Image Data URIs with PHP

If you troll page markup like me, you've no doubt seen the use of data URI's within image src attributes. Instead of providing a traditional address to the image, the image file data is base64-encoded and stuffed within the src attribute. Doing so saves a network request for each image, and if you're the paranoid type, can prevent exposure of directory paths. Since creating data URIs is incredibly easy, let me show you how to do it with PHP.

The PHP

Start by reading in the image using file_get_contents (or any other PHP method you'd like), then convert the image to base64 using base64_encode:

// A few settings
$image = 'cricci.jpg';

// Read image path, convert to base64 encoding
$imageData = base64_encode(file_get_contents($image));

// Format the image SRC:  data:{mime};base64,{data};
$src = 'data: '.mime_content_type($image).';base64,'.$imageData;

// Echo out a sample image
echo '<img src="',$src,'">';

With the image data in base64 format, the last step is placing that data within the data URI format, including the image's MIME type. This would make for a good function:

function getDataURI($image, $mime = '') {
	return 'data: '.(function_exists('mime_content_type') ? mime_content_type($image) : $mime).';base64,'.base64_encode(file_get_contents($image));
}

The thing to remember is that IE7 and lower don't support data URIs, so keep that in mind if you're considering switching from image paths to data URIs!

http://davidwalsh.name/data-uri-php 

How to Run PHP Scripts in *.html or *.htm Files

One of the most common questions hitting our support inbox is how to get PHP working in *.html and *.htm files. With this blog we try to provide a practical guide for our users and thus kill two birds with one stone figuratively.

Question One: Does my web host support PHP?

At first you should try to find our whether PHP is supported by your webhost or not. If you already know that PHP works please continue to read at Question Two. If you don't know you could either ask your hosting company or you could just try it by following these steps:

First, create a file named "phptest.php". At this stage it is important to use the file extension ".php". Open the file in a simple text editor (for example the "Editor" in Windows) and write the following line:

<?php echo "hello world"; ?>

After saving the file please upload it to the root directory of your webspace. Open your browser and direct it to the file you just uploaded: "http://www.your-domain.com/phptest.php" (Needless to say, you should use your own domain here...)

It's the moment of truth now. What does the browser say? If you see the words "hello world" everything is fine, PHP is working. However, if you don't see these words please contact your hosting provider because PHP is not working (yet). Most hosting companies provide packages including PHP. So perhaps you just have to switch to another hosting plan.

Question Two: How to get PHP working in HTML files

If PHP is working there is only one step left to use PHP scripts in files with *.html or *.htm extensions as well. The magic word is ".htaccess". Please see the Wikipedia definition of .htaccess to learn more about it. According to Wikipedia it is "a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration."

You can probably use such a .htaccess configuration file for your purpose. In our case you want the webserver to parse HTML files like PHP files.

First, create a blank text file and name it ".htaccess". You might ask yourself why the file name starts with a dot. On Unix-like systems this means it is a dot-file is a hidden file.

(Note: If your operating system does not allow file names starting with a dot just name the file "xyz.htaccess" temporarily. As soon as you have uploaded it to your webserver in a later step you can rename the file online to ".htaccess")

Next, open the file with a simple text editor like the "Editor" in MS Windows. Paste the following line into the file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm

If this does not work, please remove the line above from your file and paste this alternative line into it, for PHP5:

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm

Now upload the .htaccess file to the root directory of your webserver. Make sure that the name of the file is ".htaccess". Your webserver should now parse *.htm and *.html files like PHP files.

You can try if it works by creating a HTML-File like the following. Name it "php-in-html-test.htm", paste the following code into it and upload it to the root directory of your webserver:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
	<HEAD>
	<TITLE>Use PHP in HTML files</TITLE>
	</HEAD>
 
	<BODY>
		<h1>
		<?php echo "It works!"; ?>
		</h1>
	</BODY>
</HTML>
 

Try to open the file in your browser by typing in: http://www.your-domain.com/php-in-html-test.htm (once again, please replace your-domain.com by your own domain...)

