From kirblam at comcast.net  Mon Dec  3 10:59:11 2007
From: kirblam at comcast.net (john kirby)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:59:11 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] [JOB] Looking for LAMP contractors with Joomla
	experience
In-Reply-To: <2F154874-382F-4F4F-B219-CCADB2DB03B6@comcast.net>
References: <C2A99F27.5819%cliff@pinestream.com> <46850042.9020204@rsi.com>
	<2F154874-382F-4F4F-B219-CCADB2DB03B6@comcast.net>
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PTOToday.com has been steadily growing over the past 8 years. We're
looking for a Freelance Programmer to help support various projects
including:

    ? Porting a traditional html/non-framework php site to Joomla.
    ? Custom development working with wordpress, openads and vbulletin
installations.

If you have strong experience with the LAMP platform and preferably
Joomla, please email qualifications to: jkirby at ptotoday.com

From eporama at gmail.com  Thu Dec  6 10:41:10 2007
From: eporama at gmail.com (Erik Peterson)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:41:10 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Dhtml calendar popup suggestions
Message-ID: <d7e3cc580712060741j2c001ce3he87bcf1fe4551962@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/13/07, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a favorite dhtml popup calendar that they recommend? I've
tried a few and have been disappointed so far.


I'm coming in a bit late to the party, but thought I'd throw in my
favorite.  YUI. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/

They've done some really good work to get these tools
cross-platform/browser/etc.  It's a bit of overhead if you're really *just*
doing the calendar, but so far I've never found a project that I only wanted
to do a single client-side enhancement on...

Hope that helps,
_Erik
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From pamcallaway at pobox.com  Fri Dec  7 16:14:57 2007
From: pamcallaway at pobox.com (Pam Callaway)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:14:57 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Dhtml calendar popup suggestions
In-Reply-To: <d7e3cc580712060741j2c001ce3he87bcf1fe4551962@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d7e3cc580712060741j2c001ce3he87bcf1fe4551962@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <536ebfcf0712071314h3807e7f2h2beccb988dc628b8@mail.gmail.com>

I guess I missed the beginning of this conversation too, but I just
spent a while researching this so I'll add my 2c.  If you're looking
for a modern "Web 2.0" feel, Dojo has some nice widgets.

http://dojotoolkit.org/projects/dijit


On Dec 6, 2007 10:41 AM, Erik Peterson <eporama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/07, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have a favorite dhtml popup calendar that they recommend? I've
> tried a few and have been disappointed so far.
>
>
> I'm coming in a bit late to the party, but thought I'd throw in my favorite.
> YUI. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/
>
> They've done some really good work to get these tools
> cross-platform/browser/etc.  It's a bit of overhead if you're really *just*
> doing the calendar, but so far I've never found a project that I only wanted
> to do a single client-side enhancement on...
>
> Hope that helps,
> _Erik
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bostonphptalk mailing list
> Bostonphptalk at bostonphp.org
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/bostonphptalk
>
>

From peloke at gmail.com  Fri Dec  7 20:46:07 2007
From: peloke at gmail.com (Eddie Peloke)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:46:07 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Dhtml calendar popup suggestions
In-Reply-To: <d7e3cc580712060741j2c001ce3he87bcf1fe4551962@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d7e3cc580712060741j2c001ce3he87bcf1fe4551962@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <867431030712071746i353cd798t1044be2f6cc5a697@mail.gmail.com>

This one might have been mentioned also but there is a nice one for
mootools:

http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/calendar/


Eddie

On Dec 6, 2007 10:41 AM, Erik Peterson <eporama at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/13/07, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have a favorite dhtml popup calendar that they recommend?
> I've tried a few and have been disappointed so far.
>
>
> I'm coming in a bit late to the party, but thought I'd throw in my
> favorite.  YUI. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/
>
> They've done some really good work to get these tools
> cross-platform/browser/etc.  It's a bit of overhead if you're really *just*
> doing the calendar, but so far I've never found a project that I only wanted
> to do a single client-side enhancement on...
>
> Hope that helps,
> _Erik
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bostonphptalk mailing list
> Bostonphptalk at bostonphp.org
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/bostonphptalk
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From ken at secdat.com  Mon Dec 10 11:40:05 2007
From: ken at secdat.com (Kenneth Downs)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:40:05 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] [ANNOUNCE] New blog on database skills
Message-ID: <475D6BE5.8050309@secdat.com>

Hi folks,

A couple of weeks ago I started a new blog, and kicked it off with a 
series on Database skills that gets an entry every Monday morning.

The site is here, and this morning I did my third entry.  I hope that 
you find it useful.

http://database-programmre.blogspot.com

-- 
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
www.secdat.com    www.andromeda-project.org
631-689-7200   Fax: 631-689-0527
cell: 631-379-0010


From cliff at pinestream.com  Tue Dec 11 12:17:44 2007
From: cliff at pinestream.com (Cliff Hirsch)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:17:44 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Stir up the pot & Pretty URLs
Message-ID: <C3843068.AAC8%cliff@pinestream.com>

It?s been awfully quite here lately. We wouldn?t want NYPhP to get all the
attention, would we?

