Beta: The CG-PowerPack of WordPress plugins

Okay, since I’ve covered what I can for the day/week, I’m putting up the new CG-PowerPack 1.0b15 release. I’m hoping that things are starting to stabilize and get worked out, so I can look at a 1.0 gold by mid-august.
I haven’t yet had time to look at/integrate suggested doc enhancements and folder/install reorg — but that’s on tap.
Steve, I’ll ping you offline so you know asap when it’s up.
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Beel, don’t hold your breath on POST support for songwriter — it just crashed my WMP9, and I’ve uninstalled it. From the intro doc dialog, it posts up an xml file as its only method (until the guy starts working on it again). If you’ve already figured out how to extract the data you want (note that XMLParser.php will do most of the lifting for you…), tossing that into the whattunes system wouldn’t be too hard to do (have your OWN code/hack that runs early on the page, checks the timestamp between the xml file and tracktunes.txt, and if the xml file is newer, regenerate the new data for tracktunes.txt… then let WhatTunes run as normal…).
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David,
Using the link that you provided above, I am getting an error message.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: unhtmlentities() in /home/httpd/vhosts/chait.net/httpdocs/download.php on line 91

Thanks

yeah yeah… I have to work around collisions with other people not writing good php code, and missed a file. ??
Try it again now — should be fixed.
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Beel – I gave up on SongWriter, even though I got you kinda working with it. I’m currently writing the little tray applet I talked about. For XP/2K + WMP9 (+ the new Blogging plugin), it’ll work in conjunction with CG-WhatTunes (or frankly any similar ‘what’s playing’ script) in order to show the current playing song in your sidebar…
Should be cool. ??
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I updated to 1.0b15, and Gallery plays nice with CGA. I now would like to use Whattunes to format my Recent Tunes data, but I am getting a T-STRING error which I cannot seem to resolve. I copy/pasted the recommended PHP code from the whattunesReadme.htm, but it does not seem to be working for me. This is the error that I am getting:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/sasane/www/www/blog/index2.php on line 114
Line 114 is the third line in the follwing code:
<?php
????if (function_exists("getWhatsPlaying")) // then we can use it
????{
????????$amaAlbum = getWhatsPlaying(true, true);
????????if ($amaAlbum)
????????{
????????????start_block("Now Playing", "now-playing", "li");
??????????????echo '<br>';
??????????????echo $amaAlbum;
????????????end_block();
????????}
????}
?>

The only character on this line is the “{“, I have tried altering the code in a bunch of ways, but I continue to get this error. Any ideas?

Beel,
THANKS!
I deleted the code you mentioned, and that gave me a better result. Then I realized that I should not be enclosing this code in “li” tags, and once I removed those my page displayed. Now it seems to be working.
NOW….how do you get the album art to display?

Oops, forgot to login. That was me in case you couldn’t guess…

Dave: I’ll check b16 but I am having a bit of a problem with validation when an album is found and when one is not and just the title, artist and album name are returned. With tweaking, I can get one or the other to validate, but not both. It basically involves the old span o’ text following <ul class="amazon-block"> (assumes a missing li start tag). If I get rid of the start_block and use li’s instead of ul’s in the … ah, it doesn’t matter what I did as it still doesn’t validate in all cases.

One new thing I noticed off the bat in b16:
show_amazon_items() does not default to $image=true, it has to be set.

Thanks Beel — I’ll have a look at the image stuff immediately, and the found/not-found stuff later.
Admittedly, I haven’t been focused on pure validation (I can’t get pure validation for the link wrapping I try to use, at least I don’t think I can — maybe someone with a better eye for what’s throwing off the validation can tell me ideas for fixing it). But I should be able to make the not-found case match the found case better.
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well, $image defaults to ‘true’, which should leave $imageSize as == $defaultAmazonImage (which defaults to ‘Small’ unless changed).
BUT, my bad. Just to be safe, I’m putting up b17 with just cg-amazon.php changed… bad comparison. PHP failed me on the new ‘array comparison’ I used to test the growing list of potential sizes (now 4 with SmallMedium).
Worth grabbing for ANYONE who got the ‘bad’ b16. ??
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Okay, CG-PowerPack b18is going up.
MASSIVE OVERHAUL of the XMLParser code. It now is MUCH faster for complex pages or slow networks/sites, and handles a bunch of edge-condition cases better. Improves both CG-Feedread and CG-Amazon stability/functionality, so if using either, you’ll want this.
Beel – also did tweaking of WhatTunes, trying to get better output for you. I’m using span-wrap, so I tried to add the missing ‘li’ wrappering around the spans for validation. Just tried it, looks good.
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Your plugins rock! I’m not sure why, but I cannot get the Amazon pluging to sort by categories. I can upload my various book titles into their respective categories. When I try to display them, I cannot sort the display by category. My code: <?php show_amazon_items(5, ‘time’, $wpCat=’1′); ?> should show 5 books from category 1, right? It says that no products are found. I’m positive they’re there!
Help!?

Ah … you have to declare the actual title, not the category number. All is well with the world once again!