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Random Suprise

Dale — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:44:51 +0000

My girl told me about this;

I had no idea. Cool to get reprinted twice now!

FlashPress Feature Requests?

Dale — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:05:08 +0000

I’m currently re-writing my Flash press PHP service.

I’ve moved it to using the Wordpress api as opposed to working on the database directly.

Most methods are complete, with some no longer needed. For instance, all posts / pages can be returned with a simple ‘getContent” method, but would you rather have seperate, ‘getPost’,’ getPosts’, ‘getPage’, ‘getPages’ etc methods?

What additional features would you like to see in this service? Remember, that the service has access to most of the Wordpress API. There is no point recreating each an everything method, but there might be some methods that are more useful than others. I’ve also added in two methods for calling Wordpress methods beyond what the service supports, one for the Wordpress API and one that handles SQL requests, channeled through the Wordpress API.

Anyway, let me know your thoughts, if you have any.

At the moment, I’ve only supporting ZendAMF but will test out AMFPHP if I get the chance.

Update:
I’ve got it mostly completed. Just have to work on documentation and some examples. I’ve got reading and writing to the Wordpress database for posts / pages and attachments. And reading support for most other Wordpress features.

To get Write support for attachments (image resizing) you will have to require admin.php, but as you have to require a Wordpress file to get access to the Wordpress API anyway, I’m sure thats not a problem for anyone. Let me know if it is.

Update 2:
I’ve finally managed to get AMFPHP up and running again and have the various methods working through the services browser. I added in a new method to get the attachments from a post, which was a requested feature. I’ve also re factored some of the code.

The current available methods are:
callWpMethod – call any available Wordpress method
getUserByLoginName
getUserMetadata
getUserById
getComments
getPostMeta
findTerms (taxonomy method)
getTagCloud
getTerms
getCategories
getCategoriesByPostId
getTagsByPostId
getBlogInfo
getBookmarks
getAttachments
deletePost
getPostOrPageByTitle
getPosts
getPost
countPosts
insertAttachmentAsByteArray
insertAttachment
insertPost

I may rename some, or drop some methods. Note that “posts” is used to mean posts and pages.

Actionscript 3 watermark image class

Dale — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:17:47 +0000

A recent project needed a watermark added to any images that could be downloaded off the site. Originally we used a PHP solution, which worked fine. But I wanted to do it inside of Flash and use the save methods in FP10.

So, I wrote this simple little class to adding a water mark to a display object, and the returning that display object as bitmapdata for say, passing to Adobe’s jpg encoder.

Maybe someone will have some use for it?

Source Files
Here is the relevant source file; Watermark class (603)

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Dependencies
Zero

Jquery Fullbrowser Background Images

Dale — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:43:35 +0000

I seem to be spending more and more time using jQuery than I do Flash, but I think that is just the nature of my current job. I’m actually really enjoying jQuery, it’s a breeze to use and in most instances you can do what you can do in Flash with javascript, only quicker.

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 (765)

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Dependencies
Zero

Actionscript 3 RSS Reader Demo

Dale — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:37:11 +0000

I made this as a simple test for RSS parsing for a job a little while back, and it never was used for anything, so I’ll post it here as it may be of use to someone.

Its a simple RSS parser that uses the RSS and Atom libraries http://code.google.com/p/as3syndicationlib/ to handle parsing its RSS feeds. Although parsing RSS is trivial, I wanted to use a provided Adobe library for the hell of it.

The file is not overly documented and uses my scrolling panel and scrollbar classes to handle scrolling the RSS items.

An example is below.

The Flash plugin is required to view this object.

Source Files
Here is the relevant source file; Rss Reader Demo (1221)

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Dependencies
Zero