Hello all I'm very thankful for this community here, wouldn't know what to do without you all.
First of all, I'm not even sure if the title to this post is accurate; please read on. In a nutshell what I'm trying to do in Wordpress is create a 'reply' button that will be displayed on the individual post's page. When someone clicks on this 'reply' button it will take them to a different WP page that is using a private messaging plugin. On this page I would like the 'to:' field to automatically know who to reply to (author of the post).
Now here's my question. Is this accomplished by "passing a variable" from first page to the second or is there another way to do this?
I'm not asking for specific code help so please don't tell me to go talk with the plugin developer. I'm just trying to get a general idea of how something like can be accomplished so that I can do some research myself.
At the very least, If someone get give me a starting point for me to do some google research that would be all I need. Being fairly new I don't even know what phrase I should be googling for.
Yes, you can do that by implementing simple wp plugin. First of all you need to know that, there are lots of wp specific functions. You can use the_content for putting your reply link after post content, and get_author_meta in order to get post's author email for putting it in your custom link. I know, you don't want to talk about code, but I can give you sample example; In order to apply this functionality on all post, you can simply implement a plugin.
Edit: For redirecting to Private Messaging plugin's send page with prepopulated recipient field, I have updated get_the_author_meta('email') with get_the_author_meta('user_login'). Now, you can go to mail send page, by clicking Reply link
add_filter('the_content', 'add_custom_link');
function add_custom_link($content) { // You can think that $content => individual post
if(is_single()) {
$content .= 'Reply to this post';
}
return $content;
}
Save this code in a php file and zip it.Then, upload it to your wp site as plugin. And you will see your custom link at the end of your posts. Do not forget to update variables in plugin according to your needs(for example reply url domain)
Here is a working plugin demo: http://huseyinbabal.eu01.aws.af.cm/?p=1
Create a form that posts to the secondary page.
Use a hidden form field to pass the post ID
Make sure you prefix the form fields so your $_POST variable doesn't conflict with any other core/plugin variables
On the secondary page: make sure you sanitize that user input before you do anything else
with it
use the sanitized post id to look up the post's author, without
having to expose the author's email in the url.
Your Form should look something like so:
<form action="url-of-page-2" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="myprefix_id" value="<?php echo get_the_ID();?>">
<input type="submit" value="reply">
</form>
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I've been trying to figure this out using various different methods. I'm trying to create a script/bookmark or some type of quick action to open a browser tab or window with a specific URL, and automatically log me in using my credentials. I'm not all that concerned about security for this at the moment.
At first I figured I'd try to use a javascript bookmark to do this, but nothing I found in my research worked. Next I tried to create a bash script, but I couldn't figure out how to send the credentials in via the terminal. Most recently, I literally copied the source code of a site, created a local file and tried to hack together something where I could prefill the form data with credentials and use JS to submit the form, and I've gotten close with this, but for some reason when I use the JS submit function, it errors out and says that the username and password are invalid. But when i turn off the submit function and manually click "log in" on my local html page, it works as expected. I want this to be a one click process, so the idea of using onload/submit or something to that affect is really important to me.
The site I'm testing with has a Rails backend and my next attempt might be trying to use POST to do what I'm thinking, but that's currently outside of my level of knowledge on the subject.
Anyone answering: i do not want to use a password manager to accomplish this.
My requirement is that i will either be able to a) run a script or b) use a 1-click option to do this per website. Ideally i'd be able to set this up in a sort of programmatic way to do this with multiple sites, but I'd be happy with 1 at the moment.
i know similar questions have been answered before, but I haven't been able to use information from those posts (the ones I've seen anyway) to figure out a good way to do this.
Create a bookmark for the current page you have opened.
Edit the bookmark
Change the value for the URL to something like this.
(javascript:(function(){CODE_GOES_HERE_FROM_BELLOW})();
find the field for username and password on the page.
Given example for hotmail
var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for(var i=0;i<inputs.length;i++){if(inputs[i].name === 'passwd'){inputs[i].value = 'YOUR_PASSWORD'}else if(inputs[i].name === 'loginfmt'){inputs[i].value = 'YOUR_USERNAME'}}; document.getElementById(document.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].id).submit();
OR
try out casperjs.
The proposed solution didn't work for me and rather than spending tons of time installing a testing framework that I'll never use other than for this purpose, I decided to try to do this another way.