If your browser shows the phrase "It works!" everything works fine and you can use PHP in .*html and *.htm files from now on. However, if not, please try to use the alternative line in the .htaccess file as we showed above. If is still does not work please contact your hosting provider.

 https://www.rssinclude.com/blog/36_how_to_run_php_scripts_in_html_or_htm_files

Java - Call URL And Sending HTTP Parameters Via GET POST PUT PATCH DELETE Method Easily Execute

Its very easy to invoke URL using Java, We can now send GET, POST, PUT, PATCH And Delete method easily. Invoking URL in Java is easy now. Call URL and get response from that URL is can be done using Java code.

package common;

import java.io.*;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;

/**
 * Created by pritom on 11/07/2016.
 */
public abstract class HttpJavaClient {    
    public static enum Method {
        GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
    }

    public static enum Type {
        XML, JSON, URL_ENCODED;
    }
    ;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Response response = doGet("https://pritomkumar.blogspot.com");
        println("Get_Result:\n" + lengthString(response.toString().replace("\n", ""), 400) + "...");

        Map params = new HashMap();
        params.put("param1", "Param1 value");
        params.put("param2", "Param2 value");

        response = doPost("https://pritomkumar.blogspot.com", buildParameters(params), Type.URL_ENCODED);
        println("Post_Result:\n" + lengthString(response.toString().replace("\n", ""), 400) + "...");
    }

    public static Response doGet(String url) {
        return execute(url, Method.GET, "", Type.URL_ENCODED);
    }

    public static Response doGet(String url, Map headers) {
        return execute(url, Method.GET, "", Type.URL_ENCODED, headers, null);
    }

    public static Response doPost(String url, String data, Type type) {
        return execute(url, Method.POST, data, type);
    }

    public static Response doPost(String url, String data, Type type, Map headers) {
        return execute(url, Method.POST, data, type, headers, null);
    }

    public static Response doPut(String url, String data, Type type) {
        return execute(url, Method.PUT, data, type);
    }

    public static Response doPut(String url, String data, Type type, Map headers) {
        return execute(url, Method.PUT, data, type, headers, null);
    }

    public static Response doPatch(String url, String data, Type type) {
        return execute(url, Method.PATCH, data, type);
    }

    public static Response doPatch(String url, String data, Type type, Map headers) {
        return execute(url, Method.PATCH, data, type, headers, null);
    }

    public static Response doDelete(String url) {
        return execute(url, Method.DELETE, "", Type.URL_ENCODED);
    }

    public static Response doDelete(String url, Map headers) {
        return execute(url, Method.DELETE, "", Type.URL_ENCODED, headers, null);
    }

    public static Response execute(String url, Method method, String data, Type type) {
        return execute(url, method, data, type, null, null);
    }

    private static Response execute(String requestURL, Method requestMethod, String requestData, Type dataType, Map headers, Integer timeOutMilli) {
        Long started = System.currentTimeMillis();
        String httpResponse = "", responseMessage = "";
        Integer httpCode = 0;
        timeOutMilli = timeOutMilli == null ? 1000 * 30 : timeOutMilli; /* Default read & write timeout */

        HttpsURLConnection connection = null;
        try {
            String contentType = "", accept = "", contentLength = "" + requestData.length();
            switch (dataType) {
                case XML:
                    contentType = "text/xml; charset=utf-8";
                    accept = "text/xml";
                    break;
                case JSON:
                    contentType = "application/json";
                    break;
                case URL_ENCODED:
                    contentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
                    break;
            }

            connection = (HttpsURLConnection) new URL(requestURL).openConnection();
            setRequestMethod(connection, requestMethod.name());
            connection.setDoOutput(true);
            connection.setConnectTimeout(timeOutMilli);
            connection.setReadTimeout(timeOutMilli);
            connection.setRequestProperty("Pragma", "no-cache");

            if (headers != null && headers.size() > 0) {
                for (Object name : headers.keySet().toArray()) {
                    if (name.toString().endsWith("tls")) {
                        //headers.put("tls", "TLSv1.2");
                        //headers.put("tls", "TLSv1");
                        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance(headers.get(name.toString()).toString());
                        sc.init(null, null, new java.security.SecureRandom()); 
                        connection.setSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
                    }
                    else {
                        connection.setRequestProperty(name.toString(), headers.get(name.toString()).toString());
                    }
                }
            }

            if (requestData.length() > 0) {
                connection.setDoInput(true);

                if (accept.length() > 0) {
                    connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", accept);
                }
                if (contentType.length() > 0) {
                    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", contentType);
                }

                connection.setRequestProperty("Content_length", contentLength);
                OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8");
                writer.write(requestData);
                writer.flush();
                writer.close();
            }

            httpCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            responseMessage = connection.getResponseMessage();
            InputStream is = null;

            if (httpCode >= 200 && httpCode <= 299) {
                is = connection.getInputStream();
            }
            else {
                is = connection.getErrorStream();
            }