So...how many of you use ?pretty urls?? If you do, how do you do it? With a
Framework (Cake, Symphony, Zend, etc.) that you are using? Rolled your own?
Via php or mod_rewrite? Thoughts and ideas for introducing pretty urls into
an existing application (i.e. can?t jump into a new Framwork for a legacy
app)?

Happy holidays,
Cliff
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From mwithington at PLMresearch.com  Tue Dec 11 13:17:38 2007
From: mwithington at PLMresearch.com (Mark Withington)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:17:38 -0600
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Stir up the pot & Pretty URLs
In-Reply-To: <C3843068.AAC8%cliff@pinestream.com>
References: <C3843068.AAC8%cliff@pinestream.com>
Message-ID: <491198290712111017n21e7f9e2w1e69793a144f4bc2@mail.gmail.com>

NYPHP?  Who's that?

All my pretty urls are courtesy of mod_rewrite (and Joomla for the most
part).  I would think that mod_rewrite is the most economical way of
retrofitting legacy applications.  Frankly, seeing URLs that resemble DNA
sequences (e.g. Broadvision) is what makes for hearty surfers.


On Dec 11, 2007 11:17 AM, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:

>  It's been awfully quite here lately. We wouldn't want NYPhP to get all
> the attention, would we?
>
> So...how many of you use "pretty urls"? If you do, how do you do it? With
> a Framework (Cake, Symphony, Zend, etc.) that you are using? Rolled your
> own? Via php or mod_rewrite? Thoughts and ideas for introducing pretty urls
> into an existing application (i.e. can't jump into a new Framwork for a
> legacy app)?
>
> Happy holidays,
> Cliff
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bostonphptalk mailing list
> Bostonphptalk at bostonphp.org
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/bostonphptalk
>
>


-- 
Mark

--------------------------
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PLMresearch
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From chuck at horde.org  Tue Dec 11 13:37:05 2007
From: chuck at horde.org (Chuck Hagenbuch)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:37:05 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Stir up the pot & Pretty URLs
In-Reply-To: <491198290712111017n21e7f9e2w1e69793a144f4bc2@mail.gmail.com>
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	<491198290712111017n21e7f9e2w1e69793a144f4bc2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20071211133705.19896akmompudqg4@technest.org>

Quoting Mark Withington <mwithington at PLMresearch.com>:

> All my pretty urls are courtesy of mod_rewrite (and Joomla for the most
> part).  I would think that mod_rewrite is the most economical way of
> retrofitting legacy applications.  Frankly, seeing URLs that resemble DNA
> sequences (e.g. Broadvision) is what makes for hearty surfers.

I can throw in a plug for http://dev.horde.org/routes/. No external  
dependencies, just needs something (mod_rewrite, forcetype, PATH_INFO)  
to set the full path.

-chuck

From cliff at pinestream.com  Tue Dec 11 13:50:27 2007
From: cliff at pinestream.com (Cliff Hirsch)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:50:27 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Stir up the pot & Pretty URLs
In-Reply-To: <20071211133705.19896akmompudqg4@technest.org>
Message-ID: <C3844623.AAE6%cliff@pinestream.com>

On 12/11/07 1:37 PM, "Chuck Hagenbuch" <chuck at horde.org> wrote:
> > I can throw in a plug for http://dev.horde.org/routes/. No external
> dependencies, just needs something (mod_rewrite, forcetype, PATH_INFO)
> to set the full path.
> 
> -chuck

This looks perfect. Sure beats writing something from scratch like:

if(isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])) {
  $getvars = explode('/', $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
  list($null,$p1,$p2,...$pn) = $getvars;
  blahblahblah
}

I also clipped this from Symphony documentation, which looks like the basics
for entering the front-end controller. Would be easy enough to expand this
to accommodate different front-end scripts too.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

  # we skip all files with .something
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \..+$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$
  RewriteRule .* - [L]

  # we check if the .html version is here (caching)
  RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
  RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

  # no, so we redirect to our front web controller
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>



From greg.rundlett at gmail.com  Tue Dec 18 00:03:56 2007
From: greg.rundlett at gmail.com (Greg Rundlett)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:03:56 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Dhtml calendar popup suggestions
In-Reply-To: <536ebfcf0712071314h3807e7f2h2beccb988dc628b8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d7e3cc580712060741j2c001ce3he87bcf1fe4551962@mail.gmail.com>
	<536ebfcf0712071314h3807e7f2h2beccb988dc628b8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5e2aaca40712172103q71748a50r3921caf6f7f2e6e4@mail.gmail.com>

I'm very late on this thread, however if you've ever heard of jQuery,
(or Drupal), (or Symfony), then you should check out the jQueryUI
project for the 'datepicker' component (jQuery, and jQueryUI elements
are used in Drupal)  The calendar widget used in Drupal has gone
through a couple iterations before settling on the official jQueryUI
datepicker codebase.