First, I found out that the reason my JS wasn't working before is because the site did not allow a JS submit to be done, or atleast that's what it seemed to be when I got this error: "Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience"
The javascript I was using was in fact working, just not submitting. I used the following code to fill the fields (using "Class Name" elements on the page since there was no name or ID):
document.getElementsByClassName('username')[0].setAttribute('value', 'user');
document.getElementsByClassName('password')[0].setAttribute('value', 'password');
As I mentioned, the problem was when I tried to use JQuery to submit the form: document.getElementsByClassName('loginForm')[0].submit();
Which is when the above error cropped up. I can't really say for sure whether this is the root of the cause, but the page does submit, but I get an invalid username/password error when I do
I haven't figured out a great way to get around this just yet, but my short-term, "hacky" solution was to use Applescript to send a return keystroke to the browser to submit the form. I'd ideally like to figure out how to get the submission to work using JQuery, but I'm not sure how to get around it.
Copying one issue and its child issues is a natively built-in feature and thus works just fine.
But is there a way to do this multiple times?
Like re-creating one issue (including its children) twenty or fifty times?
Edit 2
This new functionality should be accessible via the Redmine interface and compatible to any browser.
It does not matter whether it is a completely new Plugin, an extension to the built-in copy feature, a call to a PHP-script or anything else.
Due to compatibility (networking, browsers etc.) I guess a completely server-side modification is the only way to go here.
What parts of the default plugin (as created in the voting tutorial) or a core element would have to be changed?
Where can I find the code for the native issue copy function?
Or - if all this is too complicated - how would I write my plugin to point to a PHP file that manipulates the SQL database directly?
Edit:
To clarify: just like the normal copy function (either in the context menu or the top-right link, I don't care) I want to copy one issue and its sub-issues n times.
To let the user set the amount n, any user number input may suffice, like a textbox, a pop-up etc.
I think the simplest way to do this is to start with redmine source modification.
Once it works you can move on and try to extract this feature into plugin.
Note, that I am not a ruby developer, so some things below are just my guesses. But I did few small redmine modifications like this before and hope that my thoughts can be useful.
It will also be easier if you familiar with some of MVC frameworks (for any language), because they mostly have a similar structure with routes, controllers, views and models.
The Idea
The link to copy single issue looks like this: //redmine.myserver.com/projects/myapp/issues/12407/copy.
My idea is to add a num_copies parameter to this link and use it in the code to create many copies.
You need no UI for that, once implemented the feature will work like this:
find the issue you need
choose the copy action for it
once the form opened, manually add ?num_copies=XX parameter into the URL (//redmine.myserver.com/projects/myapp/issues/12407/copy?num_copies=50) and press 'Enter' to reload the form
check the details and submit the form - it will create multiple copies according to the num_copies parameter
The Implementation Plan
Now, how to do this.
I am referring to the redmine mirror on github which looks fresh.
1) Find where the .../copy link is handled
When you open the form to copy the issue, you'll see form like this:
<form action="/projects/myapp/issues" class="new_issue" id="issue-form" method="post">
<input id="copy_from" name="copy_from" type="hidden" value="12407">
<div class="box tabular">
<div id="all_attributes">
...
</form>
Note the form action, it points to the /issues link and it will submit the copy_from parameter (this is ID of the issue we are copying).
2) Find the code which handles the form submission
We could first go and check through the config/routes.rb, but we can just guess that we need the controllers/issues_controller.rb
Search for the place where copy_from parameter is used.
You'll see the build_new_issue_from_params method.
Now search for its usages and you'll find this:
before_filter :build_new_issue_from_params, :only => [:new, :create]
From how it looks, I guess that it is called before both new and create actions.
Looking at new and create definitions, the new action renders the new issue form and the create action handles the form post.
3) Add the num_copies parameter to the form
Find the view file used by new issue action.
Here there is a template for the new issue form, try to add num_copies parameter similar to the copy_from:
<%= title l(:label_issue_new) %>
<%= call_hook(:view_issues_new_top, {:issue => #issue}) %>
...
<%= error_messages_for 'issue' %>
<%= hidden_field_tag 'copy_from', params[:copy_from] if params[:copy_from] %>
Here I am not 100% sure if it will just work if you add a similar line for `num_copies. You may also need to modify the route.
When done, you should have the new issue form like this:
<form action="/projects/myapp/issues" class="new_issue" id="issue-form" method="post">
<input id="copy_from" name="copy_from" type="hidden" value="12407">
<input id="copy_from" name="num_copies" type="hidden" value="50">
<div class="box tabular">
<div id="all_attributes">
...
</form>
4) Handle the num_copies parameter
It should be done in the create action:
def create
...
call_hook(:controller_issues_new_before_save, { :params => params, :issue => #issue })
#issue.save_attachments(params[:attachments] || (params[:issue] && params[:issue][:uploads]))
if #issue.save
...
end
Here you already have the #issue variable created in the build_new_issue_from_params method and what you need to do is to check if num_copies parameter is set and if it is set then copy / save the #issue in a loop to create additional copies.
