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VMware Webservices

Yvo — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:09:39 +0000

VMware deploys with a broken webservice (the definitions are incomplete)
This can be easily fixed by following these steps.

Download the SDK from VMware and manually install the definitions
I hope this posts saves you some headache.

Download the VMware SDK
Extract all files
Copy the files from SDK/vsphere-ws/wsdl/vim and SDK/vsphere-ws/wsdl/vim25 to your server e.g. C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\docRoot\sdk
(may be located elsewhere on your server)

Thats it. You may restart your “VMware vCenter Server Web Services HTTP” (via services) and everything should work perfectly.

Another headache case is connecting via the standard PHP-SoapClient since VMware accepts ONLY correctly namespaced XML packets

To solve this you’ll have to override your SoapClient here below I’ll demonstrate how to override

//Overridden SoapClient (basically it injects the default XML-Schema instance)
class VMware_SoapClient extends SoapClient
{
    public function __doRequest($request,$location,$action,$version,$one_way = 0)
    {
        $inject = 'xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"';
        if (strpos($request, $inject) === false) {
            $pos = strpos($request, 'xmlns:');
            if ($pos !== false) {
                $pos = strpos($request, '>', $pos);
                if ($pos !== false) {
                    $request = substr($request, 0, $pos) . ' ' . $inject . substr($request, $pos);
                }
            }
        }
        return parent::__doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way);
    }
}

HTML5 for wordpress

Yvo — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:29:37 +0000

The following code has HTML5 replacements for the doctype, and other elements for WordPress themes. Add this code to your header.php file and you site will use HTML5.

For internet explorer compatibility it will include the html5shiv this code will recognize and style the HTML5 elements in internet explorer prior to version 9.

Please backup(!) and check your theme carefully before deploying.

Members only access

Yvo — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:06:26 +0000

Sometimes you only want to show content for registered users. You can think of zip-files with photo’s or other content. To do this in wordpress you can achieve this by following these instructions.

Paste the following code in your functions.php file.
(this file is located in your /wp-content/themes// directory)

//register the shortcode in wordpress
add_shortcode( 'registered', 'registered_only_shortcode' );

function registered_only_shortcode( $atts, $content = null )
{
 //criteria
 //is the user logged in?
 //is the content not null?
 //isn't it an RSS request?
 if ( is_user_logged_in() && !is_null( $content ) && !is_feed() )
 {
 //the user matches the criteria... return the content.
 return $content;
 }
 else
 {
 //the user didn't match one of the criteria above.
 //so return nothing.
 return '';
 }
}

Anytime when you post something with “registered users only”-content you can use it in the following way:


This is my post. Everybody can see it.

[registered]
You are registered so you can read this! Unregistered user can not see this text.
[/registered]

As you can see it is very easy to setup.

Disabling cache for stylesheets

Yvo — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:35:29 +0000

What is “Cache“? Your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.—whatever application you use to surf the web) has a folder in which certain items that have been downloaded are stored for future access. Graphic images (such as buttons, banners, icons, advertising, graphs, and color bars), photographs, and even entire web pages are examples of cache items. When going to a page on a website, your computer will check its cache folder first to see if it already has those images and, if so, it won’t take the time to download them again. This makes for a faster loading of the page. Cache folders can get quite large, however, and can occupy 40-to-50-to-100 megabytes or more of hard drive space, storing graphics for sites you may never visit again, so it may be wise for those with storage concerns to empty the cache periodically. That will also enable the browser to access updated web pages without the older cache item interfering. You can also limit how much cache is stored.

To disable caching in wordpress insert the following code in the section of your theme:

The above line will insert append a number (Posix time) to the query string of the URL containing the time when file was last modified. This way your stylesheet file will always be up-to-date according to the file system.

AtomiconGallery for Joomla 1.5.x

Yvo — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:22:17 +0000

AtomiconGallery is a lightweight database-less gallery.

The gallery is developed with the ease of use and designers in mind.

Easy to implement and use for both you and/or your clients.

The whole gallery setup is so transparent you can easily customize the gallery without being a Joomla! guru.

It has a thumbnail generator/images resizer, you can add descriptions to your images.

It also makes use of the fabulous slimbox.
But that can also be easily overridden with your own lightbox implementation.

Features

Thumbnail and Image generation
Creating thumbnails and resizing images
Easy implementation
Installation is easy and the parameters are easy to follow
Transparent and clear CSS
The CSS setup is very transparent making it easy to customize for designers
Runs out of the box
It runs straight out of the box
Easy navigation
Users can easily navigate through the gallery
Languages
Easily translate the gallery (support for three languages initially: English, Dutch, German and Swedish)

Changelog

Security fix: As of 16 september changed the chmod 0777 to 0755
Fixed the ‘exotic filenames’ bug (e.g. names like ‘ab(20).jpg’ work from now on.
Added the swedish language (huge thanks to: Ola Heed, from www.gadgit.se)
Fixed a few common CSS problems with templates.

Demo’s

And these are just a few… if you want your one listed here please contact me and I’ll be happy to add your site!

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