Author Archives: Robert

Auto-claim Zynga Rewards (Everybody & Friends)

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Here’s a little bookmarklet I wrote that you can add use automatically collect Zynga rewards while you’re playing games over at Zynga.com. It seems to work for all rewards regardless of which game you’re playing (though I primarily use it for CastleVille).

javascript:var classesPublic='zui_list_itemsContainer zui_zdc_gameboard_rts_rtsList_itemsContainer zui_zdc_gameboard_rts_rtsPublicList_itemsContainer';var classesNeighbors='zui_list_itemsContainer zui_zdc_gameboard_rts_rtsList_itemsContainer zui_zdc_gameboard_rts_rtsNeighborList_itemsContainer';var classesButtons='zui zui_button zui_enabled zui_button_enabled zui_zdc zui_button_zdc zui_zdc_enabled zui_button_zdc_enabled zui_button_tiny zui_button_white';var unclaimedRewardsNeighbors,unclaimedRewardsPublic;var unclaimedNeighborsInit=unclaimedPublicInit=true;function collectRewardsNeighbors(){for(unclaimedIndex=0;unclaimedIndex=1){if(unclaimedNeighborsInit){unclaimedNeighborsInit=false;collectRewardsNeighbors();}else{setTimeout('collectRewardsNeighbors()',1000);}}},false);var parentUnclaimedPublic=document.getElementsByClassName(classesPublic)[0];parentUnclaimedPublic.addEventListener('DOMSubtreeModified',function(){unclaimedRewardsPublic=parentUnclaimedPublic.getElementsByClassName(classesButtons);if(unclaimedRewardsPublic.length>=1){if(unclaimedPublicInit){unclaimedPublicInit=false;collectRewardsPublic();}else{setTimeout('collectRewardsPublic()',1000);}}},false);

What you need to do, is copy the code above and paste it into a new bookmark within your browser. Couldn’t be easier 🙂

Note: This script requires a browser that supports the DOMSubtreeModified – DOM Level 2 Mutation Event (eg: IE9, FF, Safari and Chrome)

jQuery UI replacement for javascript:confirm() links

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Here is a nice confirmation handler to replace javascript:confim() links using jQuery UI…

$(function() {
    $('.ui-icon-trash').click(function(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        var targetUrl = $(this).attr('href');
        $('<div title="Confirmation Required"><p>Delete this record?</p></div>').dialog({
            autoOpen: true,
            modal: true,
            resizable: false,
            buttons: {
                Yes: function() {
                    window.location.href = targetUrl;
                },
                No: function() {
                    $(this).remove();
                }
            }
        });
    });
});

I use it for “delete” links (should be obvious) but it can be easily adjusted for any other type of confirmation.

Cheers!

Number Pad (NumLock On) ASCII ALT Key Character Codes

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Just a quick reference list for numeric pad key sequences for typing ASCII characters not found on the keyboard.

All you have to do is turn NumLock on, hold the ALT key, type the desired number, then let go of the ALT key. Have fun 😀

ASCII Codes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ • ◘ ○ ◙ ♂ ♀ ♪ ♫ ☼ ►
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
◄ ↕ ‼ § ▬ ↨ ↑ ↓ → ← ∟ ↔ ▲ ▼
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
! “ # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , – . / 0
49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @
65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96
Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ `
97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p
113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128
q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ ⌂ Ç
129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144
ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å É
145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160
æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ¢ £ ¥ ₧ ƒ á
161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176
í ó ú ñ Ñ ª º ¿ ⌐ ¬ ½ ¼ ¡ « » ░
177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192
▒ ▓ │ ┤ ╡ ╢ ╖ ╕ ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ ╜ ╛ ┐ └
193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208
┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ ╞ ╟ ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ╧ ╨
209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224
╤ ╥ ╙ ╘ ╒ ╓ ╫ ╪ ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▌ ▐ ▀ α
225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240
ß Γ π Σ σ µ τ Φ Θ Ω δ ∞ φ ε ∩ ≡
241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255
± ≥ ≤ ⌠ ⌡ ÷ ≈ ° ∙ · √ ⁿ ² ■
02222 0169 0153
® © ™

Use .htaccess to force SSL and WWW prefix

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Just a quick snippet showing how to force the HTTPS protocol (SSL) and the “www” sub-domain…

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

There are other ways to achieve the same result, but I find this method is clean and requires the least amount of overhead to incorporate.

Find all files and directories with specific permissions (eg: CHMOD) using LS and GREP commands on Linux

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Just a quick snippet that I used today to find all files/folders with specific permissions in a directory before moving a site from a development server to a production environment…

ls -Rl | grep -i 'rwxrwxrwx'

Note: The example above looks for all files and directories with maxed out (eg: 0777) permissions 😉

Improved database table structure for CodeIgniter sessions

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I had a problem where CodeIgniter sessions stored in the database were creating multiple session_id’s (each time the session library was called) for the same user.

Here is how my session configuration is defined…

$config['sess_cookie_name']        = 'my-session';
$config['sess_expiration']        = 60*60*2; //2 hours
$config['sess_expire_on_close']    = TRUE;
$config['sess_encrypt_cookie']    = FALSE;
$config['sess_use_database']    = TRUE;
$config['sess_table_name']        = 'sessions';
$config['sess_match_ip']        = FALSE;
$config['sess_match_useragent']    = TRUE;
$config['sess_time_to_update']    = 300;

Here is the updated table structure…

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `sessions` (
  `session_id` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '0',
  `ip_address` varchar(16) NOT NULL default '0',
  `user_agent` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `last_activity` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  `user_data` text NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`session_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

My solution… First, I increased the user_agent field to 255 characters in length. Then, since session_id is always 32 characters in length, I reduced that from 40. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.

Hope this helps someone else having the same problem with CodeIgniter sessions that are being stored in the database 🙂

Reset Gallery3 Admin Password using phpMyAdmin

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Just a quote note in case I need to find it again later…

If you forgot your admin password for Gallery3 by Menalto, open the users table via phpMyAdmin and replace the existing encrypted password with the following.

$P$DyhWrqfmMF/XKPf3CtPn0pIQDZpQKu

Now, you can log in using 12345 as the password. Make sure you change this immediately after logging back in!

Horizontal icon (footer) layout for Facebook chat contacts window… kind of like the Mac OSX app bar

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If you came here looking for the code, that will be a bit further down the road. Here is the plan…

Take this…

Note: The above screen has my hide offline users mod applied 😉

And make it look more like this…

This is a “for fun” project and will be completed as time permits. So check back soon for progress updates.