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1. Imthiaz.
   I was working with the original version of DoiMenu from SourceForge when I ran across the class that you wrote in ASP. I was checking out the code, but I couldn’t figure out how to implement sub menu(s) below the existing example you posted. Can you create another example that makes more extensive use of the class you wrote? I’m sure that other people would benefit from it as well.
   Btw, I like your site. You have a good sense of humor and I enjoyed some of the random comments you made in various places.
   When are you going to post some examples of the remote scripting you mentioned? I think it’s interesting also.

   Thanks!

   Paul

   Comment by Paul Andrew — December 27, 2005 @ 9:58 pm

2. this is a dirty-hack to your organizer plugin 1.0 to make “user-specific” folders run on my safe_mode=on environment. note that all mods are picked from php.net. i also added umask(0) to make sure the chmod is set properly.
   currently this needs hardcoding. maybe you want to add three input fields under options that display, when safe-mode is set to on.
   regards, erik.

   the organizer_initialize() function made safe_mode
   
function organizer_initialize(){
global $organizer_dirs,$organizer_files_dir,$organizer_files_path,$organizer_path,$user_login;
global $organizer_upload_limit,$organizer_extensions,$organizer_quota;
$user_setting = organizer_get_user_setting($user_login);
if(get_settings('upload_path')!=''){
$upload_path = get_settings('upload_path');
}else{
$upload_path = 'wp-content/uploads';
}
if($user_setting){
if($user_setting[$user_login]['access']==0){
$upload_path_user = $upload_path .’/’.sanitize_title_with_dashes($user_login);
$upload_path_user_a = organizer_fix_windows_path(ABSPATH.$upload_path_user);
if(!file_exists($upload_path_user_a)){
if(is_writable(organizer_fix_windows_path(ABSPATH.$upload_path))){
if ( ini_get(’safe_mode’) ) {
$path=”html/wp2/”.$upload_path;
$newDir=sanitize_title_with_dashes($user_login);
// login to ftp server
$server=’sub.domain.tld’; // ftp server
$connection = ftp_connect($server); // connection
$user = “me”;
$pass = “password”;
$result = ftp_login($connection, $user, $pass);

   // check if connection was made
if ((!$connection) || (!$result)) {
return false;
exit();
} else {
ftp_chdir($connection, $path); // go to destination dir
if(ftp_mkdir($connection,$newDir)) { // create directory
if (ftp_site($connection, ‘CHMOD 0777 ‘.$newDir)) {
_e(’User-Directory created successfully.’, ‘organizer’);
} else {
die(__(’There was an error setting directory permissions. please contact the admin.’,'organizer’));
}
// ftp_chmod($connection,”0777″,$path$newDir); // chmod folder
return $newDir;
}
else {
return false;
}
ftp_close($conn_id); // close connection
}
} else {
$old_umask = umask(0); // from php.net - mkdir. makes sure mkdir sets propper directory-permissions
@mkdir($upload_path_user_a,0777);
@chmod($upload_path_user_a,0777);
umask($old_umask);
$upload_path = $upload_path .’/’.sanitize_title_with_dashes($user_login);
}
}
}else{
$upload_path = $upload_path .’/’.sanitize_title_with_dashes($user_login);
}
}
$organizer_extensions=$user_setting[$user_login]['extension'];
$organizer_upload_limit=$user_setting[$user_login]['uploadsize'];
$organizer_quota=$user_setting[$user_login]['uploadquota'];
}else{
$organizer_extensions=get_settings(’organizer_filetypes’);
$organizer_upload_limit=0;
$organizer_quota=0;
}
$organizer_path = organizer_fix_windows_path(dirname(__FILE__));
$organizer_path = str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],”",$organizer_path);
$organizer_path = organizer_fix_organizer_path(organizer_fix_windows_path($organizer_path));
$organizer_files_dir = organizer_fix_windows_path(ABSPATH.$upload_path);
$organizer_upload_dir_url_parts = parse_url(get_settings(’siteurl’).’/’.$upload_path);
$organizer_files_path = organizer_fix_windows_path($organizer_upload_dir_url_parts['path']);
$organizer_dirs = organizer_get_directories($organizer_files_dir);
}


   Comment by erik — May 18, 2006 @ 4:10 am

3. Hello,

   I saw your Smarty implementation for WP, and would really like to use it and create/contribute templates for it. Do you have an example template ? (you can answer by email)

   Thanks alot

   Comment by berard — July 10, 2006 @ 5:29 pm

4. Imthiaz
   This is a great site !
   i am struggling to attain something myself at the moment and wondered if you have a minute to help me.

