Archive for the ‘Web’ category

iTunes U Authentication Class

September 21st, 2007

Aaron Axelsen’s iTunes U autentication class written in PHP is now installable through UNL’s local PEAR channel.

pear channel-discover pear.unl.edu
pear install unl/UNL_iTunesU-beta

The class is nearly identical except the constructor now accepts an associative array of options to set for the class, and added support for PEAR packages if PHP doesn’t have curl or hash extensions.

Our university is just getting started with iTunes U and authentication is the first step – big thanks to Aaron @ UWW for porting Apple’s perl connection script to PHP.

Commenting Re-enabled / Salty_Services_Akismet

March 26th, 2007

Commenting on the blog has been re-enabled now that I’ve had time to code in Akismet spam checking.

The process was fairly simple, I utilized existing code from Alex Potsides @ http://www.achingbrain.net/, and pearified the code into a package Salty_Services_Akismet which is now a dependency on the saltybeagle.com code.

Hooray for PEAR packages.

I’m gonna check with Alex and see if he’s considering adding his package to PEAR under Services_Akismet… there would only be minor coding standards changes, a look into how he uses the sockets to connect to akismet, and a re-license from GPL. (A bit of work :-) )

I’ll also note that Tobias Schlitt has Akismet trackback checking already built in to Services_Trackback, but as of yet I don’t think there’s an Akismet comment spam checker inside PEAR.