$(“#formButtonSubmit“).hover(function(){
$(this).css({
backgroundPosition: ’0px 0px’
});
}, function(){
$(this).css({
backgroundPosition: ’0px 30px’
});
});

// The jquery.validation.js class uses a regular expression to stop the process if the email entered isn’t acceptable

;(function($) {
$.validation = {};
$.extend( $.validation, {
email:function(email) {
var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if ( filter.test(email) ) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
})(jQuery);

// The registerSubmit.js submits the entered email via AJAX, returning a success or failure message, to our contactSubmit.php script, which handles the submission of the new email to a database

$(document).ready(function() {

$(“#reg-button”).click(function(){
$(“#topForm”).submit();
});

$(“#topForm”).submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var $form = $( this ),
emailAddress = $form.find( ‘input[name="emailAddress"]‘ ).val(),
token = $form.find( ‘input[name="token"]‘ ).val(),
formaction = $form.attr( ‘action’ );

if($.validation.email(emailAddress)){
$( “#reg-description” ).html (“submitting…”);
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: “contactSubmit.php”,
data: “firstName=” + firstName + “&lastName=” + lastName + “&emailAddress=” + emailAddress + “&token=” + token,
success: function(){
$( “#reg-description” ).html( “Thank you. You have been registered.” );
},
});
}
else{
$( “#emailAddress” ).val (“Please enter a valid email address”);
}
});
});

// contactSubmit.php:  receive the email, check the token, clean the data, pass to a database layer API

<? php
session_start();

set_include_path(‘DBlayerClass’);
require_once(‘EmailContact.php’);

if (isset($_SESSION['token']) && $_POST['token'] == $_SESSION['token']){
if(isset($_POST['emailAddress'])){
$emailAddress = htmlentities($_POST['emailAddress']);
} else { $emailAddress = ”; }

$contact = new EmailContact($emailAddress)

try {
$contact->save();
} catch (Exception $e) {
; // do something
}
//$retrieve = new EmailContact($emailAddress);
//$retrieve->load();
//print_r($retrieve);
//}
? >

This post covers the script that will take file exports from Cassandra (sorry, no Cassandra in this one…), and Post them to Bronto.  Below is an example that uses a standard HTML form Post, for understanding and comprehensiveness, and an example that uses CURL (which easily allows this process to happen as part of an ordinary CRON job).

First we have to set up, and get some connection values, from Bronto:

• Log into Bronto
• From the top menu select Home->Settings
• select Data Exchange
• scroll to the bottom to Direct Import and grab the following connection values:
  • URL: http://app.bronto.com/mail/subscriber_upload/index/
  • site_id: YOUR_SITE_ID
  • user_id: YOUR_USER_ID
  • key: YOUR_KEY

Anyhow, now they want a page from which a visitor could enter a search term, click submit, and get results from all of the separate applications!

Here is my solution:

The new page has your basic self submitting form:

<form action=”" method=”post”>
<label for=”search”>Search:</label>
<input name=”s” type=”text” value=”"  />
<input type=”submit” />
</form>

Then, of course, it grabs what has been submitted:

<?php

/**
* Get Search parameters
*/
$search = $_POST['s'];
$search = str_replace(” “,”%20″,$search);
echo $search;

?>

This checks to ensure that the user didn’t submit nothing (as WordPress would give us every post as currently coded…! ick).  This would also be a great place to guard against injection attacks (or in the last step of course), to filter what may be searched for, etc., but I’ll leave those concerns for another discussion:

<?php
/**
* If desired search is NOT empty, search, otherwise don’t
*/
if(($search != ”) && ($search != null) && (!empty($search)) )
{
?>

Now we curl in the results from each installation:

<?php
/**
* Get Search results from WP app 1
*/
$sub_req_url = “http://YOURAPP1URLHERE/searchpage.php?s=” . $search;
$ch = curl_init($sub_req_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$podcast_return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $podcast_return;

/**
* End
*/
?>

<?php
/**
* Get Search results from WP app 2
*/
$sub_req_url = “http://YOURAPP2URLHERE/searchpage.php?s=” . $search;
$ch = curl_init($sub_req_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$podcast_return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $podcast_return;

/**
* End
*/
?>

Now let’s close our IF block, and maybe provide ELSE if we want to…

<?php
/**
* close if empty block
*/
}
else
{
}
?>

Ok, that’s the end of our new page, again, I’ll leave formatting of the results and the rest of the page to another discussion.  Now let’s make the above mentioned search pages “searchpage.php” (make one for EACH APP, lives in the ROOT of EACH WP installation that we’re searching!):

<?php
/**
* WordPress App 1 Post Results Pull-In
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES‘, true);
include(‘wp-load.php’ );
$query = new WP_Query(‘s=’ . $_GET['s']);
if ($query->have_posts()) : while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>

/* Again, how you choose to skin the results could be implemented here, but I’ll leave that up to you… */

<div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>“>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div>
<?php the_content(‘<p>Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>‘); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages(array(‘before’ => ‘<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ‘, ‘after’ => ‘</p>‘, ‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’)); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Whoohoo! Great Work!

