The Vcard.php Library Code (applications/library/Vcard.php) :

Then we can use it on a controller function like this:

The vcard function on the controller calls the library Vcard.php and then use the constructor, for that you have to arrange an array of COMMON VALUES for, we can use the Troy example for this:

You can customize the $datavcard array to suit your contact information and then passit to the constructor like the function before.

I hope this would be quite enough for this to get work on export vCards.

Thanks for your comments,

Carlos

PS. The Codeigniter Wiki for this library is here: vCard Library

I was trying to make use of the email library on codeigniter, and found some issues on the Gmail config and authentication errors, then after making my own I have made a custom configuration that works fine.

1. Create this CONSTANTS on config/constanst.php

define('MAIL_PROT', 'smtp');
define('SITE_ADMIN', 'Webmaster');
define('SITE_EMAIL', 'gmail.user@gmail.com');
define('SMTP_HOST', 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com');
define('SMTP_USER', 'gmail.user@gmail.com');
define('SMTP_PASS', 'somepassword');
define('SMTP_PORT', 465);
define('MAIL_TYPE', 'html');
define('MAIL_CHARSET', 'utf-8');

2. Then create a smtp config function on a email_model for example:

	function smtpconfig()
	{
			$config = array();
			//$config = $this->config->item('email');
			$config = Array(
			    'protocol' => MAIL_PROT,
			    'smtp_host' => SMTP_HOST,
			    'smtp_port' => SMTP_PORT,
			    'smtp_user' => SMTP_USER,
			    'smtp_pass' => SMTP_PASS,
			    'smtp_timeout' => 30,
			    'mailtype'  => MAIL_TYPE
			);
			//var_dump($config);

			$this->load->library('email', $config);
			$this->email->clear();
			$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
	}

3. Finally we can use BOTH in a test function like:

function emailtest()
{
		$this->smtpconfig();
                $this->email->from(SITE_EMAIL, SITE_ADMIN);
		$this->email->to('receiver.user@gmail.com');

		$this->email->subject('CodeIgniter & Gmail Rules !! ');
		$this->email->message('Hello Gmail World');

		if (!$this->email->send())
		    show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
		else
			echo 'Your e-mail has been sent!';
}

I hope this would be useful.

Thanks for your feedback,

Carlos

Thanks to Jeffrey Way for this great article, I just want to share to the world (and thanks Peter Hanson for this also)...

30 HTML Best Practices

30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners

I hope it would be useful for all the Web  developers.

Carlos

I read about the SimpleXML library from this blog SimpleXML Library, but this time, I mafe some changes to make the MVC concepts on the table view and xmltest controller best fit.

First we load the Simplexml library to applications/library on codeigniter:

result="";
	$this->evalCode="";
	$values="";
	$encoding = 'UTF-8';
	$parser = xml_parser_create($encoding);
	xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0);
	xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1);
	$ok = xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $values);
	if (!$ok) {
		$errmsg = sprintf("XML parse error %d '%s' at line %d, column %d (byte index %d)",
		xml_get_error_code($parser),
		xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)),
		xml_get_current_line_number($parser),
		xml_get_current_column_number($parser),
		xml_get_current_byte_index($parser));
	}

	xml_parser_free($parser);
	return $this->xml_reorganize($values);
	}

	function xml_reorganize($array)
	{

		$count = count($array);
		$repeat = $this->xml_tags($array);
		$repeatedone = false;
		$tags = array();
		$k = 0;
		for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
			switch ($array[$i]['type']) {
				case 'open':
					array_push($tags, $array[$i]['tag']);
					if ($i > 0 && ($array[$i]['tag'] == $array[$i-1]['tag']) && ($array[$i-1]['type'] == 'close'))
					$k++;
					if (isset($array[$i]['value']) && ($array[$i]['value'] || !$this->skip_empty_values)) {
						array_push($tags, '@content');
						$this->array_insert(count($tags), $tags, $array[$i]['value'], "open");
						array_pop($tags);
					}

					if (in_array($array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level'], $repeat)) {
						if (($repeatedone == $array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level']) && ($repeatedone)) {
							array_push($tags, strval($k++));
						} else {
							$repeatedone = $array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level'];
							array_push($tags, strval($k));
						}
					}

					if (isset($array[$i]['attributes']) && $array[$i]['attributes'] && $array[$i]['level'] != $this->ignore_level) {
						array_push($tags, '@attributes');
						foreach ($array[$i]['attributes'] as $attrkey => $attr) {
							array_push($tags, $attrkey);
							$this->array_insert(count($tags), $tags, $attr, "open");
							array_pop($tags);
						}
						array_pop($tags);
					}
					break;

