So, what exactly does this do?
The first query retrieves the post count of any entries (in this case, the URL TITLE of the entry is in the third segment of the URL) that are assigned to a specific category (we are looking for 1 here; in fact, the LIMIT 1 line keeps the query from searching for anything greater, as our relevant choices are either 1 or 0). The count is then applied to a PHP variable called assignedCatVar.

If the assignedCatVar is = 1, then the next query grabs the contents of the right-hand menu entry and displays it appropriately on the page.

Simple and effective.

For example, setting the Search Results URL value to
{homepage}staff-members will create a SEARCH RESULT of http://mysite.com/staff-members/.

Easy enough, right?

Now, what do you do when you have a Weblog that contains category-based information. The specified Search Results URL does not take this information into account. So, if you have a weblog with a hard-coded path of http://mysite.com/staff-members/category1/johndoe , how do you get the category to show up in the search results?

I have a workaround on the RESULTS template in my SEARCH template group:

{exp:search:search_results}

<?php $autoPath = ‘{auto_path}’;

$lastSegment = basename($autoPath);

//Staff-member URL update, based on the category assigned to the entry

if(strpos($autoPath, ‘staff-members’)){

//variable to assign the category to the appropriate URL segment for the Rule

$catVar = 1;

$basename = ‘catPath’;

?>

{categories}

<?php

$tempname = $basename.$catVar;

$$tempname = “{category_url_title}”;

$catVar++;

?>

{/categories}

<?php $autoPath = “{homepage}”.”staff-members/$catPath1/$lastSegment”;

} ?>

<br /><span><?php echo $autoPath; ?></span>

</div>

{/exp:search:search_results}

So, if the staff-members URL segment exists in the specified URL’s path, the Category/Categories assigned to the Entry are obtained and then added to the URL, defined by the $autoPath variable.

It might not be the most elegant solution, but it works great for us.

Luckily, there is an easy fix:

• Open up any MS Office 2007 product. In my instance, I used Office 2007.
• Go to Help>Office Diagnostics.
• Run diagnostics. This took about 5 minutes to complete.
• Return to your SharePoint site. the multiple document upload tool should now be working. Apparently, this fix re-registered any .DLLs that were causing the error. I love easy fixes!

Here is how to enable Word Wrap in Excel (2003 and 2007 version):

• Hold Control and then click on the top column header (usually has a letter next to it) for each column with content.  You want to get all of your columns (with data in them) highlighted.
• Press CONTROL and the 1 key;  this will open up the FORMAT CELLS menu box.
• Choose the ALIGNMENT tab, and then put a check next to WRAP TEXT.  Press OK.  Here is what the menu should look like:
  

  Choose Wrap Text from the MS Excel FORMAT CELLS menu.

  Don’t forget to use the PRINT PREVIEW (FILE>PRINT>PRINT PREVIEW) to take a peak at your sheet before printing.  You might have to edit  the margins to get everything to fit as needed.  (Put a check next to SHOW MARGINS at the top menu).

  You should now be ready to print to PDF!

To do so:

1. Go to START>SETTINGS>REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS
2. Click on the CUSTOMIZE button
3. Next to LIST SEPARATOR, type in a semi-colon (;)

This will set the default delimiter value to a semi-colon.  So, when you save a file in Excel as .csv, you will have semi-colons to separate the row data.

Note: I used Windows XP for the above settings.   A different flavor of Windows might have different options.

• If your access point is older than 2 or 3 years, it is time to replace it.  Most older access points do no adhere to the latest security protocols, such as WPA2 security (WEP and WPA security are pretty much out-dated and should be avoided).
• Please, please, PLEASE change the default SSID (service set identifier) and password that comes with the wireless access point.  The default values are generally simple and are listed on the manufacturer’s website.  Remember, use strong passwords that are not easy to guess.
• Turn off the auto-connect option.   Automatically connecting to networks is a good way to open up your computer to security risks.
• If your access point has a hardware firewall, enable and use it.
• When installing your access point, try to keep it in the center of your home.  That way, less of the signal leaks out of your house…And into the potential, greedy hands of thy  neighbors.  Nothing wrong with ‘security through obscurity.’
• When you are not online, turn off the access point.  It is impossible to hack something that is not powered on.  Go a bit green; hook your access point, computers, monitors, printers to a power strip.  When not in use, turn the power strip off.  You can save some energy and help to protect your systems.

