Easy HTML formatted eMails with PHP

DrPunchman — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:34:38 +0000

This is a pretty straight forward bit-o-code, that takes an HTML file and emails it.

I have a folder with 2 files in it:
1. the PHP MAILER
2. the HTML PAGE TO MAIL

When I goto and view the PHP page, it finds the HTML page, loads it up, and mails it out.
This way, I can pre-view the HTML by its self, and never have to break out each line again (as you do with the regular way of sending an php email).

There was a problem sending the email.';
}
?>

wordpress + php = ZORK!

DrPunchman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:45:48 +0000

OK, so something is obviously wrong RIGHT with my date/time stamps on my blog. I’ve converted to the Zork calendar. Why? Because Zork rocks! On the following page is my the quickie Zork date mod. I know this is supposed to be done in the themes pannel… but have you looked at this theme in detail? It is put together with Voodoo and monkey parts. My code follows.

get_month($arcresult->month), $arcresult->year);
	$text = dr_Month ( $arcresult->month ) ." ". $arcresult->year;

	plugin calendar near line 1943
	$output .= ''. drDate( date(get_option('date_format'),mktime($day_count*24,0,0,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))) ).'';

*/

function drDate( $the_date_arr )
{
	//  n w jS Y
	echo "";

	$_drdate = explode( " ", $the_date_arr );

	// month
	$drMonth = dr_Month( $_drdate[ 0 ] );

	// day
	$drDay = dr_Day( $_drdate[ 1 ] );

	// date
	$drDate = $_drdate[ 2 ];

	// year
	$drYear = $_drdate[ 3 ];

	$myNewDate = $drDay ." the ". $drDate ." of ". $drMonth .", of the year ". $drYear;

	return( $myNewDate );

}

function drDateJr( $the_date_arr )
{
	$_drdate = explode( " ", $the_date_arr );

	// month
	$drMonth = dr_Month( $_drdate[ 0 ] );

	// day
	$drDay = dr_Day( $_drdate[ 1 ] );

	// date
	$drDate = $_drdate[ 2 ];

	// year
	$drYear = $_drdate[ 3 ];

	$myNewDate = $drDate ." of ". $drMonth .", in ". $drYear;

	return( $myNewDate );
}

// day --------------
function dr_Day( $ddd )
{

	switch( $ddd )
	{
		case( '0' ):
			$drDay = "Sand Day";
			break;
		case( '1' ):
			$drDay = "Mud Day";
			break;
		case( '2' ):
			$drDay = "Grues Day";
			break;
		case( '3' ):
			$drDay = "Wands Day";
			break;
		case( '4' ):
			$drDay = "Birthday";
			break;
		case( '5' ):
			$drDay = "Frob Day";
			break;
		case( '6' ):
			$drDay = "Star Day";
			break;
	}

	return( $drDay );
}

// month --------------
function dr_MonthName ( $mmm, $boo = false )
{

	switch( substr( strtolower( $mmm ), 0, 3 ) )
	{
		case( 'jan' ):
			$drMonth = "Estuary";
			break;
		case( 'feb' ):
			$drMonth = "Fidooshiary";
			break;
		case( 'mar' ):
			$drMonth = "Arch";
			break;
		case( 'apr' ):
			$drMonth = "Oracle";
			break;
		case( 'may' ):
			$drMonth = "Mage";
			break;
		case( 'jun' ):
			$drMonth = "Jam";
			break;
		case( 'jul' ):
			$drMonth = "Jelly";
			break;
		case( 'aug' ):
			$drMonth = "Augur";
			break;
		case( 'sep' ):
			$drMonth = "Suspendur";
			break;
		case( 'oct' ):
			$drMonth = "Ottobur";
			break;
		case( 'nov' ):
			$drMonth = "Mumberbur";
			break;
		case( 'dec' ):
			$drMonth = "Dismembur";
			break;
	}	

	if( $boo ) $drMonth = substr( $drMonth, 0, 3 );

	return( $drMonth );
}

function dr_Month ( $mmm, $boo = false )
{

	switch( $mmm )
	{
		case( '1' ):
			$drMonth = "Estuary";
			break;
		case( '2' ):
			$drMonth = "Fidooshiary";
			break;
		case( '3' ):
			$drMonth = "Arch";
			break;
		case( '4' ):
			$drMonth = "Oracle";
			break;
		case( '5' ):
			$drMonth = "Mage";
			break;
		case( '6' ):
			$drMonth = "Jam";
			break;
		case( '7' ):
			$drMonth = "Jelly";
			break;
		case( '8' ):
			$drMonth = "Augur";
			break;
		case( '9' ):
			$drMonth = "Suspendur";
			break;
		case( '10' ):
			$drMonth = "Ottobur";
			break;
		case( '11' ):
			$drMonth = "Mumberbur";
			break;
		case( '12' ):
			$drMonth = "Dismembur";
			break;
	}	

	if( $boo ) $drMonth = substr( $drMonth, 0, 3 );

	return( $drMonth );
}

?>

I want to point out 2 things:

