Recently I had a problem that, in spite of many “support leads” on other sites, was hard to figure out. All I wanted to do was reference as GET parameter in a URL as a variable in Typoscript. After many failed attempts, I found a solution to my problem. So, for future reference, and for all others who may be struggling with this problem, here is a solution.
Sometimes it is helpful, mainly to avoid broken links, to make sure your html files (with a .htm or .html extension) can parse PHP. On GoDaddy hosting, this threw me for a loop.
I’m very happy to see my post “Organizing a Higher-Ed Online Media Stream” on .eduGuru. Thank you to Kyle James for letting me guest write for one of the best .edu blogs on the internet!
An earlier post of mine provides a fairly good example of a PHP script that renames a file as you upload it to a server. In this post, I’ve decided to take another look at that type of script and make it easier to use. I’m going to break the code you’ll need into two parts: the HTML and the PHP.
If you ever sit down to try and parse Google calendar XML data in Actionscript (specifically AS3), you’ll find that there is a lot of misinformation on the web, including many poor, broken examples of code. I’d like to try and demystify some of the problems behind parsing Google calendar XML by showing how it is done the right way.