				case 'close':
					array_pop($tags);
					if (in_array($array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level'], $repeat)) {
						if ($repeatedone == $array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level']) {
							array_pop($tags);
						} else {
							$repeatedone = $array[$i + 1]['tag'] . $array[$i + 1]['level'];
							array_pop($tags);
						}
					}
					break;

				case 'complete':
					array_push($tags, $array[$i]['tag']);
					if (in_array($array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level'], $repeat)) {
						if ($repeatedone == $array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level'] && $repeatedone) {
							array_push($tags, strval($k));
						} else {
							$repeatedone = $array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level'];
							array_push($tags, strval($k));
						}
					}

					if (isset($array[$i]['value']) && ($array[$i]['value'] || !$this->skip_empty_values)) {
						if (isset($array[$i]['attributes']) && $array[$i]['attributes']) {
							array_push($tags, '@content');
							$this->array_insert(count($tags), $tags, $array[$i]['value'], "complete");
							array_pop($tags);
						} else {
							$this->array_insert(count($tags), $tags, $array[$i]['value'], "complete");
						}
					}

					if (isset($array[$i]['attributes']) && $array[$i]['attributes']) {
						array_push($tags, '@attributes');
						foreach ($array[$i]['attributes'] as $attrkey => $attr) {
							array_push($tags, $attrkey);
							$this->array_insert(count($tags), $tags, $attr, "complete");
							array_pop($tags);
						}
						array_pop($tags);
					}

					if (in_array($array[$i]['tag'] . $array[$i]['level'], $repeat)) {
						array_pop($tags);
						$k++;
					}

					array_pop($tags);
					break;
			}
		}
		eval($this->evalCode);
		$last = $this->array_reindex($this->result);
		return $last;
	}	

	function array_insert($level, $tags, $value, $type)
	{
		$temp = '';
		for ($c = $this->ignore_level + 1; $c < $level + 1; $c++) {
			if (isset($tags[$c]) && (is_numeric(trim($tags[$c])) || trim($tags[$c]))) {
				if (is_numeric($tags[$c])) {
					$temp .= '[' . $tags[$c] . ']';
				} else {
					$temp .= '["' . $tags[$c] . '"]';
				}
			}
		}
		$this->evalCode .= '$this->result' . $temp . "=\"" . addslashes($value) . "\";//(" . $type . ")\n";
		#echo $code. "\n";
	}

	/**
	 * Define the repeated tags in XML file so we can set an index
	 *
	 * @param array $array
	 * @return array
	 */
	function xml_tags($array)
	{	$repeats_temp = array();
	$repeats_count = array();
	$repeats = array();

	if (is_array($array)) {
		$n = count($array) - 1;
		for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
			$idn = $array[$i]['tag'].$array[$i]['level'];
			if(in_array($idn,$repeats_temp)){
				$repeats_count[array_search($idn,$repeats_temp)]+=1;
			}else{
				array_push($repeats_temp,$idn);
				$repeats_count[array_search($idn,$repeats_temp)]=1;
			}
		}
	}
	$n = count($repeats_count);
	for($i=0;$i<$n;$i++){
		if($repeats_count[$i]>1){
			array_push($repeats,$repeats_temp[$i]);
		}
	}
	unset($repeats_temp);
	unset($repeats_count);
	return array_unique($repeats);
	}

	/**
	 * Converts Array Variable to Object Variable
	 *
	 * @param array $arg_array
	 * @return $tmp
	 */
	function array2object ($arg_array)
	{

		if (is_array($arg_array)) {
			$keys = array_keys($arg_array);
			if(!is_numeric($keys[0])) $tmp = new Xml;
			foreach ($keys as $key) {
				if (is_numeric($key)) $has_number = true;
				if (is_string($key)) $has_string = true;
			}
			if (isset($has_number) and !isset($has_string)) {
				foreach ($arg_array as $key => $value) {
					$tmp[] = $this->array2object($value);
				}
			} elseif (isset($has_string)) {
				foreach ($arg_array as $key => $value) {
					if (is_string($key))
					$tmp->$key = $this->array2object($value);
				}
			}
		} elseif (is_object($arg_array)) {
			foreach ($arg_array as $key => $value) {
				if (is_array($value) or is_object($value))
				$tmp->$key = $this->array2object($value);
				else
				$tmp->$key = $value;
			}
		} else {
			$tmp = $arg_array;
		}
		return $tmp; //return the object
	}

