Category: Wordpress

Making YouTube Thumbnail as Post Thumbnail in WordPress


Creating video thumbnail can be tricky on WordPress. You will need to add new meta on your post so that the post writer can insert the video ID and update the whole post. This time the key of the post meta that I used is video_id. Have a look on the code! 😀

function store_vid_info($post_id){
    if(($_POST['post_status'] == 'publish') && (in_category('video', $post_id))) {
        $vid_id = get_post_meta($post_id, 'video_id'); /* needed to take meta data. The return will be in array */
        $url = "https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/" . $vid_id[0] . "?v=2&alt=jsonc";

        $content = json_decode(file_get_contents($url)); /* If you use curl, then the header will be overrode and result in error. */

        $post = array(
            'ID' => $post_id,
            'post_content' => "" /* This line will insert the video in iframe to the post content */
        );

        /**
         * This will update the post meta (if exist in case of editing post) and will add it.
         * You can change the code to really insert the YouTube thumbnail into your WP thumbnail.
         * I add  the image to a new meta because I'm afraid the theme did not support post thumbnail.
         * If it is, then feel free to change to code.
         */
        if (!update_post_meta($post_id, '_video_thumb', $content->data->thumbnail->hqDefault))
            add_post_meta($post_id, '_video_thumb', $content->data->thumbnail->hqDefault);

        wp_update_post($post);
    }
}

add_action('publish_post','store_vid_info'); /* This will hook the function that we have just made to WordPress publish */

Feel free to give comments and feedback 🙂

File Uploading for CKEditor using CodeIgniter


I know, I know that I haven’t uploaded the source code of my simple project, Blog Manager, yet to github. I have already created the repository, though. This is just a notification update on Blog Manager.

As my boss really planned to make it a wordpress like text editor when adding a post, so I work on CKEditor, a great editor I must say, but quite tiring to create the file browser (it’s just me I think). For now, I have also added the Blog Manager category on this blog, Various Talks.

AS for your information, to create simple upload dialog on CKEditor, you can use the code chunk below for PHP.

PS. I was inspired by this post. So I lazily changed it for CodeIgniter. Yeah because I’d rather change than rethink about the algorithm and read a long example. LOL

public function addphoto($blogID){
	$this->load->model('BlogModel'); // the model that communicate with blog

	$config['upload_path'] = './uploads/';
	$config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|jpeg|png';
	$config['overwrite'] = FALSE;
	$this->load->library('upload');


	$funcNum = $this->input->get('CKEditorFuncNum'); //$_GET['CKEditorFuncNum']
	$this->upload->initialize($config);
		
	if (!$this->upload->do_upload('upload')){ // upload the file, 'upload' is the name of the field from CKEditor
		 // failed upload
		$message = "Upload failed on blog manager server.";
		$url = '';
	
	}else{ // success copy to wp server
		$upload_result = base_url() . 'uploads/'. $this->upload->data()['file_name'];
		$upload_name = $this->upload->data()['file_name'];

		// after finished uploading, it will receive a URL
		$url = $this->BlogModel->UploadImage($blogID, $upload_result, $upload_name); 

		$message = 'Upload success!';
	}
	echo "<script type='text/javascript'>window.parent.CKEDITOR.tools.callFunction($funcNum, '$url', '$message');</script>";
}

Feel free to notify me if you’re interested in this.

Be free to visit it in here!

Blog Manager


So, I was working on this PHP project as I have told you earlier in my post earlier.

It was called as Blog Manager. It is not really complete. I planned to put it in my git repository. I also created the wordpress plugin so that my app can operate well with WordPress.

After I reach to put both Blog Manager web app and Blog Manager WordPress plugin in my git repo, I will continue to add WP tags in the Blog Manager, and extend it to other PHP CMS like Joomla.

If you are interested, come to the git repository. 🙂

Be free to visit it in here!

PHP yeay!


Hello world!

Well, I am back to PHP! After a long time I haven’t used this, I am back again to PHP! So, I am working on a WordPress plugin.

It will allow the user to post through another web. Well, it is intended for a digital agencies, not for really commercial use. I will keep posting on it as the project grows.

C ya!

PS. Any suggestion about flexible and easy to use ASP.NET CMS is most welcome 😀