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Authenticate users with records in a MySQL table
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This class can be used to authenticate users with records in a MySQL table.
It can check if an user is already authenticated. If not, it can check the user name and password in a MySQL database table.
The class sets session variables if the user authenticates successfully.
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Import contacts from Web mail accounts
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This class can be used to import contacts from Web mail accounts.
It generates links to pages where the user can authenticate on either Gmail, Hotmail, MSN Windows Live or Yahoo.
Once the user authenticates, the user returns to a page with a script that calls the class so it receives request values that can be used to retrieve the contacts from the Web mail accounts using their Web service APIs.
You will need to create applications for Yahoo and Windows Live to obtain API keys and secret phrases. For Yahoo you need to get your application access to read address books in applications settings.
A new PDF converter has been added to the Free PDF Converters, Editors and Printer Drivers
page. CC PDF installs itself on your system as a pseudo-printer driver. When you print a document from any program, you can select that printer,
and it will generate a PDF file for you (instead of sending the document to your printer), thus allowing you to create PDF files from any program that can print. Like all the other PDF converters on the page, it is free.
I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release:
The first thing you’ll notice is that visually 2.8 feels a lot like 2.7, just with some minor tweaks here and there. However once you’ll dig in you’ll begin to appreciate the changes.
Major New Improvements
First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.
The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.
If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.
If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.
Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.
And Even More
You can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex. The list is exhausting!
The Future
We’re already thinking hard about the next versions, 2.9 and 3.0. Keep an eye out for improved media handling, better dependency checking, versioning of templates and themes, and of course the fabled merging of WordPress and MU announced at WordCamp San Francisco two weeks ago.
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Get tax rate information from DOTS FastTax
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This class can be used to get tax rate information from Service Objects DOTS FastTax.
It accesses the Service Objects DOTS FastTax Web service API server and sends HTTP SOAP requests to retrieve tax rate information for a given jurisdiction in the United States or Canada given its postal code.
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Track conversation about URLs with uberVU service
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This class can be used to track conversation about URLs with uberVU service.
It can access the uberVU Web service API server and send requests to execute several types of operations.
Currently it can add one or more URLs to be tracked and also get information about a previously added URL.
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Display image galleries optimized for the iPhone
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This package can be used to display image galleries optimized for the iPhone.
It can read the images from a given server directory, generate thumbnails and slide images, and generate Javascript to retrive images from the server, return the image descriptions.
This package works in conjuction with a the Jaipho Javascript library which is based on the original iPhone Photos application.
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Rename multiple files according to rules
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This class can be used to rename multiple files according to rules.
It can traverse a given directory and rename files that match given patterns.
The files are renamed according to rules that define whether the new names should include sequence numbers, text to be stripped from the original names, append and prepend text, rename the file name extension, change the case of name words, convert between spaces, dots and underscores, and trim the resulting name.
Here is an example for a simple way of uploading an image and then create a thumbnail image automatically. This PHP script does the following:
- it uploads the image to a temporary location,
- then it copies the uploaded image to a permanent location,
- the script then creates a smaller thumbnail image and saves this to a special thumbnail image location
This PHP script is set up only to allow the upload of JPG formatted images. But with some PHP knowledge you will be able to change this.
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