Target: Make WordPress rewrite this URLs

http://www.thesite.com/mypage/food/

to

http://www.thesite.com/mypage/?ingredients=food

http://www.thesite.com/mypage/food/asia/

to

http://www.thesite.com/mypage/?ingredients=food&origin=asia

1. Create your plugin and create a shortcode

(eg. add_shortcode(‘myapp’, ‘myfunction’); )

2. Create a new Page and add the shortcode

[myapp]

With Permalinks off your page looks like

http://www.thesite.com/?page_id=5

And is basically the same as

http://www.thesite.com/index.php?page_id=5

With Permalinks on

http://www.thesite.com/mypage/

3. If you pass a query on your app the URL may look like this, Im passing the queries on the URL

http://www.thesite.com/mypage/?ingredients=food

or

http://www.thesite.com/mypage/?ingredients=food&origin=asia

Depending on the queries passed the contents on your page changes.

4. Now to rewrite the URLs to be friendly you need to add a filter and use query_vars

add_filter(‘query_vars’, ‘my_query_vars’);
function my_query_vars($public_query_vars) {
$public_query_vars[] = “ingredients”;
$public_query_vars[] = “origin”;
return $public_query_vars;
}

This ensure that when WordPress parses the URL, the ingredients and origin gets saved in the query variables.

4. Next is create your rewrite rules and store in an array

add_filter(‘generate_rewrite_rules’, ‘my_rewrite’);

function my_rewrite($wp_rewrite) {
$wp_rewrite->rules =
array_merge(array
(
‘^mypage/([^/]+)/?$’ => ‘index.php?page_id=5e&ingredients=$matches[1]‘,
‘^mypage/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$’ => ‘index.php?page_id=5&ingredients=$matches[1]&origin=$matches[2]‘

), $wp_rewrite->rules);
}

Note: That you are rewriting to the original URL of the page. You are storing each rewrite rule to an array and finally adding them to a filter by generate_rewrite_rules.

5. To get the variables back just call the get_query_vars function on your plugin.

echo get_query_var(‘ingredients’);

So this is how I got my problem solved. Hopefully it would be a great help to others. Happy rewriting and coding!

http://blog.xoom.com/2010/03/new-minimum-send-amounts-payment-source.html

And later confirmed by an email I sent to their customer service.

Thank you for contacting Xoom Customer Service.

Firstly, I would like to apologize for inconvenience caused to you regarding this issue. Please be advised that in order to send money to the Philippines you need to have an US Bank account or a US Debit/Credit Card.
Apart from Philippines you can use International Credit card or US bank Account to transfer funds.

Currently we do not have any expected date of re-instating the services; but would encourage you to keep visiting our web-site for any update.

Thank you again for choosing Xoom.com – the Smarter Way to Send Money

Which means my employer in Dubai can no longer send with his local card and account on UAE.

Seems alot of people are hit by this change. Xoom has been actively stopping fraud transactions being done using their service and it has affected even those that uses their service for legit remittance.

This year has been good to me specially after my car accident last February where I wrecked our car but came out with just just some minor bruise and a couple of loose teeth. Since then I have been more keen to just focus on working instead and it turned out well by being blessed with projects.

On skill side what I was hoping to get certified with PHP within the year is yet again shifted to next year. I’ve been quite busy with client projects and learning new skills particulary salesforce.com which we will be using on our next big project.

On business side I have registered myself as a company and would be coming up with a new product a sort of a social network business directory. I would still be sticking with my client but work on this new product as a source of passive income. Something that would generate me some money even if I’m not working I’m earning. Is this possible? Hehe. Some found out how to do it so you will never know if it would work out unless you try. So I’m pushing ahead with this goal hopefully January of 2010.

I have a lot more to look forward to in 2010 but I also have a lot of things that “could have”, “would have” for 2009. I just learn from the past and move forward and be more productive in 2010. Hope you guys do the same too. Let’s go.

I’ve been drafting some new designs for my new startup company. Yep I’m moving away from being freelance to owning a company. So stay tuned.

On top of my list daily work flow is to start blogging again to get back into the scene, mastering CodeIgniter, review and learn some new skills like photography with my recent acquisition of a DSLR .  And so far based on the recent 3 days I’ve been managing my work flow it is working like a charm.  So expect this blog to be revived with new entries and tutorials this coming days. (I know I said that before but this time it’s for real. LOL).

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2247497/russian-hackers-took-twitter

Quoted from Google:

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web

How does it work?

In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use “playback” to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.

Being a freelance web designer and developer this kind of tool is something I can use, Currently I use BaseCamp for Project Management and like it.

Which skill level do you think you have?

Quoted from procata.com

Level 1: Beginner

* Little or no previous experience
* Doesn’t want to learn: wants to accomplish a goal
* No discretionary judgement
* Rigid adherence to rules

Level 2: Advanced Beginner

* Starts trying tasks on their own
* Has difficulty troubleshooting
* Wants information fast
* Can place some advice in context required
* Uses guidelines, but without holisitic understanding

Level 3: Competent

* Develops conceptual models
* Troubleshoots on their own
* Seeks out expert advice
* Sees actions at least partially in terms of long-term plans and goals

Level 4: Proficient

* Guided by maxims applied to the current situation
* Sees situations holistically
* Will self-correct based on previous performance
* Learns from the experience of others
* Frustrated by oversimplified information

Level 5: Expert

* No longer relies on rules, guidelines, or maxims
* Works primarily from intuition
* Analytic approaches only used in novel situations or when problems occur
* When forced to follow set rules, performance is degraded