By Nitin on May 8, 2010
I discussed a little about URL encoding in my recent post Facebook: Bug with URL encoding, although it seems like the bug still exists. In this post I will discuss “how to encode a given URL before accessing it using CURL or fsockopen”. The problem with URLs is that they might contain certain disallowed characters [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged encoding, facebook, php, URL
By Nitin on May 3, 2010
We visit and revisit web pages. You will find that more than 60% of your web visits are actually revisits of some sort. But web browsers support for such revisitations is limited to bookmarks, history list, URL auto-completion and back button. Here are a few history tools which can greatly improve your experience during web [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged addons, extensions, firefox, history
By Nitin on April 25, 2010
Some of the “quotes” I like from South Park, by Chef. Disclaimer: The following contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone. Episode 401 Chef: Well look at you cute little crackers with your money and your fancy clothes and your cell phones. It’s almost like you were… [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged chef, fun, south park
By Nitin on March 12, 2010
Today, while I was working on the URL encoding for the recently released Facebook-style Links module, I realized a bug with Link Attachments feature on Facebook. Before I explain, let us reproduce it: Try to attach the following link on Facebook: http://google.com/search?q=blenders%26pride. This URL actually queries Google for ‘blenders&pride’. Facebook converts/encodes the above URL to [...]
Posted in Drupal, Nitin's Blog | Tagged bug, encoding, facebook, fbsl
By Nitin on March 6, 2010
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) was released on 3rd March, and currently supports the following features: Automatically downloads and attaches image to the node created by Feeds module. Configurable XPath of the desired image location on the webpage of the feed item on per feed basis (using element’s id or CSS class). Support for FileField Paths module. [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, feeds, fig, imagegrabber, tutorial
By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Facebook-style Links (FBSL) provides the ability for users to attach and submit links along with their Facebook-style Statuses. Combined with Facebook-style Statuses (FBSS), the FBSL module provides an attach link form that loads via AHAH. Users can then attach a link with an (optional) thumbnail, title and description to their status. In the nutshell, it [...]
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, fbsl, fbss, module