Michael Kolb Fulda» Web developing

New Flash MP3 Player

mk_michael — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:42:57 +0000

A new free flash mp3 player has been released by Reality Software (Toronto, Canada). The component allows you to play music on your website. The application is very easy to install. Download it from the website and put it into your web directory. The component will automaticly scan your folders for .mp3 files.

The basic features of this software are (taken form the project website):

easy installation
standard player controls
forms playlist automatically
customizable design
fully resizable

Useful links:
Download Flash MP3 Player for free

New Flash Gallery released by Reality Software

mk_michael — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:07:48 +0000

A new flash image gallery has been released by Andrey Markin (Reality Software). This free application allows you to create a slideshow on your website. Easy installation, automatic slideshow generation, customizable design and other cool features. The application has been tested by the author and it’s quite recommendable.

The basic features are (taken from the website):

easy installation (no programming skills required)
forms slideshow automatically (scans specified folder for images, creates thumbnails and uses filenames for titles)
supports Flickr photostream
customizable design
fully resizable
fullscreen option
and of course, it’s free…

Helpful links:

Flash Gallery Website

Forgotten password for joomla backend

mk_michael — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:18:34 +0000

Open your joomla database with the PhpMyAdmin. Update the table jos_users:
Look for user “admin”, in most cases with the id 62. Edit the password field and type in:

21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3

in Joomla >= 1.0.13 type in:

af9083d4b82dbc0745b124db3b3cf15d:M0WuLowO4rtRTddG

Now you can login with user admin and password admin. Please don’t forget to change the password immediately.

Another possiblity is to open your database with PhpMyAdmin. Edit the the table jos_users where admin is the user inside. Change the passwort field definition to MD5 and type in your clear password. Than save it.

Helpful Links:

Joomla Password (DE)

Carrington theme – display comments in reverse order

mk_michael — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:36:57 +0000

Unfortunately, the favorite wordpress theme carrington-blog displays the comments in a reverse order. By default, the newes comment is shown at bottom. If you want to display the newest comment on top of list, you have to follow these instructions:

Open the file themes/carrington-blog/comments/comments-default.php

if ($comments) { // add this command to reorder the comments $comments = array_reverse($comments); $comment_count = 0;

Carrington theme – display page comments

mk_michael — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:39:37 +0000

By using the carrington wordpress theme 1.3, you will have some problems to display comments on pages. Comments are working fine on posts, but on pages you will never see a comment although you’ve enabled it.

To solve the problem, just change the following line:

Open the file theme/carrigton-blog/pages/pages-default.php
// uncomment this line and use the comments_template instead //cfct_comments(); comments_template();

Generate your next web 2.0 project automaticly

mk_michael — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:13:47 +0000

You’re going to plan the next web 2.0 project? Don’t invest to much time, I’ve found an online creator that will do this automaticly for you. You can define all your typical web 2.0 specifications. The tool will create a XHTML/CSS layout. You also need some venture capital? – Not a problem, you can also type in the money you will need for this.

It’s not to late to become a Web 2.0 Gazillionaire!

Find the online web 2.0 creator at:
http://www.web20generator.com

Free flash mp3 player for website

mk_michael — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:56:59 +0000

By using this free flash mp3 player, everyone is able to integrate an mp3 player into a website. On the download website, you can also find a code generator, which allows you to define different colors for the player.

The player is open source an can be used for free.

You can find and download the players at:
http://flash-mp3-player.net/

CyStats getMostVisited widget for sidebar

mk_michael — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:52:14 +0000

CyStats is one of the most favorite statistic plugins for wordpress. It’s quite fast and supports several API functions. One of these functions is called getMostVisited, which displays the most popular posts.

In the past, this function must be coded manually inside sidebar.php. I’ve already written an article about line break problems and how to integrate this function into sidebar.php. Find the aritcle here..

Now I’ve released a plugin, which gives you the opportunity to show most popular posts inside sidebar by using a widget instead of coding..

INSTALLATION:

Be sure, CyStats Plugin is installed – 0.9.8
Download the file, unzip it and copy to /wp-content/plugins/
Go to plugins menue in wordpress and activate it
Take a sidebar of your choice and configure the widget

Please comment any problems – I will try to fix it as soon as possible.

Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Helpful links:

CyStats getMostVisited() shows unpublished posts

mk_michael — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:39:17 +0000

CyStats is one of the most and best statistic plugins for wordpress. I use this plugin in my wordpress blog too.

I noticed that this API function shows unpublished posts in sidebar too, which is mostly not wanted. To avoid this, I’ve changed a little inside the CyStats core.

Open the file: wp-content/plugins/cystats/includes/template-functions.php and do the programming in my code comments.


function cystats_getMostVisited($limit, $pre, $pos, $showmode=TRUE)
{
  global $wpdb;
  $ret = array();
  $q = "SELEC val1 AS item val3 AS value
        FROM ".$wpdb->prefix.CYSTATS_TABLE_STATISTICS."
        WHERE type=".CYSTATS_POSTCOUNT."
        ORDER BY val3 DESC
        LIMIT ".$wpdb->escape($limit);
  $r = $wpdb->get_results($q,ARRAY_A);

  if(is_array($r))
  {
    foreach ($r AS $row)
    {
      #$percent = round(($row['value']/$max * 100));
      // [mk] CHANGE SELECT STATEMENT
      // [mk] ADD - WHERE post_status='publish'
      $postdata=$wpdb->get_results
("SELECT post_title,guid FROM ".$wpdb->posts." WHERE
post_status='publish' AND ID=".(intval($row['item'])),ARRAY_A);
      // [mk] ADD IF STATEMENT
      if ($postdata[0]['guid'] != "")
      {
        $row['item']=''.
str_replace(" "," ",$postdata[0]['post_title']).'';
        $ret[] = $pre.$row['item'].' ('.$row['value'].')'.$pos;
      }
    }
    if($showmode==TRUE)
    {
      foreach($ret AS $row)
      {
        echo $row;
      }
    }
    else
    {
      return($ret);
    }
  }
  else
    return FALSE;
}

Adapt the sql query and limit it to all posts with status “publish”. Secondary add the “if” statement around the two lines, because the main foreach loops around the very fist query.

Alternatively, you may try to change the first “$q” query, which is more hard work.

Free content management without database

mk_michael — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:31:23 +0000

A cms without using any kind of sql databases like mysql? … is this technology suggestive? Well, in some cases it could be beneficial.

Why a cms without db could make sense, please feel free to comment some more possible reasons:

very less changes of content
no mysql support in hosting plan
no skills in db administration

Below some screenshots of content management systems, which doesn’t require a database like mysql. They are using file based databases. You will find some helpful cms links at bottom of this post.

CMSimple | www.cmsimple.com
Language: php >= 4.0.4
Features: up to 1000pages, wwwaut for better protection, WYSIWYG is OEdit

cms -db | cms-db.de
Language: php5
Features: sitemap, guestbook, shows page impressions

moziloCMS | cms.mozilo.de
Language: php >= 4.3.0
Features: special syntax, easy layout management

openEdit | www.openedit.org
Language: Java Servlet
Features: asset management, blog, calendar, search, friendly URL, LDAP

web dir X | www.webdirx.drcho.be
Language: php
Features: up to 120 pages

GuppY | www.freeguppy.org
Language: php
Features: bilingual support, guestbook, newsletter system, light version for PDA

nanoCMS | nanocms.in
Language: php
Features: multilingual, template system

Useful links:

Please feel free to comment any reason, why a file based cms may be benefical.