Andreas Loppnow

I just found a neat piece of code I want to share.

If you want to let your client embed youtube videos and don’t want to make it to complicated for them make them a Backend textfield where they past the Video URL.

With this call $video = json_decode(file_get_contents(sprintf(‘http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=%s&format=json’, urlencode($url)))), you get an object congaing most info you will need about the Video.

$video->html gives you the embed code, $video->title, you guessed it,  the title.

Last week I started a new job as wordpress/ PHP developer at Integra Strategic. It is awesome so far. A small (now) 3 person company.
I’m already working on 2 brand new wordpress projects and it is going along quite nicely

I ran into the Problem that I had to write a PHP program that generates individual variable names for objects (a script to create an ics file).
I’m getting the events from the Database and then I use a for loop to create the object for each event.

the PHP code


//get data from DB
for($i = 0; $i < $count_events; $i++){
...
${vevent.$i} = & $v->newComponent( "vevent" );
${vevent.$i}->setProperty( "dtstart", $start);
${vevent.$i}->setProperty( "dtend", $end);
...
}


${vevent.$i} creates a new name every time the program runs trough the for loop, adding the counter to the variable name.

I used this code for a calendar project I was working on. I needed to generate individual variable names in a for loop to creat an [[ics]] file. The events are stored in a MySQL Database. I’m using this little Script to generate the ics file. This file can be imported into Google Calendar or any other Calendar Program.