May
27th 2010
Retaking of the Echo Isles (Zalazane’s Fall) PTR Screenshots

Posted under World of Warcraft

Here are some screenshots from the retaking of the Echo Isles (as requested here):


























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May
19th 2010
Feedburner email widget for WordPress

Posted under Feedburner Email Widget & Releases & Wordpress

Since I started using WordPress a few weeks ago 1 thing been nagging me. No Feedburner email subscription widget that suits my needs, so decided to make one myself. The result is a simple widget for your themes sidebar that lets your visitors subscribe to you feed in a breeze. Feedburner email widget has been accepted as a plugin bij WordPress yesterday and the first release was pushed today.

The Widget:

Widget control:

For more information please consult the project page.

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May
17th 2010
Flattr Cakephp helper

Posted under Cakephp & Snippets

EDIT: DerEuroMark wrote an excellent replacement for this helper.

After the Flattr MOD for phpBB3 release 2 days ago I wrote this simple flattr cakephp helper (basic cakephp helper knowledge is required) to aid cakephp developers integrate flattr quick and easy into their websites. The helper has only 1 function and is very simple in use.

Basic usage

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<!--?php echo $flattr--->badge(array(
'uid' =&gt; 4080,
'tle' =&gt; 'test',
)); ?&gt;

As you can see this is the bare minimum in options you need to use to get it to work.

  • uid The Flattr User ID as found on the Flattr dashboard (in the example I used mine).
  • tle The title for the link to be submitted.

Since the helper supports the full range of options below are the other options:

  • dsc A description for the link.
  • cat The category for the link. This can be any of the following: text, images, video, audio, software, rest. The default if this option isn’t specified is text.
  • lng The language of the link. Any of the languages on this list and defaults to en_GB.
  • tags Any tags matching the link. This field must be an array!
  • url The URL of the link.
  • btn The badge to use. Currently the only option is compact but if not specified or set to something else it defaults to the standard larger badge

app/views/helpers/flattr.php

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<!--?php<br /--> class FlattrHelper extends Helper {
public $helpers = array('Javascript');
function badge($options=array()) {
App::import('Sanitize');
$vars = '';
$vars .= "var flattr_uid = '" . intval($options['uid']) . "';\r\n";
$vars .= "var flattr_tle = '" . $options['tle'] . "';\r\n";
if(!isset($options['dsc']))
{
$options['dsc'] = '';
}
$vars .= "var flattr_dsc = '" . $options['dsc'] . "';\r\n";
if(!isset($options['cat']))
{
$options['cat'] = 'text';
}
$vars .= "var flattr_cat = '" . $options['cat'] . "';\r\n";
if(!isset($options['lng']))
{
$options['lng'] = 'en_GB';
}
$vars .= "var flattr_lng = '" . $options['lng'] . "';\r\n";
if(isset($options['tags']) &amp;&amp; count($options['tags'])&gt;0)
{
array_walk($options['tags'],'Sanitize::paranoid');
$vars .= "var flattr_tag = '" . implode(', ',$options['tags']) . "';\r\n";
}
if(isset($options['url']) &amp;&amp; ((version_compare(phpversion(), '5.2.0', '&gt;=')  &amp;&amp; function_exists('filter_var')) ? filter_var($options['url'], FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) : true))
{
$vars .= "var flattr_url = '" . $options['url'] . "';\r\n";
}
if(isset($options['btn']) &amp;&amp; $options['btn']=='compact')
{
$vars .= "var flattr_btn = 'compact';\r\n";
}
$code = $this-&gt;Javascript-&gt;codeBlock($vars, array('inline' =&gt; true));
$code .= $this-&gt;Javascript-&gt;link('http://api.flattr.com/button/load.js', array('inline' =&gt; true));
return $code;
}
}

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May
15th 2010
Flattr MOD for phpBB3

Posted under Flattr MOD & phpBB3

A few days ago Flattr send me a beta invite to their website. Checking around their site on the plugin page I noticed there wasn’t a phpBB3 mod for it. Decided to write one and the first RC is read for download. The mod adds badges to the forum on 2 different places viewtopic and viewforum depending on the settings in the ACP.