First, we will need to enable IMAP in Gmail:

1. Sign in to your Gmail account.
2. Click on Settings (the link should be at the top of the page)
3. Choose Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
4. Choose Enable IMAP
5. Choose Save Changes

Now, we need to configure Outlook to connect to the Gmail account:

1. Open Outlook.
2. Click on Tools>Account Settings.
3. Click New.
4. Enter your display name, email address (including ‘@gmail.com’), and password.
5. Select the ‘Manually configure server settings or additional server types‘ checkbox.


Step 1 of Configuring Outlook to connect to Gmail.

6. Select Internet E-mail.
7. Settings: name, full email address (including ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@your_domain.com’)
   • In the Account Type dropdown menu, select IMAP; enter the incoming and outgoing server names shown below.
   • In the ‘User Name’ field, give your full Gmail address, including ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@your_domain.com.’
   • After creating these settings, clicking Next takes you to the end of the setup.
   

   Step 2 of configuring Outlook to communicate with Gmail.

8. In the Tools menu, select Options then Mail Setup. Under ‘Email Accounts,’ click E-mail Accounts.
9. Select an account, and click Change above the list of accounts. Click More Settings, then the Advanced tab.
   • Incoming server must be 993, and must use SSL encryption.
   • Outgoing server can use 587, TLS encryption.
   

   Configuring Incoming and Outgoing information for communication between Outlook and Gmail.

10. Click the Outgoing Server tab. Make sure that ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication’ is selected. The  button ‘Use same settings as my incoming mail server‘ should also be selected.


Internet Email Settings for communication between Outlook and Gmail.

11. Click OK > Next > Finish > Close > OK.

You can now drop and drag folders/messages from Outlook to your newly created Gmail account from within Outlook. When you create new folders, this will create new labels/folders in your Gmail account. One note: sub-folders do not seem to display within Gmail, so you might need to create new folders for each of your sub-folder. Once you have copied everything over to Gmail, you can simply remove the new account from within Outlook.

Take a simplified, yet effective approach to input validation with your web forms and PHP.

As far as input validation goes, most programmers prefer a proactive strategy: you determine what input you want to collect from the user (number format for ages, alpha characters for names, and so forth) and then you collect only that format, producing an error message when the user enters something else. However, some users quickly get frustrated when they have to re-enter the input again, or they can’t figure out what is causing the problem. To combat the inherent confusion of the user, why not run all input through a validation function that automatically searches for potentially harmful input, removes the offending characters, then continues to process the form? This is what we are going to do:

[php]
<?php

//When the form is submitted, our 2 form fields, username and password, will be purged of potentially harmful characters.
//In this case, the characters will be replaced with blank spaces.
if ($_POST) {

//Function to remove specific special characters
function cleanInput($text)
{
$code_entities_match = array(‘-’,'>’,'!’,'#’,'$’,'%’,'^’,'&’,'*’,'(‘,’)',’{‘,’}',’|',’:',’"’,'<’,’[',']‘,’\\’,';’,"’",’,',’/',’*',’~',’`');
$code_entities_replace = array(”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”);
$text = str_replace($code_entities_match, $code_entities_replace, $text);
return $text;
}
//Set form variables
$Username=stripslashes(cleanInput($_POST['username']));
$Password=stripslashes(cleanInput($_POST['password']));

//process your form variables as needed, as they have been sanitized with our cleanInput function.
//You can write the values to a database, send via an email script, and so forth.

