We have truly lost a visionary. Rest In Peace Mr. Jobs.

The web service will parse the string convert it to an array. You can ofcourse pass any other type of string with a delimiter.

Here is how the server is.

You are instantiating a class of the NuSOAP server and configuring it with WSDL. You also create two functions,, one handles the $server->register method which takes the argument incoming request and the outgoing response and the $server->wsdl with arguments defining the server as a document/literal.

Then for my task purpose the incoming delimited string is converted to an associative array and then converted back to string with the proper formatting I require ($bcStr), if you have barcode class you can pass that string and a barcode image should be generated from it. That however is not covered on this tutorial.

Next is simple php client to test the web service out.

".
	$client->getError()."

(". $client->fault->faultcode .")  ".
	$client->fault->faultstring. "

". $client->getError() ."

". $result["Pass"] ."

' .
htmlspecialchars( $client->request, ENT_QUOTES) .'

' .
htmlspecialchars( $client->response, ENT_QUOTES) .'

' .
htmlspecialchars( $client->debug_str, ENT_QUOTES) .'

This time I instantiated a nusoap_client note that underscore _ as I got stuck on this earlier and got PHP complaining when it was just nusoapclient. Next I created the string params to be passed to the DoSomething method via $client->call.

Then from here we goback to our force.com app we make a soap request to the webservice and it returns with the response we need. On Force.com make sure you add your web service the Remote Site Settings under Setup > Administrative Setup > Security Controls.

Kudos for the resource and solution for task from the original author mleiv blog’s.

AR Jewelry – Platform for demonstration of products (jewelry, toys etc) using the 3D Augmented Reality technology.

The list of products in this application is downloaded from Internet allowing to add dynamically new products to the server and demonstrate them to users.

Ready to licence it(as white label) to third parties(advertising agencies, jewelry/toys etc producers etc) etc.

More AR solutions: http://ar23d.com

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!

My server settings are Apache2 and Ubuntu 9.x

sudo a2enmod SSL

3. Create the server SSL Key

sudo bash

On Ubuntu this changes you to the root user as you cannot access the directory on the next step.

cd /etc/ssl/private

openssl genrsa -des3 -out myserver.com.key 2048

Make sure its 2048 and not 1024 bit as this would be required later on GoDaddy.
Enter keyphrase

5. Create the CSR (Certificate Service Request) to be entered on GoDaddy

openssl req -new -key myserver.com.key -out myserver.com.csr

Upon enter it will ask you for several things but make sure that under Common Name you put your website url (myserver.com). (GoDaddy will throw an error if it is not a correct website)

6. View the CSR and Copy. Paste it later to your GoDaddy SSL Certificate Management

7. On GoDaddy SSL Certificate Management make a Request and choose Third Party, Web Server no Control Panel. And Paste the CSR code.

a. Upon Submit you would get the approval. It would check that your domain registry and administrative contacts to verify.
b. If it cannot be verified via the domain registry, you will be emailed a code that you need to create as a file and upload to your server instead.

8. Install your certificate gd_bundle.crt and myserver.com.crt to your server. Upload them to the server and install. Back to shell

mv gd_bundle.crt /etc/ssl/gd_bundle.crt
mv myserver.com.crt /etc/ssl/certs/myserver.com.crt

9. Edit the default Apache2 values at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. Create a new virtualhost

NameVirtualHost *:443

DocumentRoot /var/www/
SSLEngine on
SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/myserver.com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/myserver.com.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/gd_bundle.crt

10. Make sure Apache2 to listen on port 443, edit the /etc/apache2/ports.conf
Under

Listen 443

10. Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

If all went well you should be able to access https

For EC2 make sure Port 443 is enabled as well on the AWS Console

11. Then to force redirect users to https create an htaccess file and upload to your root www folder

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.myserver.com/$1 [R,L]

# ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Dubai /etc/localtime

3 Workaround solutions gathered are the following.
1. Set Time Zone per connection

eg. SET time_zone = ‘Asia/Dubai’;

2. MySQL convert_tz function per insert

insert into table (timestamp) values (convert_tz(now(), ‘GST’, ‘Asia/Dubai’));

3. Manually getting timezone by code

$date = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’);
insert into table(date) values (‘” . $date .”‘)

Another issue I have is to update old timestamp records in my database to adjust it by 4 hours. If you have a table with old records and want to update the timezone by adding/minus (x) hours to adjust you can try this query.

UPDATE table SET datefield= DATE_ADD(datefield, INTERVAL 4 HOUR);

index.php?page=news

script-kiddies and hackers love this, make sure you sanitize the variables before you do a select query on your database, a simple index.php?page=news&1=1 could expose your db.

a. First turn off magic_quotes, you should stop using this as its deprecated and causes a bit of confusion from addslashes/stripslashes.

b. To sanitize here are a couple of functions you can use, strip_tags() and mysql_real_escape_string() functions, use them on your passed variable before you use in a select or insert statement.

c. Learn how to use apache_mod_rewrite, you can rename your query strings plus its a good SEO tool so from

index.php?page=news to something like /page/news/

2. If you have users in your system make sure their passwords are strong enough. Use uppercase, lowercase, characters etc.. If a hack was able to do an SQL Injection and got hold of your database info and users, they can reverse md5 a weak password in seconds.

NOTE: For testing I used a tool to try SQL Injection on a copy of the website on my localhost, I was able crack it in less than 5 minutes. Thats how fast a hacker can compromise your system if security is weak.

3. WYSIWG CKEditor is a great tool but it opens alot of vulnerability, without properly sanitizing the input you can put in malicous javascript codes. Test your editor by entering

alert(“Test”)

If you see the alert box your very susceptible to XSS attack.

Since CKEditor outputs HTML you can’t do strip_tags as it will strip away your HTML unless you pass it some parameters. A better way is to install HTMLPurifier, its free and opensource. Using it will dramatically reduce the chances of getting an XSS attack on your editor.

4. If you are using CKFinder you must properly set the CheckAuthentication function, simply stating true will allow anybody who knows the location of the file to upload any file to your system. Good thing CKFinder upload is disabled for files with .php extensions or the renamed shell script from (file.php to file.php.pdf) would have compromised my server further.

So if you’re a hobbyist like me start checking out the sites I listed above and earn from your photographs. I’m hobbyist/amateur/novice photographer and not really a professional, I’m not fond of wedding photography or covering events. I just like to capture art and the moment.