Viewtopic:

Viewforum:

For more information check the project page.

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May
3rd 2010
phpBB3 Toplist MOD 2.0RC3 released

Posted under phpBB3 & Toplist MOD

After months of work RC3 is finished. It comes with a brand new UMIL installer, 2 extra designs and a new security update warning system. This RC took a whole lot longer then I wanted, heck closing into a year since RC2. Not happy with it but I think this release is worth it below you find all changes, additions and fixes. You can download the mod from the forums in the 2.0RC3 Download topic.

Change log

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April
28th 2010
Cakephp url shorten behavior (0x.tc, bit.ly, is.gd and u.nu)

Posted under Cakephp & Snippets

A while ago I started working on some twitter services and I needed an automatic urlshortner. This first started as a model that would shorten en url and save the result in a table for caching purposes. After a good chat with a friend (beeman) it turned into a behavior with the model only using the behavior to act like it did before. One of the reasons for a behavior was to create a simple interface for the developer without the need to poll the caching model but at the same time be able to use the cache model when the resulting short url wouldn’t be stored anywhere else (like an autmatic tweet). The model currently supports 4 different services (I want to add more in the future tho so any suggestions are welcome): 0x.tc, is.gd, bit.ly and u.nu.

Configuration

mode has 2 possible options ordered (default) or randomize. ordered checks the order in order while randomize uses shuffle to randomize the order.
Example:

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'mode' => 'ordered',

fields is an array with fields that the behavior should send to the services to shorten the url (note that the value in the field MUST be an url). This option has no default value!
Example:

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'fields' => array(
    'short'
),

order is an array with the services listed in the order to use. This option wil only be used is mode is set to ordered else if mode is set to randomize it will grab the default order array and overwrite what you place in order.
Example:

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'order' => array(
                'zero_xtc',
                'bit_ly'
                'u_nu',
                'is_gd',
),

retries number of times it loops through the list of shortners before giving up. Default value is 5.
Example:

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'retries' => 10,

shortners list with shortners and their options. All the shortners have an enable option. Shortners that require an API key also have key option to store the needed API key.
Example:

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            'shortners' => array(
                'bit_ly' => array(
                    'enable' => true,
                    // Go to http://bit.ly/account/your_api_key to get yours
                    'key' => array(
                        'login' => 'YOUR_BITLY_API_LOGIN_HERE',
                        'key' => 'YOUR_BITLY_API_KEY_HERE'
                    ),
                ),
            ),

http_config is an array for the Cakephp HttpSocket class. An example an option is the time out, you can find all possible at the 1.2 API (or 1.3 ofcourse ;) ). The default configuration is shown in the example below.
Example:

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            'http_config' => array(
                            'timeout' => 10
            ),

http_headers is an array for additional HTTP headers like the User-Agent. The default configuration is shown in the example below.
Example:

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            'http_headers' => array(
                            'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1'
            ),

Files

Following are the mode and behavior. The model also shows the basic configuration for the behavior tell it what field in the database to shorten urls for. It also

app/models/shorturl.php

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<?php
class Shorturl extends AppModel {
    public $actsAs = array(
        'Shorturl' => array(
            'fields' => array(
                'short'
            ),
        ),
    );
    public function shorten($long_url) {
        $url = $this->findByLong($long_url);
        if(!$url) {
            $data = array();
            $data['long'] = $long_url;
            $data['short'] = $long_url;
            $this->create();
            $this->save($data);
            $url = $this->findByLong($long_url);
        }
        return $url['Shorturl']['short'];
    }
}

