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Vodaphone UK MMS Contract Settings

Juo — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:53 +0000

APN: wap.vodafone.co.uk
Username: wap
Password: wap
MMSC: http://mms.vodafone.co.uk/servlets/mms/
MMS Proxy: 212.183.137.012 (note the leading zero in the last octet)
MMS Max Message Size: (blank)
MMS UA Prof URL: (blank)

Parse MusicBrainz XML with jQuery

Juo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:17:22 +0000

For a project I’m working on to help people make posts over at http://www.warez-dnb.com/ i’ve been looking into parsing MusicBrainz, I thought id make a quick post to discuss the challenges and solutions I’ve come up with so far.

<html>
 <head>
 <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
 <script type="text/javascript">
 $(document).ready(function(){
	$.ajax({
		type: "GET",
		url: "http://www.warez-dnb.com/test/getid.php?name=Caspa",
		dataType: "xml",
		success: function(xml) {
			$(xml).find('artist-list').each(function() {

				alert($(this).find("name").text());
			});
		}
	});
 });
 </script>
 </head>
 <body>

 </body>
</html>

This is the index.html file and jQuery code, its pretty simple, I was just testing that I could get a valid connection, then parsing the XML within artist-list and outputting anything that has the XML tag name

One question that might arise from looking at this code is why the url is hosted at warez-dnb, jQuery wont let you import XML from a remote web host, it has to be from the local server, i’ve written an extremely simple PHP function that will query musicbrainz and copy the result it gets to host it locally.

// Set your return content type
header('Content-type: application/xml');

// Website url to open
$daurl = 'http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/artist/?type=xml&name=' . $_GET["name"];

// Get that website's content
$handle = fopen($daurl, "r");

// If there is something, read and return
if ($handle) {
    while (!feof($handle)) {
        $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
        echo $buffer;
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
?>

Terminal Command Mac Create RAR Archives

Juo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:47:59 +0000

If you want to pack your files into RAR’s then use this simple Terminal command

rar a -v100000 MySplitRarArchive

rar a -v100000 MySplitRarArchive

where -vxx is the file size of each of the RAR files in kb’s

Change CNAME in WHM

Juo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:18:05 +0000

I wanted my domain to work with MobileMe, here’s how to do it if you have WHM.

1. Login to WHM.
2. Click on “Edit DNS zone”.
3. Choose the domain name for which you wish to edit CNAME record.
5. Choose record type that is prefixed with “www” with CNAME in the drop down box.
6. Enter Value/Destination in last text box.
7. Click Save button to submit the changes.

SMF 2.0 Custom Button in "Start new topic"

Juo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:25:27 +0000

With the help of SMF forum member Arantor I was able to add a custom button to my Simple Machines Forum 2.0 (Warez-DnB)

To add a custom button you need to make an edit in the Sources/Subs-Editor.php file.

Locate
// The below array makes it dead easy to add images to this control. Add it to the array and everything else is done for you! $context['bbc_tags'] = array(); $context['bbc_tags'][] = array(

You can now see how a button is made up within SMF 2.0 for this example we will use the [img] button.

'img' => array('code' => 'img', 'before' => '[img]', 'after' => '[/img]', 'description' => $txt['image']),

You can see how this is made up, to add your own function (in the case of Warez-DnB a button that will atomically copy in the text [img]http://images.my-domain.com/nocd.png[/img]

I added

'noimg' => array('code' => 'noimg', 'before' => '[img]http://images.warez-dnb.com/nocd.png', 'after' => '[/img]', 'description' => $txt['No picture']),

You’ll also want to add the button within your theme’s images/bbc folder that needs to be the same file name as the function, in this case “noimg.gif”

Simple stuff but handy to know.

Making Leopard 10.5 PHP Ready

Juo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:30:56 +0000

I’m a Ruby on Rails ‘man’, but recently thanks to Warez-DnB I’ve increasingly been exposed to PHP. To make the built in Apache server on Leopard 10.5 PHP Ready follow these simple steps

Edit the httpd.conf file, at /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Edit the file (you can use Pico “sudo pico httpd.conf”) and search for LoadModule php5_module
Uncomment the line that says #LoadModule php5_module (Delete the #)
Save
Stop and start the web server in the control panel

Forbidden 403 error in Leopard 10.5

Juo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:25 +0000

When turning on web sharing on 10.5 I had an error message

Forbidden: 403 Error
You dont have permissions to access localhost/~juo

Strange I thought, the fix is pretty simple though.

Edit the httpd.conf file, at /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Edit the file (you can use Pico “sudo pico httpd.conf”) and search for <Directory />
Change the line that says Deny from all to Allow from all
Save
Stop and start the web server in the control panel

Batch Rename Suffixes or Prefixes Terminal

Juo — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:25:24 +0000

Someone on a forum I regular asked how to batch rename suffixes within the terminal.

So The filenames;
filename.rar
filename2.rar
filename3.rar

Could have a suffix added like this;
filename_[sitename].rar
filename2_[sitename].rar
filename3_[sitename].rar

Suffix

for i in *.rar; do mv “$i” “`basename $i .rar`_[sitename].rar”; done

Prefix

find *.rar -exec mv {} [sitename]_{} \;

PHP function check if a file (or url exists)

Juo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:41:54 +0000

While doing some scripting for Warez-DnB (for a new feature that ill talk more about soon) I needed a script that would check if a file on the server existed.

The PHP code below does this job perfectly, returning a boolean TRUE if the file is found and FALSE if it isn’t .

function url_exists($url) {

// Version 4.x supported

$handle = curl_init($url);

if (false === $handle)

{

return false;

}

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true); // this works

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array(”User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15″) ); // request as if Firefox

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false);

$connectable = curl_exec($handle);

curl_close($handle);

return $connectable;

}

I thought someone else might find it useful.

PHP Image Watermarking

Juo — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:13:45 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted to watermark images on your website, this neat script will be just what you’re looking for.

The Warez-DnB Watermark

The watermark image is held in a separate file, rather than having to actually edit each image with your watermark, save and upload, this script will serve the watermark to the user on the image as and when its requested.

I like this approach to watermarking because no only is it much easier than editing each picture individually it also means with FTP access you still have an original image intact without the watermark. Only users connecting via HTTP will see the watermarked version.

This also allows for ultimate flexibility, if for whatever reason you decide to change the site logo, its as simple as replacing one image file and every image hosted will have the new watermark.

Save this simple PHP script below as “watermark.php”

The final stage is uploading the watermark.php file and image into the directory you want watermarking to take place. In the case of Warez-DnB this is in http://www.warez-dnb.com/grabs/

The final step is an edit to the .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f RewriteRule \.(gif|jpeg|jpg|png)$ watermark.php [QSA,NC]

If you wanted to use the directory /images/ you should now have

/images/watermark.php
/images/watermark.png
/images/.htaccess

Now start uploading some images to /images/ and all is done.

Example http://www.warez-dnb.com/grabs/71a3007301fbd4349e99d85d7afd1c3b.png

Enjoy