This might be the funniest HTML joke I?ve ever seen. Of course you know the i tag has been deprecated in XHTML.

repost from http://joeschmitt.tumblr.com/post/391725635/via-blueyesbrunet-this-might-be-the-funniest

Magento gives the following code snippet on their site, but I could not get it to work – souring the message boards didn’t really help either.  I am not sure if something was off with my installation instance or what.

After a bunch of trial and error – scouring the web etc – i was finally able to make a connection with the following script

<?php
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
define("XMLRPC_DEBUG", 1);

require_once('../app/Mage.php');
$client = new Zend_XmlRpc_Client('http://www.domain.com/api/xmlrpc');

// If somestuff requires api authentification, we should get session token
$session = $client->call('login', array('user', 'key'));

echo "<pre>";
print_r($session);
echo "</pre>";

// If you don't need the session anymore
$client->call('endSession', array($session));
?>

one strange thing to note is the path to the API – with a trailing slash, i could not get this to work…’

I hope that this helps someone else out.

Warning: mysql_error(): X is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in (path) on line Y

(Warning: mysql_error(): 9 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/vhosts/XXX/httpdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 282)

i found the solution here and thought that i might post the fix

http://scripts.indisguise.org/2007/04/05/using-non-plugin-third-party-scripts-with-wordpress-212/

For quite a while now I have been using the following script to show sub navigation on WordPress Sidebars. It utilizes the built in wp_list_pages function to show parent and child relationships on a sidebar (or where ever you choose to use it for that matter).

<?php

if($post->post_parent)
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0");
else $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0"); if ($children) { ?>  <ul> <?php echo $children; ?> </ul> <?php } ?>

I like that it is simple, and that it can be re-written to show items only if they are child pages of a specific parent, ie:

<?php
// find out what the top level page is

global $post;
if($post->post_parent) $parentPG = $post->post_parent; // page is a child
else $parentPG = $post->ID; // page has children
?>

<?php

// marketing

if($parentPG==7){

// show items if the parent id is 7
}elseif($parentPG==8){
// show items if the parent id is 8
}
?>

This works great when you only need to make it work with parent and child pages. Recently, however, I had the need to utilize this type of functionality on a project that required pages 3 levels deep (grandchildren?). After a bit of Googling, and searching through the WordPress Codex I realized that I was going to have to “roll my own” on this one. So here you go – there are probably better ways of doing this. If you know of one please let me know, but maybe this will help someone else searching for “wordpress list grandchildren”

<?php
// find out what the top level page is
global $post;
if($post->post_parent){
$parentPG = $post->post_parent; // page is a child

// check for grand children
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `".$wpdb->prefix."posts` WHERE ID=$parentPG";
$data = $wpdb->get_results($sql,ARRAY_A);

if(!empty($data[0][post_parent])) $parentPG=$data[0][post_parent];
}
else $parentPG = $post->ID; // page has children
?>

<?php

// marketing
if($parentPG==7){
// show stuff for parent 7
}elseif($parentPG==8){
// show stuff for parent 8
}
?>

Great Job!

Way to go WordPress.

sounds cool – i can hardly wait.

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So stay tuned…i will let you know when 2.5 decides to grace us with its presence.