_query(”INSERT INTO {file_downloads_users} (filename, user_id, timestamp) VALUES (’%s’, %d,%d)”, $filename, $user->uid, time());

Now I write my own hook_user function:

/**

 * Implementation of hook_user()

 */



function download_count_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $caterory = NULL) {

  if ($op == ‘view’) 

  {

   

   $result = db_query(“SELECT filename FROM file_downloads_users WHERE user_id = %d”, $account->uid);



   while ($file_array = db_fetch_object($result)) {

      $file_str .= $file_array->filename . ‘
’;

   }

     $account->content[’summary’][‘file_downloads’] =  array(

      ‘#type’ => ‘user_profile_item’,

      ‘#title’ => t(‘File Downloads’),

      ‘#value’ => $file_str,

      ‘#weight’ => 1

    );

        

  }

  

}

?>

The above is Drupal 6 version. First I wrote one for Drupal 5 and it just didn’t work for me, until some nice fellow from StackOverflow pointed out the difference between 5 and 6 when it comes to handling user hooks.

Here’s the Drupal 5 version:



function download_count_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $caterory = NULL) {



  if ($op == ‘view’)

  {

    $result = db_query(“SELECT filename FROM file_downloads_users WHERE user_id = %d”, $account->uid);



    while ($file = db_fetch_object($result)) {

      $file_str .= $file->filename . ‘
’;

    }

   $items[‘downloads’] = array(

    ‘title’ => t(‘Files’),

    ‘value’ => $file_str,

    ‘class’ => ‘member’

    );

    return array(t(‘Downloads’)=>$items);

 }

}

?>

Now when you login into your user account after downloading some files, you’ll see that info displayed as a part of your user profile:

Text resizing with JavaScript

Tanya — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:44:29 +0000


<HTML>
 <HEAD>
<script>

function init() {

  if($(‘container’))
    textSize.init();
}

var textSize = {
  small:  ‘80%’,
  medium: ‘100%’,
  large:  ‘120%’,

  init: function() {
    var small_text  = $(’small_text’);
    var medium_text = $(‘medium_text’);
    var large_text  = $(‘large_text’);
    var container   = $(‘container’);

    var textSizeCookie     = readCookie(‘textSize’);
    var textSizeCookieName = readCookie(‘textSizeName’);
    if(textSizeCookie && textSizeCookieName) {
      container.style.fontSize = textSizeCookie;
      textSize.resetClassNames();
      eval(textSizeCookieName + ‘_text’).className = ‘current’;
    }

    small_text.onclick = function() {
      textSize.resetClassNames();
      this.className = ‘current’;
      createCookie(‘textSize’, textSize.small, 14);
      createCookie(‘textSizeName’, ’small’, 14);
      container.style.fontSize = textSize.small;
      $(‘header’).style.fontSize = ‘11px’;
    }
    medium_text.onclick = function() {
      textSize.resetClassNames();
      this.className = ‘current’;
      createCookie(‘textSize’, textSize.medium, 14);
      createCookie(‘textSizeName’, ‘medium’, 14);
      container.style.fontSize = textSize.medium;
      $(‘header’).style.fontSize = ‘11px’;
    }
    large_text.onclick = function() {
      textSize.resetClassNames();
      this.className = ‘current’;
      createCookie(‘textSize’, textSize.large, 14);
      createCookie(‘textSizeName’, ‘large’, 14);
      container.style.fontSize = textSize.large;
      $(‘header’).style.fontSize = ‘11px’;
    }
  },

  resetClassNames: function() {
    $(’small_text’).className  = ”;
    $(‘medium_text’).className = ”;
    $(‘large_text’).className  = ”;
  }
};

function $(element_id) {
  var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
  return (element == null) ? (false) : (element);
}

function createCookie(name, value, days) {
  if (days) {
    var date = new Date();
    date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));
    var expires = ‘; expires=’ + date.toGMTString();
  }
  else var expires = ”;
  document.cookie = name + ‘=’ + value + expires + ‘; path=/’;
}

function readCookie(name) {
  var nameEQ = name + “=”;
  var ca = document.cookie.split(‘;’);
  for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
    var c = ca[i];
    while (c.charAt(0)==‘ ‘) c = c.substring(1,c.length);
    if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
  }
  return null;
}

function eraseCookie(name) {
  createCookie(name, ”, -1);
}

if (document.addEventListener) {
  document.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”, init, false);
}
/* for Internet Explorer */
/*@cc_on @*/
/*@if (@_win32)
  document.write(”