   I use wordpress as you can see in my url.
   however i want to get at the html code to alter it. i used to use blogger and this was straightforward. do i have to install my wordpress site on a webserver to give me this facility?
   i notice your site is http://imthi.com i therefore presum you pay for web host onto which you run wordpress site.
   look forward to hearing from you.
   david

   Comment by david — July 17, 2006 @ 3:20 am

5. I saw that you have a page that discusses patent-related resources at http://imthi.com/. I wanted to suggest adding http://www.freepatentsonline.com to the page. This web site has free PDF downloading (instead of having to page through TIFFs like at the US PTO). It is by far the best free patent searching site.

   Comment by James — August 6, 2006 @ 12:00 am

6. Imthiaz: Great to hear you fixed the 2.0.4 issue. I’ll download your latest right now and give it a whirl.

   On another note, I have a little hack to your plugin that displays the image dimensions along with the other information. It also shows the image dimensions in the drop-down under-resize.

   I’ll send it your way if interested, unless you’ve already got that planned.

   Let me know,
   Tom

   Comment by Tom Bailey — August 25, 2006 @ 3:28 am

7. Being new to blogging I must be missing something. I loaded the plugin for WP 2 but cannot create a folder as it comes back directory failed. Do I have to set permissions or something and where does it create the folder.

   Quentin

   Comment by Quentin — October 16, 2006 @ 9:07 am

8. Hello,

   I’m a digtal artist from Philadelphia, and I use Organizer on my wordpress site. It’s great and makes displaying my art so much easier. Thanks!

   I’m also seeking people’s digital trash. I want those corrupted images you sometimes get when a download goes wrong or a digital camera fails. I use those corrupt files, and will be very thankful if you pass them along to me.

   I just relaunched my website, eagleapex.com, after a major redesign, examples of my work and more info are available there.

   Peace
   -Chris

   Comment by Christopher Thompson — October 23, 2006 @ 6:50 am

9. Hello!
   Nice to meet you.
   I got your Blog from your plugin for Wordpress PDA.
   Hope to make friend with you.
   Regards!

   Comment by Celn — December 3, 2006 @ 11:19 am

10. hi imthiaz
    that is a cool web site.
    continue the good job.

    regards
    hamid

    Comment by hamid — December 12, 2006 @ 10:05 am

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    Jobigg is about people helping people finding real jobs. Jobigg is not a job board and not by employers or an aggregator. Jobigg is not a place for for company representatives to vote for their own opportunities. Jobigg incorporates a system of self-moderation and management which helps identify and delete any attempts to spam the system with a mass upload of jobs.

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    Regards,

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    Comment by Nickie — December 21, 2006 @ 8:43 pm

12. Hi Imthiaz,

    I am writing to you for Packt Publishing, the publishers of computer related books.

    We have published a book on WordPress, titled, WordPress Complete, http://www.packtpub.com/wordpress/book. We would like to offer a review copy of this book to you for a review on your blog. Could you please let us know, how can we go ahead with this?

    Should you have any queries, please do let us know.

    Regards
    Kshipra Singh
    Packt Publishing
    http://www.PacktPub.com

    Comment by Kshipra Singh — December 28, 2006 @ 4:31 pm

13. In my endless search for a plugin renumbers post IDs in Wordrpress, I stumbled on your “Wordpress Organizer”. I was wondering what would be involved, in your opinion, in making a plugin to reorganize post IDs based on their publish date… Essentially, when I transfered blogs from other locations to my Wordpress site, they got out of order… Although the default display is by date, the post IDs are all out of order. When viewing the blogs individually, they arent in sequential order when clicking the links the the previous and next blog entries… I didn’t know if you have thought about doing anything with this but it seemed similar to your title Wordpress Organizer… Please email me back! Thanks!

    Comment by Andrew — January 4, 2007 @ 6:44 am

14. Hi Imthi,

    This is a fabulous website on linux.Believe me I am a Windows Guy with very good experience on development. After reading some articles on your site, I am willing to move to Linux.If you are in Dubai, can I have your contact number.