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CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `shorturls` (
  `id` INT(32) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `long` VARCHAR(1024) NOT NULL,
  `short` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM  AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

app/models/behaviors/shorturl.php

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<?php
class ShorturlBehavior extends ModelBehavior {
    private $defaults = array(
            'fields' => array(),
            'shortners' => array(
                            'zero_xtc' => array(
                                            'enable' => true,
                            ),
                            'is_gd' => array(
                                            'enable' => true,
                            ),
                            'bit_ly' => array(
                                            'enable' => true,
                                            // Go to http://bit.ly/account/your_api_key to get yours
                                            'key' => array(
                                                            'login' => '',
                                                            'key' => ''
                                            ),
                            ),
                            'u_nu' => array(
                                            'enable' => true,
                            ),
            ),
            'order' => array(
                            'zero_xtc',
                            'is_gd',
                            'bit_ly',
                            'u_nu',
            ),
            'http_config' => array(
                            'timeout' => 10
            ),
            'http_headers' => array(
                            'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1'
            ),
            'retries' => 5,
            'mode' => 'ordered',
    );
    public $settings = array();
    public function setup(&$model,$config = array()) {
        $this->settings[$model->alias] = $this->defaults;
        $this->settings[$model->alias] = $this->array_merge_recursive_distinct($this->settings[$model->alias],(array) $config);
    }
    public function beforeSave(&$model) {
        if(isset($this->settings[$model->alias]['fields'])) {
            foreach($this->settings[$model->alias]['fields'] as $void => $field) {
                if(isset($model->data[$model->alias][$field]) && !empty($model->data[$model->alias][$field]) && ((version_compare(phpversion(), '5.2.0', '>=') && function_exists('filter_var')) ? filter_var($model->data[$model->alias][$field], FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) : true)) {
                    $model->data[$model->alias][$field] = $this->shorten($model,$model->data[$model->alias][$field]);
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
    private function shorten(&$model,$long_url) {
        App::import('Core', 'Set');
        App::import('Core', 'Xml');
        App::import('Core', 'HttpSocket');
        if($this->settings[$model->alias]['mode']=='randomize') {
            $this->settings[$model->alias]['order'] = $this->defaults['order'];
            shuffle($this->settings[$model->alias]['order']);
        }
        for($j=0;$j<($this->settings[$model->alias]['retries'] + 1);$j++) {
            foreach($this->settings[$model->alias]['order'] as $shortner) {
                if($this->settings[$model->alias]['shortners'][$shortner]['enable']) {
                    $short_url = $this->{$shortner}($model,$long_url);
                    if($short_url && !empty($short_url) && !is_null($short_url) && ((version_compare(phpversion(), '5.2.0', '>=') && function_exists('filter_var')) ? filter_var($short_url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) : true)) {
                        return $short_url;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return $long_url;
    }

    private function zero_xtc(&$model,$long_url) {
        $this->Http = new HttpSocket($this->settings[$model->alias]['http_config']);
        $request = 'http://0x.tc/x?go=' . rawurlencode($long_url) . '&t=' . time();
        $response = $this->Http->get(
                $request,
                array(),
                array('header' => $this->settings[$model->alias]['http_headers'])
        );
        $response = Set::reverse(new Xml($response));
        if(is_array($response['Taken']['xUrl'])) {
            return false;
        }
        elseif(substr($response['Taken']['xUrl'], 0, 4) == 'http') {
            return $response['Taken']['xUrl'];
        }
        else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    private function is_gd(&$model,$long_url) {
        $this->Http = new HttpSocket($this->settings[$model->alias]['http_config']);
        $request = 'http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=' . urlencode($long_url);
        $response = $this->Http->get(
                $request,
                array(),
                array('header' => $this->settings[$model->alias]['http_headers'])
        );
        if (substr($request, 0, 4) == 'http') {
            return $response;
        }
        else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    private function bit_ly(&$model,$long_url) {
        if(isset($this->settings[$model->alias]['shortners']['bit_ly']['key']['login']) && !empty($this->settings[$model->alias]['shortners']['bit_ly']['key']['login']) && isset($this->settings[$model->alias]['shortners']['bit_ly']['key']['key']) && !empty($this->settings[$model->alias]['shortners']['bit_ly']['key']['key'])) {
            $this->Http = new HttpSocket($this->settings[$model->alias]['http_config']);
            $request = 'http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl=' . urlencode($long_url) . '&login=' . $this->settings[$model->alias]['shortners']['bit_ly']['key']['login'] . '&apiKey=' . $this->settings[$model->alias]['shortners']['bit_ly']['key']['key'];
            $response = $this->Http->get(
                    $request,
                    array(),
                    array('header' => $this->settings[$model->alias]['http_headers'])
            );
            $response = json_decode($response);
            if ($response->errorCode==0 && $response->statusCode=='OK' && isset($response->results->{$long_url}->shortUrl)) {
                return $response->results->{$long_url}->shortUrl;
            }
            else {
                return false;
            }
        }
        else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    private function u_nu(&$model,$long_url) {
        $this->Http = new HttpSocket($this->settings[$model->alias]['http_config']);
        $request = 'http://u.nu/unu-api-simple?url=' . urlencode($long_url);
        $response = $this->Http->get(
                $request,
                array(),
                array('header' => $this->settings[$model->alias]['http_headers'])
        );
        if (substr($request, 0, 4) == 'http') {
            return $response;
        }
        else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // Taken from: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge-recursive.php#96201
    /**
     * Merges any number of arrays / parameters recursively, replacing
     * entries with string keys with values from latter arrays.
     * If the entry or the next value to be assigned is an array, then it
     * automagically treats both arguments as an array.
     * Numeric entries are appended, not replaced, but only if they are
     * unique
     *
     * calling: result = array_merge_recursive_distinct(a1, a2, ... aN)
     **/

