Torrential Web Dev Comments

Jonathan Street: Displaying a google pagerank

nospam@example.com (Jonathan Street) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:04:32 +0000

Hi Vince

Is it just the cached value which is stuck on zero or is the value returned from the google servers also zero?

Vince: Displaying a google pagerank

nospam@example.com (Vince) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:46:05 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

the nice script worked for years without any problems. Well, but after updating the server from Suse Linux 8.2 to 10.1 The script caches but the cached files are only displaying a PR 0. What goes wrong now?
Thank you for a little bit help.
greetz, Vince

Upeksha: Grabbing contact list from yahoo, MSN & Gmail

nospam@example.com (Upeksha) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:46:02 +0000

I managed to make it working.

Ben Shelock: Displaying a google pagerank

nospam@example.com (Ben Shelock) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:47:59 +0000

Great script. Thanks

Jonathan Street: Plugins for php frameworks

nospam@example.com (Jonathan Street) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:56:11 +0000

Very interesting!

This seems to be exactly the type of thing I was thinking about. It looks as though you have the full range of plugins I talked about from the simple login system right up to blogs and forums.

Thanks for posting.

Fabien: Plugins for php frameworks

nospam@example.com (Fabien) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:10:32 +0000

You missed the built-in plugin support we have in symfony. It is one of the great strength of the symfony framework.

A symfony plugin can package anything you can have in a "normal" project: controllers, templates, images, javascripts, routing rules, configuration, and much more.

As an added bonus, it's pretty easy to install a symfony plugin (the system is based on PEAR):

./symfony plugin:install sfGuardPlugin

The great thing about being based on PEAR is that you can host you own symfony plugin repository and can manage dependencies, symfony and PHP compatibility, ...

We have more than 280 plugins right now and it's growing everyday:

http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/

Matthew Weier O'Phinney: Plugins for php frameworks

nospam@example.com (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:56:37 +0000

There is some momentum building in the community to start distributing user plugins, and I think in the next few months you'll start seeing something concrete. Keep your eyes on the fw-general mailing list for announcements. There is already one individual accumulating view helpers for redistribution, and another has contacted me about setting up a "forge" type site, which would offer even greater opportunities.

Jonathan Street: Plugins for php frameworks

nospam@example.com (Jonathan Street) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:06:21 +0000

Hi Matthew

Thanks for the reply. I'll freely admit that there is much in the manual I'm not aware of. Every time I go to the site I seem to learn something new.

That being said I'm aware of the front controller plugins and helpers although I haven't used them a lot yet. I'm more familiar with the view helpers. From what I've seen they're more structural than what I had in mind. I doubt structural is the correct term but what I mean is you put in x and you get out y.

Contrasting that with django_monetize if you put in x you might get out y, z, a, b, c, . . . depending on your config options, where the user is coming from, which letters have already been displayed etc.

ZF has a strong foundation on which to build more involved plugins and as you say they could be easily distributed. My point was that such plugins, occupying the middle ground between the structural and the Magento like, aren't being distributed yet.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney: Plugins for php frameworks

nospam@example.com (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:25:35 +0000

There are many, many components in Zend Framework that are pluggable; I suspect you're not reading deeply enough in the manual.

ZF's MVC has a front controller plugin system for global events, action helpers for action controllers (which can also listen to init/pre/postDispatch hooks), view helpers (which are basically plugins for your views), and more. Your example of wanting to add advertisements to a site sounds like a good candidate for either a front controller plugin or a view helper (which would be consumed by your layout script). In either case, the functionality could be easily re-distributed to work with other applications.

Jonathan Street: Grabbing an MSN contact list

nospam@example.com (Jonathan Street) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:24:35 +0000

Hello Lilly

This script only allows you to fetch contacts you already have in your messenger list.

Is there any reason why you can't use the official computer messenger?

Lilly Nestorovic: Grabbing an MSN contact list

nospam@example.com (Lilly Nestorovic) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:42:23 +0000

I want to get on my msn account and add a contact to my list..

Thanks heeps
Lilly Nestorovic
22/09/2008

zuborg: Benchmarks, Site Speed and User Experience

nospam@example.com (zuborg) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:30:18 +0000

I would also recommend this online free tool: http://Site-Perf.com/

It measure loading speed of page and it’s requisites (images/js/css) like browsers do and shows nice detailed chart - so you can easily spot bottlenecks.

Also very useful thing is that this tool is able to verify network quality of your server (packet loss level and ping delays).

Jonathan Street: Grabbing an MSN contact list

nospam@example.com (Jonathan Street) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:07:29 +0000

Hi Tom

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. It looks like you've taken the script down from your site.

If you need any help just let me know.

Jonathan Street: Grabbing a Gmail contact list

nospam@example.com (Jonathan Street) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:04:59 +0000

Hi Thomas

The version I have isn't currently working either.

They do seem to be having issues keeping this updated. As with Chetan in the comment above I would refer you to the official API.

Let me know if things work out for you.

Tom: Grabbing an MSN contact list

nospam@example.com (Tom) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:36:14 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

I just uploaded your script to my server. However, it doesn't work. I don't know where it goes wrong, could you help me out? After entering the email and password, it returns to the usage.php page again without displaying any error message.

script: http://www.vanpeople.com/import/usage.php

server phpinfo:

http://www.vanpeople.com/import/phpinfo.php

Thanks in advance!

Tom