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

[Carthik Sharma]

Ah! that's where I remember you from. you had posted regarding this a
long time ago at the forums, and I sort of was thinking, when we we at
#wordpress as to why I thought your name sounded familiar. :)


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:00:16 +0200, Brian Meidell Andersen
<brian at mindflow.dk> wrote:
> 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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