    Regards
    Niyazi

    Comment by Niyazi Khan — February 28, 2007 @ 7:16 pm

15. First, great idea and plug-in, giving much needed fuctionatility.

    One small problem I have run into:

    If I upload pics to the default dir (wp-contents/uploads), everything works just fine.

    However, if I use the plug-in to create a subdir there is a problem. The creation works fine and the Linux ownership and permissions look okay. But when I try to upload a file to that dir the upload fails. The error message from WP is very general and there are no Linux log entries that I can see to point to the problem.

    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks.

    Comment by Ken Wilson — March 23, 2007 @ 12:27 am

16. Here it is…. video to show how dows blog look before and after on MDA… thanks

    Comment by Zombix — March 31, 2007 @ 6:00 pm

17. Hello Imthi,

    I made a modification on organizer to add an unzip feature. I’m a newbie in php so this would need to be improved and cleaned a little bit.

    just drop me an email address if you want me to send the modification.

    Regards,
    Stephane

    Comment by Tistef — May 8, 2007 @ 9:27 pm

18. Do you know if the developer of the Menu Manager plugin will ever keep updating it, to make it 2.2 compatible?

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    Comment by Neal Stone — June 29, 2007 @ 2:55 pm

20. Just wondering if you solved the wireless problem with FC6. I’m trying to get wireless working on a Dell 630M with the Intel wireless hardware. The problem specifically is that the radio does not turn on (or off) with the Fn+F2 key combination. Only the suspend (Fn+F1) combo works as advertized; none of the other FN+Fxx mappings work.

    Thoughts?

    cht
    (Can’t Hit The Broad Side Of A Barn)

    Comment by chtbsoab — August 4, 2007 @ 9:57 pm

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    Hello,
    I am interested in purchasing textlink advertising on several pages of your website.
    imthi.com
    Let me know if you are interested and we can discuss further details.
    I can make a good offer.
    Thanks,
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    Comment by Sherry Spensor — August 5, 2007 @ 3:05 pm

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    Hello,
    Recently I contacted you regarding text-link advertising. Please let me know if you are interested and we can discuss the deal.
    Thank you.
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    Comment by Sherry Spensor — August 10, 2007 @ 5:10 pm

23. nice blog site bro.

    Comment by imtiaz mohammed — August 14, 2007 @ 6:01 pm

24. Bonjour,

    Bravo pour Wp-Pda !

    Toutefois, en essayant d’utiliser le plugin, j’ai remarqué que le fichier search.php comportait une erreur;

    Ligne 29 :

    au lieu de

    Par conséquent, le fichier plante lorsqu’il est appelé. J’ai vérifié si cette erreur de syntaxe était présente dans les autres fichiers, mais la vérification fut négative…

    Cordialement,

    Vincent

    Comment by Vincent — August 14, 2007 @ 11:54 pm

25. …
    
    au lieu de
    

    Comment by Vincent — August 14, 2007 @ 11:56 pm

26. Hi, I can’t seem to download your wp-pda plugin. Is the link broken? Please contact me via email and let me know what’s up, thanks!

    Comment by Bill — August 15, 2007 @ 7:36 am

27. I came across to your site. I saw that your also interested in SEO, I hope we can exchange ideas and thoughts about SEM and SEO in Dubai…

    Comment by SEO Dubai — September 4, 2007 @ 1:01 pm

28. I really like your PDA plugin and I used it in my site, but unfortunately it seems not working properly in Arabic language , arabic words appeared in incorrect order.
    so, it there a way to fix it

    thanks a lot

    Comment by Mo|-|anad — September 6, 2007 @ 7:52 pm

29. hey can i get your personal email id??

    Comment by Noor — September 23, 2007 @ 12:31 am

30. I used to use your plugin but it broke with Wordpress 2.3 and or MistyLook 3.5 both of which I upgraded to lately. Hope you’ll be updating it!

    Comment by Eats Wombats — October 1, 2007 @ 6:45 pm

31. I unzipped your organizer plugin in the plugin directory, but it does not appear in the plugin page. WP2.

    What’s going on? What do I need to do?

