(function( $ ){
    function stringToSlug(str){
      str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); // trim
      str = str.toLowerCase();

      // remove accents, swap ñ for n, etc
      var from = "àáäâèéëêìíïîòóöôùúüûñç·_,:;";
      var to   = "aaaaeeeeiiiioooouuuunc-----";
      for (var i=0, l=from.length ; i<l ; i++) {
        str = str.replace(new RegExp(from.charAt(i), 'g'), to.charAt(i));
      }

      str = str.replace(/[^a-z0-9 -/]/g, '') // remove invalid chars
        .replace(/\s+/g, '-') // collapse whitespace and replace by -
        .replace(/-+/g, '-'); // collapse dashes

      return str;
    }

    $.fn.slug = function(){
        var inputField = this;
        $(this).closest('form').submit(function(){
            $(inputField).val(stringToSlug($(inputField).val()));
            return true;
        });
        $(this).blur(function(){
            $(this).val(stringToSlug($(this).val()));
        });
    }
})( jQuery );

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('input.slug').slug();
});

/**
* Adds Nodes to an Existing XML Writer Object
*
* @param XMLWriter $xml
* @param string $nodeName
* @param string | array | stdObject $nodeValue
*/
function _addNodeToXML(&$xml,$nodeName,$nodeValue){
if(is_array($nodeValue)){
$xml->startElement($nodeName);
foreach($nodeValue as $nodeValueKey => $nodeValueValue){
_addNodeToXML($xml, $nodeValueKey, $nodeValueValue);
}
$xml->endElement();
}elseif(is_a($nodeValue,”stdClass”)){
$xml->startElement(“item”);
foreach($nodeValue as $nodeValueKey => $nodeValueValue){
_addNodeToXML($xml, $nodeValueKey, $nodeValueValue);
}
$xml->endElement();
}else{
$xml->writeElement($nodeName,$nodeValue);
}
}

/**

* Converts an Object of stdClass to an XML (XMLWriter) “Object”
*
* @param stdClass|array $stdClass
* @return s
*/
function _stdClassToXML($stdClass){
$xml = new XMLWriter();
$xml->openMemory();

_addNodeToXML($xml,”root”,$stdClass);
return $xml->outputMemory();
}

class Zend_View_Helper_Images
{
private $_name;
private $_source;
static private $_webpath;
static private $_fspath;

public function __construct() {
if(null == $this->_fspath){
$this->_fspath = str_replace('application','',APPLICATION_PATH)."public/images/tumbs/";
$this->_webpath = "/images/thumbs/";
}
}

public function scale($x = false,$y = false)
{

if(!file_exists($this->_fspath.'x'.$x.'y'.$y.$this->_name)){
$infos = getimagesize($this->_source);

switch($infos['mime']) {
case "image/pjpeg":
case "image/jpeg":
case "image/jpg":
$image=imagecreatefromjpeg($this->_source);
break;
case "image/gif":
$image=imagecreatefromgif($this->_source);
break;
case "image/png":
case "image/x-png":
$image=imagecreatefrompng($this->_source);
break;
}
$newImage = imagecreatetruecolor($x,$y);
imagecopyresampled($newImage,$image,0,0,0,0,$x,$y,$infos[0],$infos[1]);

imagejpeg($newImage,$this->_fspath.'x'.$x.'y'.$y.$this->_name);
imagedestroy($newImage);
}

return $this->_webpath.'x'.$x.'y'.$y.$this->_name;

}

public function images($imageurl)
{
$this->_source = $imageurl;
preg_match('#[^/]+\.[\w]+$#',$imageurl,$match);
$this->_name = $match[0];
return $this;
}
}

in that cas the Implementation looks like:

<img src="<?= $this->images($this->some_image_url)->scale(150,200) ?>" alt=""/>

Or if you’ve no Idea what I’m talking about check out zootool.

