juust ~ php oddities » juust http://www.juust.org Unordered list of one element Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 wish you were here http://www.juust.org/index.php/wish-you-were-here/2010/07/ http://www.juust.org/index.php/wish-you-were-here/2010/07/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:34:06 +0000 juust http://www.juust.org/?p=1281 Here is some shot from my new job (’sailor’) : basically what we do is sail around all day with guests.

terschelling

plaatjes 002 (Medium)


aldebaran


den oever

When we are done sailing we go party with Heidi and Heino and the local clergy


eersteling 148 (Medium)


texel


dutch clergy

…or we enjoy the serene peace and beauty of nature and stuff…


volendam


stavoren


laaxum

…all summer…

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We do that every year, a dive in the north sea.

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Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer; abbreviated to MSIE or, more commonly, IE), is totally retarded.

ie is retarded

(rotflmao, sorry, I had not seen that one before)

….they fixed it :(

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There is more to life than backlinks :)

]]> http://www.juust.org/index.php/gone-sailing/2009/10/feed/ 1 integrating ms office and wordpress with vba and xml-rpc http://www.juust.org/index.php/integrating-ms-office-and-wordpress-with-vba-and-xml-rpc/2009/10/ http://www.juust.org/index.php/integrating-ms-office-and-wordpress-with-vba-and-xml-rpc/2009/10/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:20:53 +0000 juust http://www.juust.org/?p=979 Okay.

Yesterday I made some basic stuff to grab my Wordpress blog data with visual basic for applicationsn cos I don’t feel like programming php admin pages for tables.

So let’s make a basic xml-rpc crud plugin and put my agenda on vba remote control.

The basic xml-rpc plugin is simple, plug extra methods into the xml-rpc method array, and write a function per crud-method.

  1.  
  2. add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', 'add_agenda_xmlrpc_methods' );
  3.  
  4. function add_agenda_xmlrpc_methods( $methods ) {
  5.     $methods['agenda.addAgendaItem'] = 'addAgendaItem';
  6.     $methods['agenda.updateAgendaItem'] = 'updateAgendaItem';
  7.     $methods['agenda.deleteAgendaItem'] = 'deleteAgendaItem';
  8.     $methods['agenda.reportAgendaItem'] = 'reportAgendaItem';
  9.     return $methods;
  10. }
  11.  
  12. function addAgendaItem($args) { }
  13.  
  14. function updateAgendaItem($args) { }
  15.  
  16. function deleteAgendaItem($args) { }
  17.  
  18. function reportAgendaItem($args) { }
  19.  
  20. //basic login helper function
  21. function CheckLogin($user, $pwd) {}

There now, if I call on the xmlrpc.php file, the extra methods are added to the callback array and I can use the table CRUD functions from my vba desktop.

  1. function addAgendaItem($args) {
  2.  
  3.         $blog_id = (int) $args[0];
  4.         $username = $args[1];
  5.         $password = $args[2];
  6.         $AgendaItem     = $args[3];
  7.  
  8. //remember : add a login check
  9. //(for the example it is irrelevant)
  10.  
  11.         global $wpdb;
  12.         $sql = "INSERT INTO ".$wpdb->prefix."Agenda (
  13.                `userid`, `tags`, `description`, `firstdate`, `enddate`, `link`, `price`, `location`
  14.                ) VALUES (
  15.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['userid']."',
  16.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['tags']."',
  17.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['description']."',
  18.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['firstdate']."',
  19.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['enddate']."',
  20.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['link']."',
  21.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['price']."',
  22.                '".$AgendaItem[0]['location']."'                
  23.                )";
  24.         $wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare($sql));
  25.  
  26.         return $wpdb->insert_id;
  27. }

note : the agendaitem is a struct in an array (see below), I use [0] to get the first struct (which is the actual array with field-value pairs, my record with agenda info).