	/**
	 * Reindexes the whole array with ascending numbers
	 *
	 * @param array $array
	 * @return array
	 */
	function array_reindex($array)
	{
		if (is_array($array)) {
			if(count($array) == 1 && isset($array[0])) {
			//if(count($array) == 1 && $array[0]){
				return $this->array_reindex($array[0]);
			}else{
				foreach($array as $keys => $items) {
					if (is_array($items)) {
						if (is_numeric($keys)) {
							$array[$keys] = $this->array_reindex($items);
						} else {
							$array[$keys] = $this->array_reindex(array_merge(array(), $items));
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}
		return $array;
	}
}
?>

The XML file:

	
		1
		iPhone
300
	

	
		2
		iMac
2500
	

	
		3
		MacBook Pro
2000
	

	
		4
		iTouch
150
	

	
		5
		Wii
1250
	

	
		6
		Time Capsule
1000
	

	
		7
		Apple TV
800
	

The xmltest.php controller for codeigniter (applications/controller/xmltest.php):

load->library('parser');
		$this->load->library('simplexml');

		$filename = 'myxml.xml';
		$xmlfile="./xml/".$filename;
		$xmlRaw = file_get_contents($xmlfile);
		$data['xmlData'] = $this->simplexml->xml_parse($xmlRaw);
		//$this->parser->parse('xml/table_view', $data);
		echo $this->load->view('xml/table_view', $data, TRUE);
	}
}

/* End of file xmltest.php */
/* Location: ./system/application/controllers/xmltest.php */

At last but not least the table view on codeigniter (applications/views/xml/table_view) with foreach on xml row items:

';
		foreach($row as $item => $value)
		{
			//could be $value instead of $row[$item], but this show the array manipulation in the foreach
			$result .= '


';
		}
		$result .= '

';
	}
	echo $result;
?>
	



PRODUCT ID
PRODUCT NAME
CATEGORY
PRICE



'.$row[$item].'

And the Jquery AddClass for even class on rows:

Thanks for your comments, the next wave would be the MySQL insert function on the xmltest controller.

With so many browser out there in the wild, working as a Web Developer certainly is not an easy job these days. Thankfully, over the last years, decent tools have been developed by bright people that make developing and debugging of code easier for the developer. But sometimes, it is not easy to keep track which tools are at a Developer’s disposal (and which are actually usable). The following article seeks to list the best tools available and quickly describing how to activate/install/use them.

Thanks to KlausKomenda.com

http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/02/16/collection-of-web-developer-tools-per-browser/

After SEVERAL HOURS of try/catch I finally came with this working example, its working on AJAX POST with new rows appends to the TABLE on the fly (that was my real problem):

The magic came with link this:

remove
remove
remove

This is the final working with AJAX POST and Jquery Dialog:

var $k = jQuery.noConflict();  //this is for NO-CONFLICT with scriptaculous
     function removecompany(link){
        companyid = link.id.replace('remove_', '');
    $k("#removedialog").dialog({
                        bgiframe: true,
                        resizable: false,
                        height:140,
                        autoOpen:false,
                        modal: true,
                        overlay: {
                                backgroundColor: '#000',
                                opacity: 0.5
                        },
                        buttons: {
                                'Are you sure ?': function() {
                                        $k(this).dialog('close');
                                        alert(companyid);
                                        $k.ajax({
                                              type: "post",
                                          url: "../ra/removecompany.php",
                                          dataType: "json",
                                          data: {
                                                        'companyid' : companyid
                                                },
                                          success: function(data) {
                                                //alert(data);
                                                if(data.success)
                                                {
                                                        //alert('success');
                                                        $k('#companynew'+companyid).remove();
                                                }
                                      }
                                        }); // End ajax method
                                },
                                Cancel: function() {
                                        $k(this).dialog('close');
                                }
                        }
                });
                $k("#removedialog").dialog('open');
                //return false;
     }

Finally the dialog DIV:

This company will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. Are you sure?

Welcome to my Site !

My personal Blog Site www.carlos-alcala.com is borning this day, July 4th as an "Blog Independence Day", but ONLY THIS TIME it's just for me,  and to remind every one else my comming soon Birthday on July 6th.

This site porpouse is for my blogging system and "share to the world " over software development tips&tricks for PHP, AJAX, Jquery, JSON, CodeIgniter, Drupal and so on.

Thanks for your feedback to make this site better every day!

Sincerely

Carlos Alcala

Hello Blog World, finally I get my own blog site, enjoy it  !!!