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If you are interested in helping to test release 2.0.1.3, check out the current development version here:

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Ah yeh so I forgot to blog about this, 2.0.1.2 of my wordpress plugin is now available, as noted development of this plugin is unaffected by recent events.

2.0.1.3 will be released shortly to amend a minor bug with nonstandard wordpress installs, 2.0.1.2 fixed the loading in of flowplayer and the javascript libs however as Jerry has pointed out here: http://www.saiweb.co.uk/wordpress-flowplayer/comment-page-1#comment-995 this does not extend to wp-content/videos/

As such for the time being as a work around please use the full http://yoursite.com/blog/wp-content/videos path when embedding media.Tweet

2.0.1.2 brings a fix for #15 allowing users to edit the relative path.

As this is currently in testing you can get a copy of this fix here

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Completion of the milestone listed here: http://trac.saiweb.co.uk/saiweb/milestone/wordpress-flowplayer%202.0.1.0

Means 2.0.1.0 has now been released, so go update and give it a run

I have noticed that wordpress has a habit of setting incorrect file permissions on the config file after updating, if you also run into this issue let me know.Tweet

Version 2.0.1.0 is aimed to close 3 enhancements to the plugin including google analytics support.

v2.0.1.0 is due for completion 05/01/09

You can track progress here: http://trac.saiweb.co.uk/saiweb/milestone/wordpress-flowplayer%202.0.1.0Tweet

After much head banging you can now get a tagged release from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/word-press-flow-player/

If you have this plugin installed allready you should receive an update notification from wordpress shortly.

Please report any issues via our trac system http://trac.saiweb.co.uk/saiwebTweet

With the release of wordpress 2.7 and flowplayer 3.x I thought it was time to update the plugin.

A development copy as always can be obtained from:

However please remember that it is development and most like will not work.

Anyway enough talk here are some screen shots of upcoming version of the plugin (2.x).

UPDATE: I have been in contact with the flowplayer development team, and can now confirm 2.x of this plugin will support both GPL and commercial versions.

I am adding a section to the admin menu to allow input of a license key, and a link at the bottom of the menu to allow you to purchase a commercial license.

Purchasing a commercial license helps to support the Flowplayer project and continue it’s development, for a list of features in flowplayer 3.x see: http://flowplayer.org/documentation/index.html

Certain features i.e. custom logo, will only work with a commercial license.

Please direct any requests for support on this plugin to our TRAC system: http://trac.saiweb.co.uk/saiweb

UPDATE 2: V 2.x of this plugin should be release this evening.Tweet

After updating to 2.7 I can confirm that WordPress Flowplayer does not work with 2.7

Most likely due to hook changes.

I will be publishing an update shortly to correct this.

UPDATE: This was due to a folder permission problem post upgrade, remember to ensure your wp-content dir is at least 711 *doh* (Also bear with me on the stylings they also broke my theme )

Also please note I am working on integrating flowplayer 3.0.1. into the plugin, as such do not update your plugin from the development respository at this time.Tweet

If you’ve seen the new twitter feed to the right you may of seem some ramblings about ‘cura’.

Cura is a PHP class I have authored in Co-operation with Psycle Interactive (The company I now work for, so be sure to thank them for allowing me to publish this write up!)

So what does it do?
Cura sets several call back objects in your PHP application that re-directs all session data to a mySQL database.

But why do I need that?
The average 1 server end user can stop reading here, as I can tell you now that Cura is not for you.

If however you are a business fielding multiple web servers then read on.

By passing all your PHP sessions to a database you remove the work around requirements for a load balanced solution.

i.e. web1 web2

1) Shopper arrives at web1 and logs in.
2) Shopper adds item to cart, which is logged against their session.
3) web1 is subjected to a search engine index.
4) web2 is now serving the shopper, shoppers basket is now logged out as their session id has changed …

There are numerous work around methods for this, such as having a single shared mount point for the PHP session files, the use of cookies etc …

The problem is in a high availability solution that a single mount point is just that, it’s singular and therefor a single point of failure.

Then there is the use of cookies, which is fine until you start to store a lot of data during your users session, at which point on each server change you are reliant on the cookie data being transmitted back to the server each time, raising the question what is the point of adding a load balanced solution if the user experience becomes degraded due to it’s deployment?

So secret option number 3 is to use a database, you can remove the single point of failure by having a mySQL cluster, and you haven’t got to worry too much about how much data you are storing.

Because everything is in a database whenever your web application is run (web1, web2) it will read the data from one source, allowing persistent sessions across your whole platform without the need for single mount points or session replication.

The source files are available from: http://svn.saiweb.co.uk/branches/cura-php/trunk/

To deploy this solution simply add the following lines to any file that calls session_start();

Ensure that you have created a ‘sessions’ table as per the provided sessions.sql file in your database.

I will be adding simplified support for wordpress and joomla shortly these will become available from: http://svn.saiweb.co.uk/branches/cura-php/trunk/Tweet

I am in the process of contacting charitable organisations for project “sanctimonia”.

The project is a wordpress plugin to aid publishers to allow their content subscribers to donate to registered charities.

I had a paypal link saying donate to me on the right of this site at one point …. but then I thought to myself why … It would of gone on gadgets or caffeine products, why not let my readers donate to charities via my blog?

Currently I have contacted:

globalangels NSPCC Hope House

And am currently awaiting their reply.

Any suggestions or names of charities to add?

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