Comments on: recent work: echoes of empires http://www.jon22.net/recent-work-echoes-of-empires/ The Website of Jonathan Dobres Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sociallytangent http://www.jon22.net/recent-work-echoes-of-empires/comment-page-1/#comment-5545 sociallytangent Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:53:05 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=734#comment-5545 Yeah, I didn't see the code tag until too late -- I probably could've used URL encoding, too. Not permitting square brackets, though, is just inexcusable laziness on WP's part. On the upside, you're getting lots of comments! For anyone else that had further questions about adding the above PHP code to .html files, create a .htaccess file in the same directory with this code: <code><Files *.html> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files></code> (I'm sure this won't work in WP either, but I'll never pass up a chance to further embarrass myself!) Yeah, I didn’t see the code tag until too late — I probably could’ve used URL encoding, too. Not permitting square brackets, though, is just inexcusable laziness on WP’s part. On the upside, you’re getting lots of comments!

For anyone else that had further questions about adding the above PHP code to .html files, create a .htaccess file in the same directory with this code:

<Files *.html>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

(I’m sure this won’t work in WP either, but I’ll never pass up a chance to further embarrass myself!)

]]> By: Jonathan Dobres http://www.jon22.net/recent-work-echoes-of-empires/comment-page-1/#comment-5542 Jonathan Dobres Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:44:10 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=734#comment-5542 Sociallytanget: I agree that the ALA solution comes off a bit clunky, particularly since it has to re-request the image with every page load. Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely have to try it out. Also, did you notice that you can use the <code> tag? Makes writing things like... <code>< ? php print "<img src=\"images/img" . rand(1,5) . ".jpg\" alt=\"Header image\" />"; ?></code> ...way easier. Granted, you also have to substitute character codes for actual greater than and less than symbols, but it works, with a minimum of fuss. Sociallytanget: I agree that the ALA solution comes off a bit clunky, particularly since it has to re-request the image with every page load. Thanks for the tip. I’ll definitely have to try it out.

Also, did you notice that you can use the <code> tag? Makes writing things like…

< ? php print "<img src=\"images/img" . rand(1,5) . ".jpg\" alt=\"Header image\" />"; ?>

…way easier. Granted, you also have to substitute character codes for actual greater than and less than symbols, but it works, with a minimum of fuss.

]]> By: sociallytangent http://www.jon22.net/recent-work-echoes-of-empires/comment-page-1/#comment-5540 sociallytangent Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:52:07 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=734#comment-5540 I give up! I give up!

]]> By: sociallytangent http://www.jon22.net/recent-work-echoes-of-empires/comment-page-1/#comment-5539 sociallytangent Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:51:50 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=734#comment-5539 Wordpress seriously fails on parsing inset HTML. Replace the square brackets with angled. WordPress seriously fails on parsing inset HTML.

Replace the square brackets with angled.

]]> By: sociallytangent http://www.jon22.net/recent-work-echoes-of-empires/comment-page-1/#comment-5538 sociallytangent Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:50:26 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=734#comment-5538 Trying again with HTML entities! Trying again with HTML entities!

]]> By: sociallytangent http://www.jon22.net/recent-work-echoes-of-empires/comment-page-1/#comment-5537 sociallytangent Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:49:07 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=734#comment-5537 Looks good. I like the changes to the ankh symbol since I last saw it. That header script, though, is really overkill -- seriously, creating and destroying a copy of an image in the HTTP header? Just upload the images with sequential filenames (img1.jpg, img2.jpg, etc.) and shrink the PHP down to one line: <? php print ""; ?> I mean, I'm sure it was a great academic exercise for an ALA article, but Dreamhost supports inline PHP (so there's not much point in making it external) and it's kinda silly to be using a huge script like that for such a simple task. Looks good. I like the changes to the ankh symbol since I last saw it.

That header script, though, is really overkill — seriously, creating and destroying a copy of an image in the HTTP header? Just upload the images with sequential filenames (img1.jpg, img2.jpg, etc.) and shrink the PHP down to one line:

<? php print “”; ?>

I mean, I’m sure it was a great academic exercise for an ALA article, but Dreamhost supports inline PHP (so there’s not much point in making it external) and it’s kinda silly to be using a huge script like that for such a simple task.

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