6/20/2006
iTunes and Links to Music Store
Why don’t we have the option to switch this to a search of or sort to that artist or album in our own library?
In this age of hyperliked everything, I can’t believe something so simple isn’t.
Popularity: 11%
6/15/2006
Directory Shortcuts Using Bash Functions
Modify this snippet to match the directory shortcuts you need on your system and add into your .bashrc file:
www () {
if [ $1 == "domain1" ]; then
cd /www/vhosts/domain1.com/htdocs
elif [ $1 == "domain2" ]; then
cd /www/vhosts/domain2.com/htdocs
else
cd /www/vhosts/$1 ;
fi
echo `pwd`;
}
if [ $1 == "domain1" ]; then
cd /www/vhosts/domain1.com/htdocs
elif [ $1 == "domain2" ]; then
cd /www/vhosts/domain2.com/htdocs
else
cd /www/vhosts/$1 ;
fi
echo `pwd`;
}
To use:
www domain1
Popularity: 14%
6/13/2006
XSLT Transforms With Sablotron
To transform the XML output of one application into nice looking html with Sablotron
sabcmd XSL-STYLESHEET XML-INPUT-FILE HTML-OUTPUT-FILE
This is cool for making reports of Nmap port scans.
nmap -v -sV 127.0.0.1 -oX XML-OUTPUT-FILE
-oX produces XML output
Later versions of Nmap come with an XSL template (nmap.xsl). If you can’t find that one, try one of these:
Popularity: 6%
6/12/2006
ZenCart Simple Attributes Stock Tracking
I developed a quantity by attribute modification for ZenCart for a client about six months ago. It has been working very well for them, but it only supports simple attributes. Size OR color OR fabric not size AND color or size AND fabric. The complexity and time involved with maintaining such a detailed inventory of their 1,000’s of products steered us both away from that. Instead they were able to make intelligent choices on which attribute to track for a given type of product so that their inventories are very close without the added complexity.
An example:
http://www.pimpcostumes.com/…/Hos-Sexy-Shoes/Sexy-Heels-Orbit-Red/643,139
The size select box should have some items that show as low stock.
Thanks to another client who needed a similar modification, I was able to more generalize the mod more and roll it into a contribution for ZenCart.
Download zencart_attributes_quantity.zip
This is a first draft release, so if you find any issues, please forward me your Zencart version, the issue you encountered and a solution if you found one.
Popularity: 27%
6/9/2006
Stop Forum Spam
Spammers have now moved from email spam to blog comment spam to forum spam. I have received several complaints of dozens of daily messages posted to public forums. One enterprising spammer has been posting advertisement for his forum spamming services with links to an email address for contacting him.
If you have a low volume forum, you can subscribe to all new posts and delete as necessary. Most spams that I have seen come from a new user account. The spammer appears to be using a script to create a new forum account to post the single message and move on. Subsequent spam messages are also posted from a single use forum account. One way around this is to require admin approval on all new signups. Another option may be to require captcha and or email validation before automatically approving the new forum account. YMMV as some captcha systems can be easily circumvented.
Popularity: 81%
6/5/2006
ZenCart Sales Report State Filter
The ZenCart Sales Report contribution allows a site owner to easily and quickly generate sales reports with many different filters. The one missing filter was a state or local zone filter. This filter would be useful for figuring out total local sales for state sales tax purposes.
I have updated the contribution to include this filter.
Thanks to Frank Koehl for the orignal contribution.
Download zen_sales_report_v1.4.1.zip
Popularity: 21%
