[wp-hackers] blog helper applet (was: wp-mail major update)

[Brian Meidell Andersen]

Ok, my site is back up, so you can see it in action:
http://www.meidell.dk/bloghelper/

Remember you need Java 1.4.

I would like to make this in to a plugin for the wordpress admin 
interface at some point.

/Brian

Brian Meidell Andersen wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> One of the features I brought from my own blog system, and which I 
> will hopefully get into plugin form some time in the future is an 
> applet I made called BlogHelper.
> As I wrote this email, I just discovered that it's broken on my site 
> after I migrated to wordpress, and furthermore the server is down so I 
> can't fix it. So I can't offer to demonstrate just now, but I can 
> explain it.
>
> It's an applet that gives you a little canvas onto which you can drag 
> and drop or paste images from other webpages or whatever. It then 
> shows up on the canvas and lets you crop it and press "save".
> This saves it on the server. Javascript can then get the URL for the 
> newly stored image, create an IMG tag and stick it in your authoring 
> window.
> I've used the applet myself for some months and I can honestly say 
> that it's really handy for slapping little images in your entries.
>
> It has some issues, but I am working on the next version of it which 
> will fix some of the flaws it has right now. But even in it's current 
> form it's quite useful.
>
> As soon as my server is alive and I can fix the page up so the applet 
> can run, I'll show you.
> There is the one caveat that it requires the blog author to have Java 
> 1.4 on his or her machine to use it, but as long as the guests don't 
> need it, I don't see that as a big problem.
>
> /Brian
>
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>> Hiya guys
>>     Started using Wordpress a few days ago and love the clean 
>> look/design/code.  But it got me thinking about photos, I love photos 
>> but hate having to upload stuff and linking to it (CMS style).  In 
>> fact I'm so lazy, I decided to have a hack at wp-mail.php
>> What I ended up doing was replacing most of the code in wp-mail.php 
>> for wordpress 1.2, didn't anticipate that when I first started but 
>> the results are nice.
>>
>> This hack is a 'drop in' replacement for the current wp-mail.php. It 
>> uses pear as a mime compliant email 'decoder'.  What's cool is that 
>> you can attach images inline in your email messages and they'll be 
>> shown as an image in your wordpress article.  It does this by 
>> decoding the image attachments and writing them to 'wp-photos' 
>> directory (not in default wp install).
>>
>> It has all the abilities of the current wp-mail.php plus:
>>     - Allows image attachments (posts inline)
>>     - Checks if user email address is in the database (otherwise 
>> discards message)
>>     - Allows other file attachments (zip's, exe's, etc)
>>     - Fairly good cleaner for removing excessive line breaks
>>
>> I'm planning on more updates, but would love to see this update 
>> included in future wordpress releases.  Would be happy to maintain it 
>> to, I'm fairly sure it complies with most of the coding guidelines 
>> I've read on the wordpress website.
>>
>> To install you grab the zip file.
>> - -  Drop the two files (wp-mail.php & mailmimedecode.php) into a 
>> wordpress 1.2 root directory
>> - - Create the directories 'wp-photos'  and 'wp-filez' in the 
>> wordpress root directory(with writing permissions (probably 0777).
>>     
>> You can grab a copy here: http://blade.lansmash.com
>>
>> Let me know what you guys think!
>> John B. Hewitt
>> blade.lansmash.com
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