}//End post
?>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST" id="login" name="login">

<div class="label01">Username:</div>
<input type=text size=30 name="username" maxlength=30 />

<div class="label01">Password:</div>
<input type=password size=30 name="password" maxlength=30 />
<br />
<div id="submitButton">
<button type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" >Logon</button>

</div>

</form>
[/php]

Please read the script comments to see what is taking place. This is a rudimentary approach to input validation, but it works, is simple to initialize, and it will help to keep your data safe.

LDAP (short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), a directory service that runs over TCP/IP, stores information. The storage is similar to how a database stores information, but the structure is ideal for attribute-based, hierarchical structured data that does not undergo frequent changes (for example, the employees’s name, Active Directory group membership, address, and so forth). The LDAP directory can be thought of as a tree of nodes, where each node represents an entry in the LDAP database. These entries are comprised of a collection of attribute-value pairs, and they are identified uniquely by a ‘distinguished name’ or DN. The DN is important, because this is what we will be using to determine a user’s group membership.
Our login script will

1. First bind to our LDAP server with a resource account (we are not using anonymous binding, so we will need to provide a resource account’s credentials)
2. Check that the user’s ID and password are legit and exist in our Active Directory environment
3. Check if the user is a member of a particular security group

If all of these conditions are met, the users will have successfully logged on and will be granted access to our application.

We will store our authentication function in a php file entitled resourceBind.php. The entire contents of resourceBind.php:
[php]<?php

?>
[/php]

And, our login page, which we will call login.php, and which will be located in the same directory as resourceBind.php:
[php]<?php
//Disable error messages
error_reporting(0);
?>
<?php require_once(‘resourceBind.php’); ?>
<?php
if ($_POST) {

//Handy function to remove specific special characters from user provided input. ALWAYS validate user input. In this case, we are removing characters that are not allowed in usernames and passwords.
function cleanTxt($text)
{
$code_entities_match =

array(‘–’,'>’,'&quot;’,'!’,'#’,'$’,'%’,'^’,'&’,'*’,'(‘,’)',’{‘,’}',’|',’:',’"’,'<’,’[',']‘,’\\’,';’,"’",’,',’/',’*',’~',’`');
$code_entities_replace = array(‘-’,'-’,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”);
$text = str_replace($code_entities_match, $code_entities_replace, $text);
return $text;
}
//Set form variables
$Username=stripslashes(cleanTxt($_POST['ssoname']));
$SSO_Password=stripslashes($_POST['ssopass']);

//Get Ip Address and User Agent information. This is useful info to store in sessions, or a database table, especially if you need to track timestamps and access
$userIP = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
//Get Timestamp
$myDate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");//Date in easy-to-read format

$displayForm=false;

if(UMldap($Username,$SSO_Password)){
//set complex string in case there is no ‘whencreated’ field for the username

//User has valid credentials. We are creating a new session variable with the user name. This is also a good place to effectively double up your authentication security by checking to see if the user name exists in another medium, such as a MySQL or Oracle table.
$_SESSION['USERCMS'] = $Username;

//The login is a smashing success, so redirect the user to the protected page.
$MM_redirectWithSuccess = "Successful_login.php";
header("Location: ". $MM_redirectWithSuccess );

} else {
/We can’t log the user in, so display the login form again
$displayForm=true;
}

//unbind
ldap_unbind($ldapconn);

//*************************************
}//end POST check

?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >

<head>
<title>LDAP Login Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Login</h1>
<?php

//—————————————————————————-
//Form variables to display previously filled out fields
$displayForm=true;
$ssoname=”;
$ssopass=”;
//—————————————————————————-

//Display the login form
if ($displayForm){//Display the request form
?>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST" id="login" name="login">

UserID:
<input type=text size=30 name="ssoname" maxlength=30 />

Password:
<input type=password size=30 name="ssopass" maxlength=30 />
<br />

<button type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" >Logon</button>

</form>

<?php
}
?>

<!– Javascript to move the cursor to the Username form field. This is a small convenience to the user. –>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
document.forms['login'].elements['ssoname'].focus();
</script>

</body>
</html>
[/php]

To figure out how everything works, please read the comments within the code. If you are interested in learning more, please check out Hugh’s excellent book: