WebDev3000 » PHP http://www.webdev3000.com web design, freebies and more Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:07:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Videola http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/ http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:45:51 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=981 I don’t know about you, but I think that a really good book simply doesn’t need a movie adaptation. For example, I simply wasn’t able to watch Dune after reading Frank Herbert’s books. If I have to eliminate one of the following – music, video and text – it’s always the video part that goes out. I know it may sound strange, but that’s my personal opinion and I’m not going to change it anytime soon. Well, my personal opinion doesn’t stop me from writing about video-related piece of code, so here’s Videola!

Built on Drupal and open sourced, Videola is, as far as the official mumbo-jumbo goes, “an enterprise-level video management system and video delivery platform. It allows you to create paid-access or free-access video websites which can serve video to the desktop, mobile, or television-based devices.” This piece of code allows you to easily create your own video streaming website using any business model you consider best – subscription (Netflix On-Demand style), ad-supported (Hulu style) or rental (Blockbuster / Amazon style). Obviously, you can (and should, I guess) use your own video content…

… so if you got enough videos ready to be streamed, I think the features at your disposal should be more than enough – Videola offers quite a few of them, including extensive video analytics, HD/adaptive bitrate/secure video streaming, user queues, listing of similar videos on each page, option to show video previews to non-subscribed users, in-stream ads and even iOS & Android compatible mobile streaming via WiFi or 3G. Awesome!

In case you’re still wondering, you should know that Videola works with all major browsers, including mobile ones, requiring that you have PHP & MySQL up and running on your server. A demo can be accessed right here. That’s all, folks!

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/feed/ 1 WD3K Ajax Sliding Contact Form 1.0 released http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 21:10:51 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=952 Hello,

Warm day today. But also a WP one ;)  What’s new in the WordPress kitchen ?

I would like to introduce first version of the WD3K Ajax Sliding Contact Form plugin.

This plugin generates nice jQuery powered sliding contact form in the left border of your WP blog. Contains client side validation and Ajax powered mailing, so no page refresh is required. Admin section allows you to configure all form labels including error messages and form status messages. The plugin is based on Contactable (jQuery Plugin) By Philip Beel.

More information and download link can be found in wordpress plugin repository here. Enjoy it !

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/feed/ 15 WD3K sexy social 0.9 released http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-sexy-social-0-9-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-sexy-social-0-9-released/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 20:59:31 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=944 Hello,

Today I released the initial version of my new wordpress plugin named WD3K Sexy Social.

Plugin places animated social icons under your WP posts and let your users to share your posts on many famous social network sites. Currently following social networks are supported:

  1. bebo
  2. delicious
  3. digg
  4. facebook
  5. friendfeed
  6. google
  7. google_buzz
  8. linkedin
  9. myspace
  10. netvibes
  11. newsvine
  12. reddit
  13. stumbleupon
  14. technorati
  15. tumblr
  16. twitter

I added a bit of jQuery code to make it animated. New version will contain one more animation style so you can select the one you like. Feel free to post your comments and requirements about this new plugin.

Looking for demo ? Just take a look bellow this post and share it ;)  You can download the plugin here.

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It was pretty simple to understand it, I was just under stress and that makes me do stupid things. So what’s the proper order…

  1. Create new directory in tags folder (dir name  = version number e.g. 2.1.0) in your WP repository
  2. Copy all files to this directory
  3. When you’re done with step above, commit all changes to trunk directory

It’s very important to follow these steps in proper order because if you won’t, it will mess up WP plugin update engine completely. One more thing… Don’t forget to update version numbers in your readme.txt and main plugin file itself.

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Hello,

Today I released few minor upgrades for About Me 3000 widget. The latest one is 1.98

Whats new ?

  • Added Flickr profile
  • Added Xing profile
  • Added Posterous profile
  • Links now open in new window

Currently I’m thinking about new features requested by users mentioned in my previous posts, so feel free to comment here and let me know what you like , what you don’t or what you would like to see in next versions.   I’ll try to implement as many of them as possible ;)

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Today’s main keywords should be HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery front end, framework and, best part of it all, free. G5 is free for personal and even commercial use as long as humans.txt remains unchanged and placed right inside the index head. If all these are not enough to make things clear, let me add that G5 is a framework that can help you to easily build PHP-powered HTML5 websites making use of resources like Modernizr, CSS3 Pie, jQuery and others, providing excellent compatibility even with older browsers, as well as a bunch of useful features, including GZip support, robots.txt / robots meta, shorthand CSS with some basic reusable classes, sticky footer and more.

G5‘s default design provides a 940 pixels total content width in a “F” shape, coming with a bunch of popular items like Orbit, Reveal or Tipsy. This freely available framework requires only PHP and, obviously, one of those major browsers – seems we’re getting more and more of them with each day, don’t you think? Anyway, if you encounter any problems with G5, don’t be shy and get back here to drop a comment – as long as it’s not spam or nonsense, it will be our pleasure to publish your thoughts. Thank you in advance! ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/g5/feed/ 0 LikePortal http://www.webdev3000.com/likeportal/ http://www.webdev3000.com/likeportal/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:22:42 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=902 I am in shock – it seems Facebook has become more popular than Google and porn together!!! I know that this may seem complete bullshit to some of you, but here’s the proof – what can you say against that, huh??? Now, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a lot of people are looking for Facebook clone scripts these days, but we won’t get that far – LikePortal should be enough for now…

… especially since LikePortal has a lot to do with Facebook – after all, its main purpose is to help you create unique likes to share on Facebook, then watch what’s happening with them – the amount of people that press those Like buttons, comments… not to mention that LikePortal also supports sharing of your content on Twitter too, next to Facebook!

