Hybride Anekyu

In Habari, you can actually have your publish post/page include the ability to create a post/page without having to switch in the dashboard menu. (So when you go to the publish > post or publish > page, the two boxes will pop up on that publishing page, and you can alternate between the two without leaving.)

Really simple: go to system > admin > publish, and go modify the div class publish to look like this:
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Using this free module for Zen Cart (Categories Center Box), I wanted to be able to automatically pick up every category I have without having to type in every single one. So, here is a very simple solution for this – I present to you, automatically load up every category you have. To incorporate, you have to modify the following file: /includes/modules/category_center_box.php. After “$top_array = array();”, you can add the following mod:

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This is my first introduction to Cotonti, a content management framework. Am using it for a client site. It’s a bit like Drupal, but it looks a lot easier to manage and to develop in (at least, my initial thoughts).

One thing I noticed is that they have no real easy way to update plugins from version to version (maybe later?) but here’s a quick start guide on how to do it yourself.

You will need FTP/SFTP access (or however you choose to upload the plugins). This may/may not work for all plugins, but I’ve done a couple so far, and it seems to be the general consensus on how to upgrade.

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Using my previous post of assigning array variables in Smarty/Pinnacle Cart, thought someone might have use for the following snippet of code. It allows you to randomly pick/access an array variable, or, when a the page refreshes, a new array variable.

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There’s two ways you can assign array variables that I know of, one using Smarty’s PHP tags and one without. I’ll provide both below:
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Using mod + counter in Smarty, you can automatically loop through all of your products, and add a “/tr” to create a new row. I learned of the “counter” option in Smarty, which lets you actually create a counter automatically rather than assigning a variable and incrementing it through the loop.

In this example, I did mod 5 so every 5 products will create a “/tr” in the table. You can change this to however many products you like. I also use thumbnails instead of full pictures, which you can also change.

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Simply create a block in Pinnacle Cart, and add the following code:

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To just copy a string every time, you can do this:
if(input) { free(input); }
input = strdup(newstr);
That will just free the old string every time, then malloc/strcpy in one call.

Shoot yourself in the foot, help you aim, and pull the trigger.

$origdate = '11/15/2011'; //40862
$regex = "/(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)/i";
#$replace = "$3-$1-$2";
$replace = "$3$1$2";
$findate = preg_replace($regex, $replace, $origdate);

echo "$findate
";

$exceldate = convertToExcelDate($findate);

echo $exceldate."
";

echo convertExcelToNormalDate($exceldate);

function convertToExcelDate($date)
{
$stop = unixtojd(strtotime($date));
$start = gregoriantojd(1, 1, 1900);
return ($stop - $start) + 2;
}
function convertExcelToNormalDate($date) 
{
  $day_difference = 25568; //Day difference between 1 January 1900 to 1 January 1970
  $day_to_seconds = 86400; // no. of seconds in a day
  $unixtime = ($date - $day_difference) * $day_to_seconds;
  return date('Y-m-d', $unixtime);
}

Am working on web2py (python framework) and had an issue with looping through the python code that I saved within the database. So, for anyone who has an issue, here’s how to do the loop to break apart python code – it actually is a combination of a for loop, dictionary, and if statement. (Thanks to stackoverflow.com for helping with this one!) In part 2, I’ll give you the code on how it’ll look really sexy in a table.
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