http://thereformation.co.nz/amfphp/flashpress-0-9-released/

I’ve moved Flashpress off this blog, to its new home on my NZ based design company site, http://thereformation.co.nz. Over time, all content here will migrate to that location.

Apart from some bug fixes, the main change is the addition of a postComment, userLogin and userLogout methods.

Changes:

• New postComment method
• New getPostTems method (this depreciates getCategories)
• New userLogin method
• New userLogout method
• Addition of customTax property on PostVO object, to handle custom taxonomies on post objects
• Slight changes to TermVO object properties. One additional property added
• Bug fixes for getPost method
• Bug fixes for getUser methods and WpUserVO object
• Adjustments to the search method so it searches custom post types as well as built in

Some thoughts about the postComments method.
This is currently working fine in dev. I’m curious as to how you would like this method exposed. It does write to the DB, so I’m in half a mind to wrap it within the current writeable variables. However, in doing so, you make available the rest of the writeable methods, which might not be that desirable to all users. I’m hesitant to go down this path.

So, what about a new global constant that either allows/ restricts comments? Or I can simply hook into the wordpress options and check what is set within the ‘Discussion’ panel and on a per post basis and allow / restrict comments based off that?

At the moment the method does not validate against users. Any new comments are placed into the moderation queue. A subsequent comment from a commenter that has an approved comment is automatically approved. Which is left up to the wordpress commenting mechanism.

Commenting really requires basic user management. Do you want to see this in FlashPress. Something like a login / logout method? Which I’ve added.

Commenting now hooks into the WordPress options settings, honoring either the blog wide and or individual post commenting settings.

Any other methods that you think should be in? If not, I’ll freeze the API and just clean up the classes documentation, fix bugs and roll out a version 1 release along with some examples. Happy times.

I’ve never gotten around to coming up with another name for what I’m doing.

Anyone got any ideas?

However, sometimes I simply want to trace elements into the console of either Safari or Firefox. This is as simple as using ExternalInterface and a small javascript method that takes a single parameter and writes it to the browsers console, via console.log(). Which can then be inspected via Safari’s debug panel or within Firebug on Firefox. And yes, I realise I could use Flashbug or something similar, but to be honest, I hardly ever use Firefox, hence the desire for something that works in Safari.

Simple example file is attached.

Source files
Simple Flash logging (1258)

To cut a long story short, I had a project come up that needed a javascript full browser background image class, and being the nerd I am, I thought I’d roll my own rather than use any existing jQuery plugins.

I approached it from a Flash standpoint, and tried to replicate the way I use my Flash full browser classes. So rather than operating on a container of image urls as most jQuery full browser plugins do I set this one up to respond to a method call, and load and display each image as requested. The reason for this approach was that I wanted the plugin to only load what images were requested, by me when I wanted them. I’m thinking however of adding in the ‘operate on a container of image urls’ approach to a future iteration.

As this is my first attempt at writing a jQuery plugin I’ve probably made a ton of noob mistakes. Let me know how it works and any bugs you encounter.

Plugin Features

• Set Fade in time
• Center image within browser window on x axis
• Callback methods

An example of loading a single image;.
http://www.noponies.com/dev/jquery-npfullbrowser/static.htm

An example of setting up a slideshow;
http://www.noponies.com/dev/jquery-npfullbrowser/slideshow.htm

Source Files
Here is the relevant source file; jquery Full Browser Background Images (1490)

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Dependencies
Zero