Posts by Dani

Haha thank you sooo much :)

I can manually create a record for your latest donation and give you the sponsor badge, but this way every month it will automatically add to the monthly tally on our new donation page. And I'm planning on doing some other stuff with that in the future so this way your record is created just like everyone else's :)

Ale,

Were you referring to the badges to the left of people's posts under avatars (for example mine says Administrator and Sponsor) or were you referring to member badges at http://www.daniweb.com/states/get_badge ??

Grrr, can you do me a huge favor? Can you cancel the Paypal subscription and then restart it back up using the new system?

Oh, well thank you :) I will have to manually create your record in the new database because it's not tied to the old system.

I noticed a 'Sponsor' badge worn proudly by HappyGeek. Where's mine?

http://www.daniweb.com/home/donate

A banned member was repeatedly trying to 'Log In with Facebook' to the point of where they made the top list by activity points! However, it wouldn't show their name because they were banned and weren't supposed to be in the list, so the layout got a little funky. All fixed now. And no more giving activity points to banned people.

I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion.

Will look into it in a few minutes, thanks!

If the new system is working correctly, then all these posts were upvoted after I changed my nickname, is there a way to confirm that?

Yes, but it involves digging deep into the database, and I'm rather busy right now working on another project.

I can confirm without a doubt, however, that username changes cannot affect anything like this since everything is tied to your user id, which doesn't change. Your username is entirely superficial.

Our new system came out in March 2012. It looks like you just came back about 2-3 months ago. Welcome back :)

It looks like the change in the post votes list is related to the change in system. You just didn't realize it until you came back.

It's 200% not related to your username change.

However, was your username change around the time that we switched over to our new system (March 2012)?

The link to 'Posts Voted Down' are the list of posts that currently have a negative net vote count. For example, suppose a post receives two downvotes and three upvotes. The little number next to the post will have the net total, which is 1, and the post will actually be in the list of 'Posts Voted Up'. However, your member profile will count 2 against your total down-votes received.

Sorry for the confusion in the way the system is designed.

OK I found this ... I think it's what I need: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/ProfileAndTools#id08A9E900IEX

What is the correct way to track PayPal purchases that use the standard payment button?

I see on https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx_websitestandard_htmlvariables I can fill out the return and rm parameters, but I read somewhere that it requires the user to click "continue" in their browser after the payment has been completed in order to be redirected back to your site. So if they just close the browser it doesn't register accurately.

Also, for the 'rm' parameter it says that if you specify 2, the buyer's browser is redirected and all payment variables are included via POST. But what are the payment variables??

Also how can I test that it's working correctly without actually paying myself?

Looks fun!! :)

Hi,

Sorry you're experiencing trouble. Please send me an email (dani [at] daniwebmail [dot] com) from the email address associated with your account, and I'll manually reset your password for you.

Unfortunately I can't duplicate this. :(

I like that you included documentation now! :)

BTW - if I want to place more that one app on one site, should I create a new application for each or should I just use the one and reuse the same client id etc?

It's up to you with two caveats:

1. If you use clientside OAuth 2.0, the domain registered must match the domain the app resides on.
2. The application name and website is displayed when asking for authorization from end-users, so you'll want it to be a friendly name. Whether you create a single app or multiple apps from the same domain name would depend purely on end-user usability. There's no advantage or disadvantage.

Just tested it and i'm seeing Windows Vista nd Win 7/8 and Windows 2000/XP ... seems to all be working now :)

OK yeah, that should work :) Much more elegant than going through nested loops.

I think you're in IE compatibility mode.

Favorite forums have always been the same. It's just an array of forum IDs within /me. Just take that array of forum IDs and collapse it into a semi-colon delimited list, and fetch all those forums and all their descendants at once.

Diafol,

I might be confused, but I don't think that you should need to do any type of nested loops.

Just look at the list of my favorite forums when you pull /me

Then, do:

http://www.daniweb.com/api/forums/1;2;3;4;5/descendants?include_self=1

This will give you a flat list of all of my favorite forums and all their descendants.

I was trying to add pagination and I accidentally put the pagination object inside the data object ... All good now.

NOW fixed.

GRR, not fixed ... hold on :)

Don't ya just love working with a moving target API? :)

Fixed. Sorry about that.

Oh shoot, you're right! I did break something!! Fixing ......

I didn't change anything????

No :(

OK, I just hope I get the same json format :)

You will! However, it seems like it isn't able to determine the forum name when you're in a sub-forum, like one of the sub-forums within Microsoft Windows. Are you sure you're pulling descendants and not just children?

Two things ...

1. You probably want to pass ?include_self=1 when you fetch /forums/descendants to include the top level categories as well, and not JUST their descendants.
2. I'm not sure if it's related to that or not, but my list has an article that says f: undefined. It points to this thread: http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/threads/448757/cannot-download-attachments-in-gmail

I love the Twitter Boostrap look!! Spiffy!!

I get a 500 server error :(

Welcome to DaniWeb! :)

But the input string didn't start with 0x or 0. At least, I think not ;)

The documentation told me that base 10 was assumed if you didn't pass in the second argument!!

It worked in Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer!!

Someone logs in via facebook about once every five minutes around the clock, so if you had to wait a week for these screenshots, it's going to be nearly impossible to debug.

It might just be the small % of people who had the Facebook OAuth 2.0 process take too long for them, so they kept manually hitting the refresh button.

Based on the statistic of someone logging in via facebook every 5 mins, this would need to happen at least once or twice an hour to be considered something that I could even potentially look into.

I just logged into Facebook and it worked fine for me. Only showed me once in the list like normal. How often do you see this?

Moral of the story: Don't trust parseInt() to work the same in Firefox as it does in Chrome.

Fixed ... super sorry about that.

Oh, I see that! That's not good. Working on it ...

What sport do you play?

A geek. Geek is chic. ;)

Can this not be put into a loop?!

What if you created an array of all the fields and then looped through them validating/sanitizing the data?

Code should speak for itself, only rarely code is not clear enough to be read without comment.

I agree. I usually only comment to remind myself why I did something a particular way, but I really should be commenting at least a little more than I do.

Yeah, I did :)