    Comment by monkeyfarmet — October 4, 2007 @ 10:01 pm

32. Hello Imthiaz

    Nice blog,

    I just wanted to ask a favor from you,

    We are a sdn Bhd company based in KL and we urgently need a good programmer in PHP/MYSQL and other web languages

    Are you interested in a position or do you have any good (verified in terms of skills) programmers to introduce to us ?

    thank you in advance, Arif

    Comment by Arif — January 19, 2008 @ 3:46 pm

33. Just wondering, do you know how your organize plugin works with the latest version of wordpress, 2.3.x?

    Comment by joseph — January 23, 2008 @ 9:02 pm

34. Hi there. I have downloaded your organiser plugin and installed and it works great for files that I have stored in the root directory of where uploaded files are stored (set in options MISC).

    However if I use organiser to create a new directory inside the root one and upload a file there, it will not display the file in the view files area.

    Why is this? Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Mark

    Comment by Mark — January 23, 2008 @ 10:33 pm

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    Comment by Roba — January 28, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

36. Nice plugin. Really useful! Thank you!

    Enhancement request:

    Add a utility/feature to allow users to add entries to the WP database to better integrate the files in WP. Users could run it after uploading via FTP (or other non-WP method) to synchronize the DB. (Removes entries that were deleted, etc).

    Users could even have the option of making the utility a cron job for nightly running.

    Let me know if I can help. I’ll do testing for you.

    Comment by tallthom — February 8, 2008 @ 10:11 am

37. Happy Birthday Imthi!!!!!

    Comment by Martin Diessner — February 25, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

38. Hi,

    please get me more info on iphone OS replacing with BSD

    Thanks in advance

    Comment by Susanth — April 3, 2008 @ 3:00 pm

39. Thank you for writing the PDA plugin. I’ve found it by accident, checked it out and it suddenly replaced the one I used before. Great plugin!

    One single note: by default the theme is displaying all pages. I’m using a lot of pages which are organized in a hierarchy like probably many people do who have 20+ pages. From my point of view it would make sense to display only the top level pages by calling the wp_list_pages function with the following parameters:

    wp_list_pages(’title_li=&depth=1′);

    Cheers,
    Meph

    Comment by Mephisto — April 4, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

40. I love this PDA plugin , its almost perfect for my need. I got a few suggestions that i have mentions on the Plugin page.

    I wanted to point out a possible error in the version i downloaded. wheni got to search a content i was getting an error on line 29 of search.php

    It had
    

    changing it to
    
    resolved the issue

    Comment by Saijo George — April 4, 2008 @ 8:14 pm

41. I don’t know whether post successfully, so again

    Thanks for your excellent plugin wp-pda

    I have modificed it a bit to support wpmu

    here is my modification, though it’s very easy but still hope it will be helpful for you.

    Modification to wp-pda.php

    1. add a function(from simple tags, thanks!)
    function isMuPlugin() {
    if ( strpos(dirname(__FILE__), ‘mu-plugins’) ) {
    return true;
    }
    return false;
    }

    2. change the function get_theme_root_uri to the follow to judge the load folder of the theme.

    function get_theme_root_uri($url) {
    if($this->pda || $this->iphone){
    $plugin_dir = “plugins”;
    if(isMuPlugin()){
    $plugin_dir = “mu-plugins”;
    }
    return get_settings(’siteurl’) . “/wp-content/” . $plugin_dir . “/wp-pda”;
    }else{
    return $url;
    }
    }

    3. modify the function pdaAdminMenu

    function pdaAdminMenu(){
    if ( function_exists(’add_submenu_page’) ) {
    if(function_exists(’is_site_admin’)){
    if(is_site_admin()) {
    add_submenu_page(’options-general.php’, __(’PDA’), __(’PDA’),’manage_options’ , ‘pda-options’ ,array(&$this,’pdaPluginOption’));
    }
    } else {
    add_submenu_page(’plugins.php’, __(’PDA’), __(’PDA’),’manage_options’ , ‘pda-options’ ,array(&$this,’pdaPluginOption’));
    }
    }
    }

    Comment by litchi — April 5, 2008 @ 7:49 am

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    http://www.wpthemespot.com/

    Its a page rank 7 site and gets a decent amount of traffic.

    Thanks, Ben

    Comment by Ben Welch-bolen — April 13, 2008 @ 4:29 pm

43. What browser config do you need on Blackberry? I keep getting content format errors and it won’t display even the home page.

    Comment by John W — April 16, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

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