IF IT IS CREATIVE

A simple PHP( class / interface) auto-load manager for WordPress, built with PHP-Autoload-Manager by http://bashar.alfallouji.com/php-autoload-manager/. AL-Manager allows you to easily extend the power of WordPress using Object Oriented PHP, classes and libraries. Now you can easily add some of the great PHP classes available on the web to you projects.

I built a class after reading post on the web about optimizing WordPress plugins and themes, as proof of concept to demonstrate the possibility of adding and extending WP by leveraging “OO PHP”, making it easier to reuse code and reduce a lot of the code repetition that can sometimes be found in WP.

The first release is really simple and includes a Paypal and Facebook php library, I plan to add more soon. It uses the WP filter function (alm_filter) to add class paths to the auto-loader.

Download the class : https://github.com/shawnsandy/AL-MANAGER

To use, install/upload and activate the plugin, use WP add_filter() function (alm_filter) to add your class folder check the sample code below.

/**
 * --- AL-Manager -----
 */

//check if ALM is loaded and add filter
if(class_exists('al_manager')) add_filter('alm_filter', 'al_paths');

//sample fliter adds 'inc' dir to the autoload paths
function al_paths($folders) {
    $p = array(your_DIR . '/inc/');
    $folders = array_merge($p, $folders);
    return $folders;
}

//use any class in the folder no need to add includes
$class = new Your_class_name();
$class = new Another_class_name();

//end********************

A simple PHP classes / interface auto-load manager for wordpress, built with PHP-Autoload-Manager by http://bashar.alfallouji.com/php-autoload-manager/. AL-Manager allows you to easily extend the power of WordPress using Object Oriented PHP, classes and libraries. =Developer Info = The AutoLoad Manager is a generic autoloader that can be used with any PHP framework or library. Using the PHP tokenizer mechanism, it will parse folder(s) and discover the different classes and interfaces defined. The big advantage of using this autoloadManager is that it will allow you to implement whatever naming rules you want and may have mutliple classes in one file (if you want to have a such feature). So basically, you don’t have anymore to implement some complex naming rules between the filename and the classname. You may organize the way you want your API (may have as many subfolders as you want, you may have multiple API folders, etc.). (http://bashar.alfallouji.com/php-autoload-manager/).”

More info will be available soon, stay tuned!

Wacom is making the sketch pad digital, and they are doing it in style. A few weeks ago Wacom the dudes that makes those cool graphic tablets launched Inkling a digital pen that captures your sketches make them and stores them for transfer to you computer.

Inkling bridges the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital development by capturing a digital likeness of a pen-on-paper sketch.

Basically you attach the receiver to your sketch pad, note book or stack of papers and use the pressure sensitize pen draw make your sketches.

In addition to capturing your sketch, stroke by stroke, Inkling allows you to create layers in digital files while you sketch on paper. Digital files are transferred to your computer using the Inkling Sketch Manager software, and later, exported to applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®. Files can also be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete, add layers or change file formats.

My first impression was wow, exactly what I wanted but after some thought I having some doubts or about how effectively this would work my sketches are usually messy and all over the place, at least until the final drafts. I just not sure where I would want to start capturing the process.

I would love to have a week to try this thing out for a week FREE, wishful thinking maybe but who knows.

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AL Manager : WordPress Plugin

Inkling Takes the Sketch Pad Digital!