This is close but NOT a wholy faithful conversion to the Zork Calendar [ read more here ] (Not the most accurate Zork Calendar I have found, just the best one I found tonight)
Zork is awesome. You can play it here: http://thcnet.net/zork/

Fixes for new WordPress update!

Fixes were made to the “general-template.php” file.

/* translators: Calendar caption: 1: month name, 2: 4-digit year */
	$calendar_caption = _x('%1$s %2$s', 'calendar caption');
	$calendar_output = '';

	$myweek = array();

	for ( $wdcount=0; $wdcount<=6; $wdcount++ ) {
		$myweek[] = $wp_locale->get_weekday(($wdcount+$week_begins)%7);
	}

	foreach ( $myweek as $wd ) {
		$day_name = (true == $initial) ? $wp_locale->get_weekday_initial($wd) : $wp_locale->get_weekday_abbrev($wd);
		$wd = esc_attr($wd);
		$calendar_output .= "\n\t\t";
	}

	$calendar_output .= '
	';

	if ( $previous ) {
		$calendar_output .= "\n\t\t".'';
	} else {
		$calendar_output .= "\n\t\t".'';
	}

	$calendar_output .= "\n\t\t".'';

	if ( $next ) {
		$calendar_output .= "\n\t\t".'';
	} else {
		$calendar_output .= "\n\t\t".'';
	}

	$calendar_output .= '
	';

Social Hub
DrPunchman — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:22:39 +0000
EXPLORE: Grock our mad fine peeps, yo!
Just finished the TurboTax Social Hub. (Well ok, I finished a while ago, but it just launched…).

It is a portal into the crazy social aspect of TurboTax’s marketing. It might seem silly at first, but once you think about it, it’s actually kinda brilliant. Its (Taxes) something everyone needs to deal with, and we all fear it on some primal level, and Intuit is using our emotional bond with the event to turn it into a social thing. Kinda turning it on it’s ear. It’s no wonder this stuff becomes so popular.

LEARN: Dork out with TurboTax! 
CONNECT: Chances are that you know someone you know who knows TurboTax!
Take the Red Pill or the Blue Pill? Ok, so there are three Blue Pills. But you can't say I didn't give you options.


AS3 + PHP = FlashVars
DrPunchman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:21:45 +0000
Lesson learned on a previous project: USE PHP TO SET FLASHVARS OF DOMAIN URL! Web security is tightening up, and flash web apps want to be more universal, this means my little widget might be on 300 different sites but needs to reference the correct files on each site. The key to this is setting the site’s URL as a FlashVar and letting flash actually know where it is.
The PHP
// http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php
$rootwww = 'http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/';

Now the AS3
import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
// call the flash var as a property of an object
var _rootwww:String = getFlashVars().rootwww;
if( _rootwww == null ) _rootwww = "http://www.yourSiteHere.com";
// get the flash var object
private function getFlashVars():Object
{
	var obj:Object = new Object();
	try {
		obj = Object( LoaderInfo( this.loaderInfo ).parameters );
	} catch( e:Error ) {
		trace( e.message );
		obj.rootwww = null;
	}
	return obj;
}



PHP: Proxy that shit!
DrPunchman — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:22:59 +0000
I have a new best friend in town and his name is Proxy.
Basically this is a quick and easy work around for flash’s STUPID security issues.

You simply send your link (to a file on a different server) to the proxy(on your server) and flash thinks that those files are actually local files!


and in ActionScript 2 you would call it like:
_xml.load( PROXY_URL + "?url=" + RSS_URL );



	' . sprintf($calendar_caption, dr_MonthName( $wp_locale->get_month($thismonth) ), date('Y', $unixmonth)) . '
	
	$day_name
	

	
	« ' . dr_MonthName( $wp_locale->get_month_abbrev($wp_locale->get_month($previous->month)), true ) . '     ' . dr_MonthName( $wp_locale->get_month_abbrev($wp_locale->get_month($next->month)), true) . ' »

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Easy HTML formatted eMails with PHP

wordpress + php = ZORK!

Fixes for new WordPress update!

Social Hub

AS3 + PHP = FlashVars

PHP: Proxy that shit!