This is nearly 100% of the code required to setup two date-picker form fields

<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery/jquery-1.2.1.min.js"></script>
<!-- two lines for the datepicker http://dev.jquery.com/browser/trunk/ui  -->
<style type="text/css">@import
url(/js/jquery-ui/datepicker/ui.datepicker.css);</style>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="/js/jquery-ui/datepicker/ui.datepicker.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function(){
    // set our date pickers, using ISO format dates
    $('#db').datepicker({ dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' });
    $('#de').datepicker({ dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' });
});
</head>
<body>
<form><input id="db" /><input id="de" /> </form>
</body>


See http://marcgrabanski.com/code/ui-datepicker/
The latest is v3 http://marcgrabanski.com/article/82/jQuery-UI-Datepicker-v3
And the wrapper for Drupal is at http://drupal.org/project/jquery_calendar

-- 
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

From cliff at pinestream.com  Tue Dec 18 07:34:03 2007
From: cliff at pinestream.com (Cliff Hirsch)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:34:03 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Dhtml calendar popup suggestions
In-Reply-To: <5e2aaca40712172103q71748a50r3921caf6f7f2e6e4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C38D286B.AE09%cliff@pinestream.com>

On 12/18/07 12:03 AM, "Greg Rundlett" <greg.rundlett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm very late on this thread, however if you've ever heard of jQuery,
> (or Drupal), (or Symfony), then you should check out the jQueryUI
> project for the 'datepicker' component (jQuery, and jQueryUI elements
> are used in Drupal)  The calendar widget used in Drupal has gone
> through a couple iterations before settling on the official jQueryUI
> datepicker codebase.
> 

This is actually the calendar I ended up using. There was one browser
compatibility issue with css that was easily resolved. Otherwise, it's
pretty slick. 



From mwithington at PLMresearch.com  Thu Dec 27 19:46:46 2007
From: mwithington at PLMresearch.com (Mark Withington)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:46:46 -0500
Subject: [Bostonphptalk] Event details changed: BostonPHP January User
	Group:: Developing, pricing and delivering OSS applicati
In-Reply-To: <df2f30110712271630g6abdc2dco680e7c15c8d507be@mail.gmail.com>
References: <25961114.1197398939366.JavaMail.root@stage.meetup.com>
	<df2f30110712271630g6abdc2dco680e7c15c8d507be@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <491198290712271646h62417960vdc95c96bba3eb008@mail.gmail.com>

I would suggest posting this on the meetup message board and send this out
to bostonphptalk at bostonphp.org (the BostonPHP mailing list).  You'll get a
much better response.  You might also want to try the NY PHP mailing list
too.

Good luck,

On Dec 27, 2007 7:30 PM, Syed Adil Hussain <writetoadil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark, can you please send this query out to the group?
>
> Can anyone recommend open-source scheduling software that we can use
> on our website? We want it to be very simple, just like Apple.com's
> scheduling system for its Genius Bar technicians. Our functional need
> is similar to Apple's, where there are a couple of employees who are
> available during certain hours, and users they don't know make
> appointments to see the technicians.
>
> Our requirements:
> -Users enter their time zone
> -They see some type of calendar, which shows them which times are
> available
> -They select a time, and receive an email confirmation
> -The admin also receives an email
> -The user shouldn't be able to edit other appointments, only make new
> ones.
> -Preferable that user only sees limited information, if any, about
> other appointments
> -We don't want to spend much time customizing this software
>
> Options:
> -The best option we have found so far is PHPScheduleIt. This software
> provides all the functionality we need, but is a bit difficult to use.
> -Preferable not to use another site (e.g. Google Calendar) where users
> have to login, because this is cumbersome and
> decidedly unprofessional... we would have to provide one
> login/password for all users. Also, Google Calendar provides no option
> to allow a user to add new events, but not edit existing
> events.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2007 1:48 PM, Mark Withington <info at meetup.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Your Organizer, Mark Withington, sent the following message to some
> members
> > of Boston PHP Meetup:
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >  I've changed the event day from Wednesday 1/9/08 to Thursday 1/10/08
> due to
> > schedule conflicts. For more details, see the full listing:
> > http://php.meetup.com/29/calendar/6864040/
> >
> > When: Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 6:30 PM
> >
> > Where: IBM/Lotus
> > 1 Rogers Street
> > Cambridge, MA 02142
> > 508-801-0181
> >
> > If the changes affect your plans to attend, please take a moment to
> update
> > your RSVP. (You can RSVP 'No' or 'Maybe' as well as 'Yes'.)
> >
> > You can always get in touch with me through the 'Contact Organizer'
> feature
> > on the Meetup.com website: http://php.meetup.com/29/suggestion/
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > To visit Boston PHP Meetup, go here:
> >  http://php.meetup.com/29/
> >
> > If you'd like to take part in a discussion, your Organizer also posted
> this
> > message to your Group's Message Boards:
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-- 
Mark

--------------------------
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