Posted by Doug Hays on the 19th of May, 2010 at
2:43 pm under iPhone Development. This post has no comments.
I am developing an iPhone app that allows the user to tweet information from the app. For simplicity’s sake, I chose to use the URL method of sending the user off to Twitter to sign in and finish their status update. When I redirected the user to:
http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20World
The status update was dropped after the user logged in. So, I switched to:
http://www.twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20World
which looked fine even on a smaller screen. And, after the user logged in, the status message was retained. But, so was the URL encoding. Instead of “Hello World” the status would have been an unsightly “Hello%20World”.
I finally stumbled onto the fix and it’s an easy one. Just drop the www:
http://twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20World
And, now it works as expected after the user logs in.
Posted by Doug Hays on the 11th of January, 2010 at
11:13 pm under CakePHP. This post has no comments.
In order to call CakePHP from non-CakePHP code, we will copy index.php from /app/webroot and put it into our non-CakePHP codebase as cakephp.php.
Then, we’ll create a function requestCakePHP that requires the cakephp.php file:
function requestCakePHP($url)
{
// Set the url parameter for cakephp
$_GET['url'] = $url;
require_once 'cakephp.php';
// Fire up CakePHP and buffer results
ob_start();
$Dispatcher= new Dispatcher ();
$Dispatcher->dispatch($url);
return ob_get_clean();
}
?>
Then, whenever we need to call for some Cake, we just call requestCake with the URL minus the hostname:
echo requestCakePHP("/webpages/view/2");
In the example above, I have a webpages controller, a view action and am viewing webpage #2.
Posted by Doug Hays on the 9th of September, 2009 at
9:13 am under CSS and Google Maps. This post has 2 comments.
It always feels good to solve a long-standing and puzzling issue. Today’s fix has to do with a Google Maps window that was about 50% taller than it had to be:
After several rounds of setting fixed widths inside the info window’s HTML content, I added the following CSS for .gmapmarker which is the class of the div that wraps all of my info window’s content:
#gmapmarker {
display: block;
max-height: 185px;
}
.gmapmarker {
max-height: 185px;
}
And that did the trick:
Posted by Doug Hays on the 17th of May, 2009 at
11:31 pm under AIR and Flex. This post has 3,192 comments.
There is an issue with AIR application development to which I still have not found an official answer.
I just need to switch between http://localhost and http://fakeproductionurl.com depending on whether I was running in Flex Builder (via adl).
I found all sorts of articles about using conditional compilation (yikes) and reading XML files (I’m too lazy).
This is what I ended up using:
if (NativeApplication.nativeApplication.publisherID != "") {
return "http://fakeproductionurl.com";
}
else {
return "http://localhost";
}
It doesn’t give you the ability to switch between 3+ different environments, but it’s a very easy way to toggle between development / production environments.
Posted by Doug Hays on the 17th of March, 2009 at
4:02 pm under CakePHP. This post has 145 comments.
I needed to test some CakePHP code on a client’s 1and1 server today, so I dropped my CakePHP app in a subdirectory (called agents2) on his site. But, after doing so, I kept getting “Class ‘Configure’ not found”. Luckily, I stumbled upon this blog post over at kushaura.com which saved me.
The core issue was with my root .htaccess file which needed to be changed to:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /agents2/
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
And that did the trick.
Thanks, Kushaura.com!
