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Drupal how to query a non default db

Aug 19th, 2013 (updated Aug 20th, 2013)

Sometimes it's necessary to get data from databases other than the default. Here's an example of how I do a simple SELECT query on the non-default database named 'MyOtherDb'.

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PHP FTP classes for connecting to and getting a file list from a Windows FTP server

Aug 13th, 2013 (updated Aug 14th, 2013)

Here's a couple of classes that I wrote to connect and retrieve an array of file paths, names, and sizes from a Windows FTP server. There is high npath/cyclomatic complexity in getFileList() but it is left that way for easy reading of code and for performance, as this method may run (recursively) thousands or more times per request, depending on how many files and directories exist.

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Drupal create custom search with Views

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

create view
add page display
set path
add filter

search: search terms
expose the filter if you want

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Drupal PHP create node programmatically

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

Drupal 7

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mp4box on Mac

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

To install mp4box on Mac, this bash script can be used.

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Mp4box interleave mp4 for flash

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

# get MP4Box for Mac here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MP4Box
/Applications/MP4Box -inter 500 ~/movies/mymovie.m4v

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jQuery inherited links

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

This is useful when you need to make a wrapper clickable when there's a link inside it. Super handy for mobile work. Thanks to Jeremy Tredway for this snippet. Ask him if he has anything better as this code was made in 2012.

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Wordpress redirect post type content

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

<?php
/**
 * Redirect to careers page if visiting a single career post 
 */
function loox_career_redirect() {
  if ('loox_career' == get_post_type()) {
    wp_redirect(home_url() . '/careers/');
  }
}
 
add_action('template_redirect', 'loox_career_redirect');
 
?>

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Wordpress filters and shortcodes

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

<?php
remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
echo apply_filters('the_content',do_shortcode('[add_to_cart='.$product_id.']'));
?>

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Wordpress PHP store processed content in variable

Nov 19th, 2012 (updated Jul 31st, 2013)

<?php
$content = apply_filters('the_content',$post->post_content);
?>

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