1. It does not convert in to numeric entities so you’ll have problems when parsing as XML

2. It does NOT cover all characters that are like to show up.

So, to address this Issues, first for Point 1:

function _convertAlphaEntitysToNumericEntitys($entity){
return '&#'.ord(html_entity_decode($entity[0])).';';
}
$content = preg_replace_callback('/&([\w\d]+);/i','_convertAlphaEntitysToNumericEntitys',$content);

Here all “normal” entities are taken (which you already have, using  htmlentities) and replaced by their numeric counterparts so they can be parsed as XML, now that leaves us with our second Problem, the Fact that only a small range of characters is covered in the first Place:

function _convertAsciOver127toNumericEntitys($entity){
if(($asciCode = ord($entity[0])) > 127){
return '&#'.$asciCode.';';
}else{
return $entity[0];
}
}
$content = preg_replace_callback('/[^\w\d ]/i','_convertAsciOver127toNumericEntitys'), $content);

And there you go, the resulting Text should have no entitie Problems in XML.

Geolocation API is by now implementet in most of the browsers besides IE, of course, so its as usual a nice-to-have thing for desktop devices, of course for mobile, its a completly different matter. But if you wanna know more about it, read it up, there are plenty of rescources avaible on the net.

Yahoos Place finder is, in there own words “Yahoo! PlaceFinder is a geocoding Web service that helps developers make their applications location-aware by converting street addresses or place names into geographic coordinates (and vice versa).” And yeah, besides the marketing spin, that is what it does, you provide latitude and latitude and Placefinder tells you where the hell you are.

I made a short example you can check it out here.

The Code is as slim as they come:
PHP:

$search = 'http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?q='.$_POST['lat'].',+'.$_POST['lon'].'&gflags=R&appid=[yourappidhere]';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($search,'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
echo $xml->asXML();

HTML/JS

<h1>Utilizing HTML5 Geolocation API and Yahoo! PlaceFinder Example</h1>
<div>You are currently in <strong> </strong> - <strong> </strong>, well to be more precisely in <strong> </strong> and your ZIP is <strong> </strong>'ish</div>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function() {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
function(position){
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '/sandbox/utilizing-html5-geolocation-api-and-yahoo-placefinder-example.php',
dataTyoe: 'xml',
data: ({
lat: position.coords.latitude,
lon: position.coords.longitude
}),
success: function(xml){
$('#city').html($(xml).find('city').text());
$('#country').html($(xml).find('country').text());
$('#neighborhood').html($(xml).find('neighborhood').text());
$('#plz').html($(xml).find('uzip').text());
}
});
}
);
});
// ]]></script>

So you see, with literally no Work whatsoever you can get quite some Information, whatever you with them, is of course up to you, but remember if the user provides the Information or not is up to him!

$this->_httpClient->setConfig(array('timeout' => '60'));

(if you like me has an own class that extends from Zend_XmlRpc_Client to do your bidding). O

r must supply a full new, configured HTTP Client like:

$httpClient = new Zend_Http_Client;
$httpClient->setConfig(array('timeout' => '60'));
$xmlrpcClient = new Zend_XmlRpc_Client('http://www.foobar.com/service',$httpClient);

(or something along those lines)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function field_file_load() in /home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/filefield/filefield_field.inc on line 97

The Fix was to add the Line:
module_load_include(‘inc’, ‘filefield’, ‘field_file’);

In File:
/home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/filefield/filefield_field.inc at line 96

UPDATE

Also got the Error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function field_file_save() in /home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/filefield/filefield_field.inc on line 130

Same game,

The Fix was to add the Line:
module_load_include(‘inc’, ‘filefield’, ‘field_file’);

In File:
/home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/filefield/filefield_field.inc at line 129

Update

This is getting ridicules -.-

Fatal error: Call to undefined function field_file_load() in /home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/filefield/filefield_widget.inc on line 163

The Fix was to add the Line:
module_load_include(‘inc’, ‘filefield’, ‘field_file’);

In File:
/home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/filefield/filefield_widget.inc on line 162

Update

yet another one ‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function filefield_widget_value()’

In File:
/home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/imagefield/imagefield_widget.inc on line 209

add module_load_include(‘inc’, ‘filefield’, ‘filefield_widget’);

Ah, hopfefully the last one: Call to undefined function imagefield_file_admin_thumb_path()

in File:
/home/johannes/workspace/drupal/sites/all/modules/imagefield/imagefield.module on line 373

add module_load_include(‘inc’, ‘imagefield’, ‘imagefield_file’);

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