Well, I know at least one user of WPGet, but consider this the official place for suggestions and comments.

A few things I’d like the people to vote about!

• More frequent releases with less features or larger gaps with more juicy features?
• What features do you want in the next major version?
• Tell me – what’s good, what sucks and what you want to see.
• If you want to contribute to the development effor or help spreading the word to site owners, I’d love some help!
• Anything else related.

Here’s a quick summary of the new features pencilled in for the next major version and how they’re doing:

• Updated Config Tool with one-click config – partially done
• Custom date/time formatting with easy implementation – pretty much finished
• Credit and link back to me can be switched off at runtime (now no longer a global change) – finished, subject to testing
• Better documentation and explanation – not started yet

All the features above are subject to potential changes and the listing of a feature here does not mean it will necessarily make it into the next or any release!

Neither do I have an estimated release date – it really depends on how much time I get to dedicate to this project. I will keep you posted on progress, as ever, on this blog.

You didn’t ask for it… but you got it anyway.

If you’ve been wondering exactly how to install WPGet, you need wonder no more, as I’ve done a screencast with a quick demo installation of WordPress.

This should serve any installation queries until the next version of the Config Tool arrives, which will feature one-click configuration (you will be able to download the fully ready-to-go script without any copying and pasting).

So, get watching!

A few notes:

• The reason the download in the video took so long is because for some reason the DNS servers over here are being really slow this evening, meaning it takes almost 15 seconds to visit most web pages (every time it does a lookup). Grrrrr…
• Needless to say, the database password (and relevant details) you may or may not have seen in the demo don’t work anymore. 😛
• Fellow KDE users may ask why I was copying things around and not working off the server directly (I love that feature in KDE). The reason is, most people won’t have that ability or won’t be used to that way of working, so I copied and pasted my way around instead.

The bad news is that the WPGet Config Tool sucked because it wasn’t clear what exactly you were supposed to be copying and pasting.

The good news is that there’s a new version which should make it a bit easier to understand!

The even better news is that I’m working on an even better version which should just pop up a download box on your browser with the fully ready-to-run script. It might not even suck by then.

Web-based version is also updated.

Enjoy a little less suckiness.

If you want to generate your WPGet configuration information without hacking around with the PHP, you did have the option of using the new Config Tool.

But now, it’s even better! You can now access this tool online, so you don’t even have to download and upload the script to your own server.

Get configuring now!

WPGet – the script to include WordPress posts in your non-WordPress site has been updated, again!

This time I’ve added new features and functionality. We now have the option of stripping images, embeds and JavaScript (image and embed stripping was previously mandatory) and a new Config Tool to generate all the code for integration for you.

Also, there are some new screenshots of the Config Tool on the PHP Classes page as well as the new updated files.

Download here or at PHP Classes.

Just a quick post to congratulate Ernest Wojciuk, whose class PHP Email to DB won the September 2006 PHP Classes innovation award.

I’m still amazed that I got nominated, though. Thanks again and I still love the nomination badge!

In other WPGet news, there’s a slightly new version (download here or at PHP Classes) which includes a minor fix to the image and embed stripping code – now it will remove images and embeds from posts even if the image/embed isn’t at the start of the post. The cause was a slightly wrong regex.

UPDATE: Also it seems the WordPress Italy blog [translated] have featured WPGet. Thanks!

Wow! Just received an email:

Congratulations Peter,

This is a notification message to let you know that your package WPGet was
nominated to the PHP Programming Innovation Award among all the classes
approved for publishing in the PHP Classes site during the month of
September of 2006.

Here’s my award nominee badge (I’m so proud!): (needs JavaScript)

Just a quick note – I am by no means expecting to win this at all and I’d be very surprised if I did. In fact, I was pretty shocked at receiving the email!

If you’d like to see all the amazing guys I’m up against (who I’m sure are much more deserving for this award than me) and vote for your favourite, go to the Vote page here.

Wow!! Wow! Wow! Thanks PHP Classes!!

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Greetings and welcome to an all-new tutorial series, Peter’s Webdev Workshop. This tutorial series will focus on web development, mainly focusing on using PHP as a server-side language, but I’m not ruling out having a crack at Python or Ruby, ASP.NET/Mono C# or something like that. This series will also look at JavaScript on the client side and we’ll be using XHTML for all the markup.

Before I jump into today’s topic, there’s a bit of admin and introduction I need to do to start up the new series. See you after the jump!

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WPGet 0.3 has been put online here and on PHP Classes. The 0.3 update is simply an edit which fixed an issue where if you drafted a post, subsequently published a different post, then published the draft one, the posts would appear in the wrong order (changed the order of results fetched from MySQL to post_date not ID).

Download here and on PHP Classes.

Big news for anyone who’s been following the development on WPGet (the WordPress integration script for integrating a WordPress blog into your site without building your site from WordPress) as it’s been accepted on phpclasses.org.

Its project page is here and it’s free and no registration is required to download. Of course, should you wish to register for phpclasses.org, you can choose to receive email updates when I publish a new version (I may also blog about new versions, but that’s not guaranteed).

It’s also listed as ‘notable’, which apparently means it’s particularly interesting/important/useful. Not really sure what the significance of being ‘notable’ is yet, but, thanks phpclasses.org!

I’ve updated the version on phpclasses.org to reflect the changes to the version stored here.

Enjoy!