[wp-hackers] wp-hackers Digest, Vol 110, Issue 15

Dulanga Sashika wadsashika at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 09:41:25 UTC 2014


Hi,
Thank you very much Madalin Ignisca for your quick reply. I downloaded the
code from SVN repository and built it. Now I started to go through the
source code and get an idea about that. I hope there will be more help when
I neded.

Thank you.


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>    1. Re: Wordpress seems to serialize image_meta of a featured
>       image incorrectly (Otto)
>    2. Downloading Source code and configuring for development
>       (Dulanga Sashika)
>    3. Re: Downloading Source code and configuring for   development
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> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 01:00:53 -0600
> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Wordpress seems to serialize image_meta of a
>         featured image incorrectly
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> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Jeff Tchang <jeff.tchang at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Noticing some odd behavior when I upload an image with meta information.
> > One of the fields has "? 2013".
> >
> > When it is serialized to the database I see:
> >
> > s:7:"? 2013";
> >
> > When I do this in vanilla php:
> >
> > $a = chr(169) . " 2013";
> > echo serialize($a);
> >
> > I get
> >
> > s:6:"? 2013";
> >
> > which seems like the correct serialization. Has anyone run into this
> before?
> >
>
>
> You're comparing different character sets.
>
> In ASCII, the copyright symbol is the character with code 0xA9.
>
> In UTF-8, the copyright symbol is the character with code 0xC2 0xA9.
>
> That extra byte is relevant to the serialization that you're seeing.
>
> -Otto
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 13:27:45 +0530
> From: Dulanga Sashika <wadsashika at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] Downloading Source code and configuring for
>         development
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> Hi all,
> I am really interested in Wordpress and I need to be a part of the
> Wordpress family. I looked at the project ideas of Gsoc 2014 which you have
> given and I am interested in the "Group Theme/Plugin Combo" project. I
> tried to download the source code and configure it in my computer to get a
> better idea about the wordpress. But I couldn't do it properly. Do I need
> to use any specific IDE to develop in this project? How can I properly
> download this project and configure it for development? I really appreciate
> if you can give instructions about that.
>
> Thank You
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> W. A. Dulanga Sashika,
> Undergraduate Student,
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
> University of Moratuwa.
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:24:14 +0200
> From: Madalin Ignisca <madalin.ignisca at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Downloading Source code and configuring for
>         development
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> There isn't a best "recipe" for development with WordPress.
>
> Some people prefer classic ways like code editors, text/console: vim, nano;
> gui: sublime-text, brackets, notepad++, gedit, komodo edit etc.
>
> Others use full IDEs like Eclipse, Aptana, Zend Studio, Netbeans, PHPStorm
> etc.
>
> If you prefer an IDE, make a new project out of the base directory of your
> local WordPress installation and follow the normal way of building new
> plugins or themes. If you're into working on the core, then dig more from
> here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress.
>
> Something I prefer:
>
> I use Puphpet (https://puphpet.com/) to generate some startup scripts and
> configs for virtual machines used for php projects (one for mysql/mariadb
> and several others for different versions of php, testing with nginx and
> apache etc.) - that offered me an environment easier to maintain and 100%
> identical between my desktop and my laptop so I can work anywhere.
>
> I have several WordPress installations that are linked (not possible under
> Windows, you need to make them in the shared folder of a machine and can't
> link between them, Windows doesn't supports soft linking) to the shared
> folders of this machines and serve for a few projects. This way I'm working
> in Netbeans (my preferred IDE) with only a few projects opened, but I'm
> able to test on multiple configurations much faster.
>
> Also the virtual machines are configured from start to support Xdebug and
> debugging it's so simple this way.
>
> For version control I use git, that also has subversion capability and I
> don't have to learn two different tools for the same scope. This helps me a
> lot and also helps me collaborate very easy with other people on some of
> the projects.
>
> So, best is you should "build" your preferred development environment based
> on how you're working with Web/PHP projects, as it's similar to other CMS's
> or PHP frameworks (I also use it for Symfony and Drupal identical).
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Dulanga Sashika <wadsashika at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am really interested in Wordpress and I need to be a part of the
> > Wordpress family. I looked at the project ideas of Gsoc 2014 which you
> have
> > given and I am interested in the "Group Theme/Plugin Combo" project. I
> > tried to download the source code and configure it in my computer to get
> a
> > better idea about the wordpress. But I couldn't do it properly. Do I need
> > to use any specific IDE to develop in this project? How can I properly
> > download this project and configure it for development? I really
> appreciate
> > if you can give instructions about that.
> >
> > Thank You
> > Yours Sincerely,
> >
> > W. A. Dulanga Sashika,
> > Undergraduate Student,
> > Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
> > University of Moratuwa.
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>
> --
> *Madalin Ignisca*
> *web developer*
> http://imadalin.ro/
>
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W. A. Dulanga Sashika,
Undergraduate Student,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Moratuwa.


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