<script>
function submitter()
{
track_it(‘/podcast/searchFormSubmit/’);
document.searchform.submit();
}
</script>

<form method=”get” name=”searchform” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/”>

<input type=”text” value=”<?php the_search_query(); ?>” name=”s” id=”s” onclick=”this.value=””/>

This is the important new line, 5 is an example category id

<input type=”hidden” name=”cat” value=”5″ />

<a href=”javascript:submitter()” style=”text-decoration:none;font-size:11px;margin:0 0 0 5px;position:absolute;top:0px;”><img src=”wp-content/themes/New/images/go.png” onmouseover=”this.src=’wp-content/themes/New/images/go-over.png’” onmouseout=”this.src=’wp-content/themes/New/images/go.png’” border=”0″ />

</a>
</form>

source: http://wpgarage.com/code-snippets/how-to-hack-the-wordpress-search-function-search-categories-and-child-categories/

http://w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_php.asp

HTML:

<html>
<head>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function showHint(str)
{
if (str.length==0)
{
document.getElementById(“txtHint”).innerHTML=”";
return;
}
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
}
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
document.getElementById(“txtHint”).innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}
xmlhttp.open(“GET”,”gethint.php?q=”+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
</head
<body>

<p><b>Start typing a name in the input field below:</b></p>
<form>
First name: <input type=”text” onkeyup=”showHint(this.value)” size=”20″ />
</form>
<p>Suggestions: <span id=”txtHint”></span></p>

</body>
</html>

Script:

<?php
// Fill up array with names
$a[]=”Anna”;
$a[]=”Brittany”;
$a[]=”Cinderella”;
$a[]=”Diana”;
$a[]=”Eva”;
$a[]=”Fiona”;
$a[]=”Gunda”;
$a[]=”Hege”;
$a[]=”Inga”;
$a[]=”Johanna”;
$a[]=”Kitty”;
$a[]=”Linda”;
$a[]=”Nina”;
$a[]=”Ophelia”;
$a[]=”Petunia”;
$a[]=”Amanda”;
$a[]=”Raquel”;
$a[]=”Cindy”;
$a[]=”Doris”;
$a[]=”Eve”;
$a[]=”Evita”;
$a[]=”Sunniva”;
$a[]=”Tove”;
$a[]=”Unni”;
$a[]=”Violet”;
$a[]=”Liza”;
$a[]=”Elizabeth”;
$a[]=”Ellen”;
$a[]=”Wenche”;
$a[]=”Vicky”;

//get the q parameter from URL
$q=$_GET["q"];

//lookup all hints from array if length of q>0
if (strlen($q) > 0)
{
$hint=”";
for($i=0; $i<count($a); $i++)
{
if (strtolower($q)==strtolower(substr($a[$i],0,strlen($q))))
{
if ($hint==”")
{
$hint=$a[$i];
}
else
{
$hint=$hint.” , “.$a[$i];
}
}
}
}

// Set output to “no suggestion” if no hint were found
// or to the correct values
if ($hint == “”)
{
$response=”no suggestion”;
}
else
{
$response=$hint;
}

//output the response
echo $response;
?>

HTML:

select dropdown changes the source:

<div class=”name”>
<select name=”tpom” style=”float: left; width: 100px; margin-right:20px; border: 1px solid #5A3C18;” >
<option value=”downloader.php?file=folder/file.mp3″>Mp3</option>
<option value=”downloader.php?file=folder/file.zip”>Zip</option>
<option value=”downloader.php?file=folder/file.m4b”>Ipod</option>
</select>

link or button gets source from dropdown via jQuery onReady function:

$(“div.name select”).bind(“change”,function(){
$(‘#button_download’).attr(‘href’,this.value);
windowUrl = $(this).val();
//console.log(windowUrl);
});

<a onclick=”window.open(windowUrl,’download’);return false;” id=”button_download”>Download</a>

and equally useful

<input type=”text” disabled=’disabled’ …/>