Running phing from its phar

By Cohen | Published: April 3, 2012

As of phing 2.4.10 you can download phing as a phar file, perfect for using phing on servers with PHP > 5.3 but without access to PEAR. Quite new to phar files I struggled to get started, but it turns out its actually really easy! Failing to find any resources online myself, hopefully this will help somebody else.
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RB Internal Links v2.0.14

By Cohen | Published: May 7, 2011

A mini maintenance release addressing a shortfall in the wordpress shortcode parser.

Unfortunately the wordpress shortcode API can’t successfully process the following:

[intlink id="1" /]
Normal content
[intlink id="2"]Link content[/intlink]

OR

[intlink id="1"][/intlink]
Normal content
[intlink id="2"]Link content[/intlink]

To circumvent this, where users require no link text (to display the post title), the plugin will now accept the string “{{empty}}” as the link content like so:

[intlink id="1"]{{empty}}[/intlink]
Normal content
[intlink id="2"]Link content[/intlink]

I submitted a bug 2 years ago [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9264], unfortunately it remains unfixed at the date of this post.

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jQuery find next element in DOM by selector

By Cohen | Published: April 1, 2011

If you need to find the next occurrence of an element within the DOM, but aren’t sure where it is (i.e. you can’t just use $.next) I wrote a jQuery plugin that will traverse through the DOM from the current element til it hits either the ‘body’ tag or a parent you specify.

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(function( $ ){
    $.fn.nextElementInDom = function(selector, options) {
        var defaults = { stopAt : 'body' };
        options = $.extend(defaults, options);
 
        var parent = $(this).parent();
        var found = parent.find(selector);
 
        switch(true){
            case (found.length > 0):
                return found;
            case (parent.length === 0 || parent.is(options.stopAt)):
                return $([]);
            default:
                return parent.nextElementInDom(selector);
        }
    };
})( jQuery );

Download it here: jquery.nextElementInDom.js

And here is how you would use it:

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var elementNeeded = $('.firstElement').nextElementInDom('.secondElement');

Where your HTML might look like this:

<html>
  <body>
    <div>
      <span class="firstElement">Our first element</span>
    </div>
 
    <ul>
      <li>
        <span class="secondElement">Second element is in a different place</span>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>
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php-ssrs v0.1

By Cohen | Published: March 11, 2011

A beta release of php-ssrs, a PHP SOAP client for Sql Reporting Services, that I helped write with Ideal Websites is now available for download.

Grab a copy of it from the Google Code project page here: php-ssrs

The QuickStart guide should be all you need to get going, there are also more detailed samples available in the download. Getting a rendered report is made real easy, just take a look at the sample below:

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$options = array(
    'username' => 'testing',
    'password' => 'password'
);
 
$ssrs = new SSRS_Report('http://localhost/reportserver/', $options);
$result = $ssrs->loadReport('/Reports/Reference_Report');
 
$ssrs->setSessionId($result->executionInfo->ExecutionID);
$ssrs->setExecutionParameters(new SSRS_Object_ExecutionParameters($result->executionInfo->Parameters));
 
$output = $ssrs->render('HTML4.0'); // PDF | XML | CSV
echo $output;
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RB Internal Links v2.0.13

By Cohen | Published: March 8, 2011

v2.0.13 (08/03/2011)

  • Added support for custom post types
  • WIKI style support for posts that don’t exist when logged in as an admin
  • Class of “missingLink” applied to anchor of links with no post/page
  • Show posts with a status of ‘post’, ‘draft’, ‘pending’ or ‘future’ in UI list
  • Italian translation file
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