Activate the plugin, and write a simple test

  1.  
  2. 'Type to hold an agenda info record
  3. Type AgendaItem
  4.     userid As String
  5.     tags As String
  6.     Description As String
  7.     firstdate As String
  8.     enddate As String
  9.     link As String
  10.     price As String
  11.     location As String
  12. End Type
  13.  
  14.  
  15. Function AddAgendaItem()
  16.  
  17. txtURL = "http://wwwblog.com/xmlrpc.php"
  18. txtUserName = "MyUsername"
  19. txtPassword = "MyPassword"
  20.  
  21.   Dim objSvrHTTP As ServerXMLHTTP
  22.   Dim strT As String
  23.   Set objSvrHTTP = New ServerXMLHTTP
  24.  
  25.   objSvrHTTP.Open "POST", txtURL, False, CStr(txtUserName), _
  26.    CStr(txtPassword)
  27.  
  28.   objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Accept", "application/xml"
  29.   objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/xml"
  30.  
  31.     strT = ""
  32.     strT = strT & "<methodcall>"
  33.     strT = strT & "<methodname>agenda.addAgendaItem</methodname>"
  34.    
  35.     strT = strT & "<params>"
  36.     strT = strT & "<param><value><string>" & txtBlogId & "</string></value></param>"
  37.     strT = strT & "<param><value><string>" & txtUserName & "</string></value></param>"
  38.     strT = strT & "<param><value><string>" & txtPassword & "</string></value></param>"
  39.  
  40. 'now we go make the struct, I use a Type (stdobject), normally
  41. 'you'd use a recordset
  42.  
  43. Dim a As AgendaItem
  44.  
  45. With a
  46.     .userid = 1
  47.     .Description = "rpc testing"
  48.     .firstdate = "2009/10/14"
  49.     .enddate = "2009/10/14"
  50.     .link = "http://www.juust.org/"
  51.     .price = "rpc testing"
  52.     .location = "limmen"
  53.     .tags = "php, xml-rpc"
  54. End With
  55.  
  56.     strT = strT & "<param><value><array>"
  57.     strT = strT & "<data>"
  58.    
  59.     strT = strT & "<value><struct>"
  60.  
  61.     strT = strT & "<member><name>userid</name><value><string>" & a.userid & "</string></value></member>"
  62.     strT = strT & "<member><name>tags</name><value><string>" & a.tags & "</string></value></member>"
  63.     strT = strT & "<member><name>description</name><value><string>" & a.Description & "</string></value></member>"
  64.     strT = strT & "<member><name>firstdate</name><value><string>" & a.firstdate & "</string></value></member>"
  65.     strT = strT & "<member><name>enddate</name><value><string>" & a.enddate & "</string></value></member>"
  66.     strT = strT & "<member><name>link</name><value><string>" & a.link & "</string></value></member>"
  67.     strT = strT & "<member><name>price</name><value><string>" & a.price & "</string></value></member>"
  68.     strT = strT & "<member><name>location</name><value><string>" & a.location & "</string></value></member>"
  69.  
  70. 'close the struct    
  71.     strT = strT & "</struct></value>"
  72.     strT = strT & "</data>"
  73.  
  74. 'close the struct array
  75.     strT = strT & "</array></value></param>"
  76.  
  77. 'end parameters
  78.     strT = strT & "</params>"
  79.  
  80. 'end method
  81.     strT = strT & "</methodcall>"
  82.  
  83. 'send the lot to the blog  
  84.   objSvrHTTP.send strT
  85.  
  86. 'print the response to debug
  87.   Debug.Print  objSvrHTTP.responseText
  88.  
  89. End function

Et voila :

agenda rpc

That’s yer basic Office-Wordpress XML-RPC integration.

]]> http://www.juust.org/index.php/integrating-ms-office-and-wordpress-with-vba-and-xml-rpc/2009/10/feed/ 0 wordpress xmlrpc and microsoft access vba http://www.juust.org/index.php/wordpress-xmlrpc-and-microsoft-access-vba/2009/10/ http://www.juust.org/index.php/wordpress-xmlrpc-and-microsoft-access-vba/2009/10/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:05:25 +0000 juust http://www.juust.org/?p=972 I was building a database in Wordpress but their table interface lacks completely and I dont want to spend 200 hours developing a backend for a once-off project.

I always used MsAccess for RAD blueprinting and I reckon you can build a better more flexible interface in 20 hours. With XHR MsAccess has some better internet capabilities these days, a nice simple XMLHttp library.

You can use it for any http rest api in the cloud.

Ajax for Access :) here’s the most basic wordpress xml-rpc call, sayHello.

  1. Sub PutXML()
  2.  
  3. txtURL = "http://www.blog.com/xmlrpc.php"
  4. txtUserName = "user"
  5. txtPassword = "pwd"
  6.  
  7.   Dim objSvrHTTP As ServerXMLHTTP
  8.   Dim strT As String
  9.   Set objSvrHTTP = New ServerXMLHTTP
  10.  
  11.   objSvrHTTP.Open "POST", txtURL, False, CStr(txtUserName), _
  12.    CStr(txtPassword)
  13.  
  14.   objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Accept", "application/xml"
  15.   objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/xml"
  16.  
  17.   strT = ""
  18.   strT = strT & "<methodcall>"
  19.   strT = strT & "<methodname>demo.sayHello</methodname>"
  20.   strT = strT & "</methodcall>"
  21.  
  22.   objSvrHTTP.send strT
  23.  
  24.   MsgBox objSvrHTTP.responseText
  25.  
  26. End Sub

For pre-Vista you need the MSXML 6.0 library from microsoft, in Vista I already had it installed so you can add a reference to the library and off you go.

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