    private function array_merge_recursive_distinct () {
        $arrays = func_get_args();
        $base = array_shift($arrays);
        if(!is_array($base)) $base = empty($base) ? array() : array($base);
        foreach($arrays as $append) {
            if(!is_array($append)) $append = array($append);
            foreach($append as $key => $value) {
                if(!array_key_exists($key, $base) && !is_numeric($key)) {
                    $base[$key] = $append[$key];
                    continue;
                }
                if(is_array($value) || (isset($base[$key]) && is_array($base[$key]))) {
                    $base[$key] = $this->array_merge_recursive_distinct($base[$key], $append[$key]);
                } else if(is_numeric($key)) {
                    if(!in_array($value, $base)) $base[] = $value;
                } else {
                    $base[$key] = $value;
                }
            }
        }
        return $base;
    }
}

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April
28th 2010
New dawn, new day, a ported blog

Posted under Site News

Last night I ported all my 239 blog posts to wordpress. One reason for this dicision is that I want to have more time to spend on bAdaptive, WyriMaps.net, my phpBB3 mods and my other projects. Also having to develope a blog slowed those projects down and I went for a fully function blog application to speed it up and be able to publish new posts, articles and thougths easy and fast. The day before yesterday I already ported the WyriMaps.net blog for the same reason. Comments on this blog should follow fast :) . Stay tuned for more articles, project updates and more!

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October
12th 2009
phpBB3 Google Wave BBCode

Posted under Uncategorized

With Google Wave mods created for most major open source project but none for phpBB I decided to start one. An easy start with a wave bbcode to embed a wave inside a post/PM. The BBCode part of the mod has almost been finished and needs a few more tweaks and a button in the post window but it can be used to embed waves. You need to be login wave to see the actual wave altho I made it public by adding public@a.gwave.com. So I made this screencast with the help of beeman.The screencast shows the creation of a wave in Google Wave, then the embedding of the wave using the [gwave][/gwave] bbcode tag.

Other features I'm going to build is adding a wave on a profile field and adding wave using template tags anywhere on the board. Altho those 2 are still in the concept phase I'm sure they will be as easy to implement as the bbcode.

WyriHaximus

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August
31st 2009
World of Warcraft Panorama’s try out: Thunderfall

Posted under World of Warcraft

Between all the coding, testing and sleeping I like to do something graphic once in a while. This time I tried out some idea's for panorama's. I went for Thunderfall in World of Warcraft. Below is the result of this.

Thunderfall

Now I have this idea spinning in my mind to create mare of these (higher detail and worked out better tho since this once contains some glitches) and add them to WyriMaps.net. What places should I do before Cataclysm strikes. Lemme know,

WyriHaximus

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August
22nd 2009
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm logo’s

Posted under World of Warcraft

Just like I did with the WoW Trans logo here is the new logo for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Original Size:

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Logo (Click for real size)

1024x 441:

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Logo (Click for real size)

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