I can't provide the exact code snippet for this, but it should not be very complex.
Check this code in the bulk_update method, it looks like what you need:
issue = orig_issue.copy({},
:attachments => copy_attachments,
:subtasks => copy_subtasks,
:link => link_copy?(params[:link_copy])
)
I think this specific plugin is not high priority for Redmine community.
But, you can write very easy API calling for Java, Python or other language to do what you exactly want.
Here, you can see API documentation how to list, create, update issues.
Issue API documentation
PS: You can leave your request in redmine community,
maybe you are lucky https://redmine.org/projects/redmine/issues
Situation: I needed to add form with POST method to CMS page. I created custom hook and a module displaying the form successfully. Then I need to react to user input errors eg. when user doesn't enter email address I need to detect it, display the whole page again together with the form and with "errors" in user input clearly stated.
Problem: The problem is to display the WHOLE page again with connected information (eg. about errors etc.). In the module PHP file when I add this kind of code,
return $this->display(__FILE__, 'modulename.tpl');
it (naturally) displays ONLY the form, not the whole CMS page with the form.
In case of this code,
Tools::redirectLink('cms.php?id_cms=7');
I can't get to transfer any information by GET neither POST method.
$_POST['test'] = 1;
Tools::redirectLink('cms.php?id_cms=7&test');
I tried to assign to smarty variables too
$smarty->assign('test', '1');
(I need to use it in .tpl file where the form itself is created) but no way to get it work.
{if isset($test)}...,
{if isset($smarty.post.test)}...,
{if isset($_POST['test'])}... {* neither of these conditionals end up as true *}
Even assigning a GET parameter to url has no impact, because there is link rewriting to some kind of friendly url I guess, no matter I included other argument or not. ([SHOPNAME]/cms.php?id_cms=7&test -> [SHOPNAME]/content/7-cmspage-name)
My question is: is there a way to "redirect" or "reload" current page (or possibly any page generally) in prestashop together with my own data included?
I kind of explained the whole case so I'm open to hear a better overall solution than my (maybe I'm thinking about the case in a wrong way at all). This would be other possible answer.
The simplest method would be to use javascript to validate the form - you can use jQuery to highlight the fields that are in error; providing visual feedback on how the submission failed. In effect you don't allow the user to submit the form (and thus leave the page) until you're happy that the action will succeed. I assume that you will then redirect to another page once a successful submission has been received.
There's lots of articles and how-tos available for using javascript, and indeed jQuery for form validation. If you want to keep the site lean and mean, then you can provide an override for the CMS controller and only enqueue the script for the specific page(s) you want to use form validation on.
If the validation is complex, then you might be best using AJAX and just reloading the form section of your page via a call to your module. Hooks aren't great for this kind of thing, so you might want to consider using an alternative mnethod to inject your code onto the cms page. I've written a few articles on this alternative approach which can be found on my prestashop blog
Does anyone know how to dynamically change the page title in Sitefinity from a regular user control?
Our scenario is simple. We have a real estate website with a search feature. On the search results page we have a control showing the search results, but we need to be able to change the Page title, description and keywords based on the search performed.
We posted on Telerik, but they gave vague answers and pointed us to incorrect objects or objects that didn't actually work.
?
Regards,
Jacques
The way I've usually done this in the past is by using an external widget template.
By mapping your widget template to an external file, you can use a full User Control (.ascx file) which means you can also run code behind.
From there it's just a matter of running something like
Page.Title = "whatever";
For more info on using an external template for Sitefinity Widgets, check out this post: http://www.sitefinity.com/blogs/joshmorales/posts/11-05-10/mapping_external_templates_for_sitefinity_4_widgets.aspx
Hope this is helpful!
I need to POST a HTML form to a 3rd party website (a Mass-SMS texting system).
In the past I've done this by forwarding to a page containing a form I've pre-populated and hidden (using display:none), then I've ran a javascript function at the end of the page to automatically submit this form.
However I'm hoping theres someway I can do all this programmatically (as I don't care about the response, and the user doesn't need to see the page the form is being posted to).
How can I do this? Cheers
You could use a WebClient.UploadValues method to send an HTTP POST request to a remote server from your code behind. Just fill up the name/value collection with the values coming from the hidden fields.
If you're willing to get into PHP, you can very easily use cURL for this.
Otherwise it's going to be quite difficult using just Javascript.
See here for a detailed tutorial.