Available as donationware, LikePortal uses MySQL and PHP, coming with support for multiple languages, including Chinese, using it is really easy and – at least theoretically – works best with Firefox, Opera and Chrome, but I have to tell you that I noticed some glitches while browsing it in Opera (the official page of the product is also a demo of the script itself…). Was it only me, or is this a problem everyone has? Feel free to drop a comment below, I would be grateful! That’s all, folks! ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/likeportal/feed/ 0 Infinite Responder http://www.webdev3000.com/infinite-responder/ http://www.webdev3000.com/infinite-responder/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:23:01 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=869 I don’t know if it’s only me and the emails I receive, but some messages don’t really need my attention – it’s not spam, just messages from friends that usually get answers like “I have seen that video 2 years ago.” or “Sorry, but I don’t have time for that.” and so on. I am sure you got the idea, but having a customizable autoresponder script at your disposal gets way beyond all the above – no need to tell you how useful can be such a thing for a business, right?

Leaving aside the features and Infinite Responder‘s ease of use, the most interesting part of this story is that most similar scripts, some of them sporting far less features, come for money. In fact, I think that most products that have anything to do with email campaigns, lead generation or newsletters are overpriced like hell, but let’s leave that and take a look at the official mumbo-jumbo now, shall we?

“Infinite Responder is an autoresponder & newsletter hybrid that allows you to send as many messages, as many emails to as many lists as you want. It can behave as both a sequential autoresponder and a newsletter mailer.”

With features like a full Web-based control panel, global blacklist, unlimited custom fields or email-based subscriptions, this GPL-licensed script requires a Web server with Apache or IIS, PHP 4.3+, MySQL 4+, the IMAP library (for bounce and mail checking) and, finally, Crontab (for scheduled mail sending). Well, I guess that’s all for today and I am sure some of you will find Infinite Responder to be a real treasure in a world of scams and overpriced piece of code. Good luck! ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/infinite-responder/feed/ 0 Open Web Analytics http://www.webdev3000.com/open-web-analytics/ http://www.webdev3000.com/open-web-analytics/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:36:28 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=861 Apart from these sites I don’t own but I write for with pleasure, I have a few sites of my own that I update only once in a while, so I couldn’t care less about Google Analytics. In fact, I don’t even use that – WordPress Stats is more than enough for my needs. On the other hand, I would be a fool to deny the fact that a lot of people need some serious Web analytics solutions, so I am sure one that’s also free AND open source would come in really handy. Ladies and gents, here’s Open Web Analytics! ;)

Shortly known as OWA, Open Web Analytics is a not-so-little (current release, 1.4.1, comes in a 5.9 MB archive) piece of code that can be easily used to track and analyze how people use your websites and online applications, offering two vital features: built-in installer for both WordPress and MediaWiki sites! The rest of it is nothing but background noise, but let me give you a few directions…

… if you go to the official site I mentioned above you will find all the things you need to know about Open Web Analytics, but if you really want to be quick in deciding if OWA is worth the effort or not, you should start with the comparison between OWA, Google Analytics and Piwik 1.0. If you’re planning to use it with a WordPress site (or more), you could jump straight to the installation page – believe me, even my mother could make OWA work with a WordPress site!

Anyway, since this article’s intention is far from reviewing OWA, I think it’s enough to take the info above and use it as you see fit. To me, Open Web Analytics looks awesome and all I can hope is that you find it useful for your needs. That’s all, folks!

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/open-web-analytics/feed/ 0 PHP Text to Image http://www.webdev3000.com/php-text-to-image/ http://www.webdev3000.com/php-text-to-image/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:28:00 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=846 Why would you convert text to image? Well, the first thing that comes into my mind when I hear this is “to avoid spam,” since it’s almost impossible to automatically gather email addresses displayed as images, while those that get displayed as plain text information will soon land into the spammers’ list of vitims. Today, the time has come for a quick look at PHP Text to Image, an image handling class that does exactly what its name says…

… or, as the official mumbo-jumbo says – “This script is a means to convert a string of text into an image. This has some simple uses such as displaying text such as email address that cannot be programmatically found. This can help to reduce the possibility of your email address being picked up by web crawlers and used for junk mail.”

PHP Text to Image is freely available, but only seems to work with Latin characters. The most unfortunate part of it all is that this script doesn’t seem to be maintained properly, and a lot of problems gathered in time, for example the fact that you get a really ugly image, with aliased fonts, not to mention the fact that similar solutions offer more flexibility. On the other hand, the PHP code is available on the page I mentioned above, so you can improve PHP Text to Image by yourself, if you got the time and skills required. After all, that’s why I bothered to mention this piece of code here, so… good luck, folks – you will probably need it… ;)

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