            Writer writer5 = new StringWriter();
            char[] buffer = new char[1024];
            try {
                Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
                int n;
                while ((n = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                    writer5.write(buffer, 0, n);
                }
                httpResponse = writer5.toString();
            }
            catch (Exception ex) {
                httpResponse = "";
                responseMessage = ex.getMessage();
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            httpResponse = "";
            responseMessage = ex.getMessage();
        }
        finally {
            try {
                connection.disconnect();
            }
            catch (Exception ex10) {
            }
        }

        return new Response(requestURL, httpCode, responseMessage, httpResponse, (System.currentTimeMillis() - started));
    }

    /* JAVA - HttpURLConnection Invalid HTTP method such as 'PATCH' */
    private static void setRequestMethod(final HttpsURLConnection httpURLConnection, final String method) throws Exception {
        try {
            httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod(method);
        }
        catch (final ProtocolException pe) {
            Class<?> connectionClass = httpURLConnection.getClass();
            Field delegateField = null;
            try {
                delegateField = connectionClass.getDeclaredField("delegate");
                delegateField.setAccessible(true);
                HttpsURLConnection delegateConnection = (HttpsURLConnection) delegateField.get(httpURLConnection);
                setRequestMethod(delegateConnection, method);
            }
            catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
                // Ignore for now, keep going
            }
            catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
            catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
            try {
                Field methodField;
                while (connectionClass != null) {
                    try {
                        methodField = connectionClass.getDeclaredField("method");
                    }
                    catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
                        connectionClass = connectionClass.getSuperclass();
                        continue;
                    }
                    methodField.setAccessible(true);
                    methodField.set(httpURLConnection, method);
                    break;
                }
            }
            catch (final Exception e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }
    }

    public static String buildParameters(Map parametersMap) {
        Iterator nameIterator = parametersMap.keySet().iterator();
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();

        while (nameIterator.hasNext()) {
            Object key = nameIterator.next();
            Object value = parametersMap.get(key);
            if (value == null) {
                value = "";
            }

            if (!(key instanceof String)) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Expected a string key in parametersMap but found " + key);
            }

            if (!(value instanceof String)) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Expected a string value in parametersMap but found " + value);
            }

            String parameterName = (String) key;
            String parameterValue = (String) value;
            if (buf.length() > 0) {
                buf.append('&');
            }

            try {
                buf.append(parameterName);
                buf.append('=');
                buf.append(URLEncoder.encode(parameterValue, "UTF-8"));
            }
            catch (Exception var9) {
                var9.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

        return buf.toString();
    }

    public static void parseParameters(String s, String enc, Map parameters) {
        if (s != null) {
            int start = 0;
            int end = s.length();
            boolean amp = true;

            do {
                int amp1 = s.indexOf(38, start);
                if (amp1 == -1) {
                    amp1 = end;
                }

                int eq = s.indexOf(61, start);
                if (eq == -1 || eq > amp1) {
                    eq = amp1;
                }

                String name = s.substring(start, eq);
                String value = eq == amp1 ? "" : s.substring(eq + 1, amp1);

                try {
                    parameters.put(URLDecoder.decode(name, enc), URLDecoder.decode(value, enc));
                }
                catch (Exception var11) {
                    var11.printStackTrace();
                }

                start = amp1 + 1;
            } while (start < end);
        }
    }

    public static class Response {
        private String url;
        private Integer code;
        private String message;
        private String body;
        private Long time;

        public Response(String url, Integer code, String message, String body, Long time) {
            this.url = url;
            this.code = code;
            this.message = message;
            this.body = body;
            this.time = time;
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "{URL=" + this.url + ",Code=" + this.code + ", Message=" + this.message + ", Time=" + this.time + " Millis, Body=" + this.body + "}";
        }

        public Integer getCode() {
            return this.code;
        }

        public String getMessage() {
            return this.message;
        }

        public String getBody() {
            return this.body;
        }

        public Long getTime() {
            return this.time;
        }
    }

    public static void println(Object o) {
        System.out.println("" + o);
    }

    public static String lengthString(String s, Integer m) {
        return s.length() > m ? s.substring(0, m) : s;
    }
}

How to output MySQL query results in csv format

From http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1475/save-mysql-query-results-into-a-text-or-csv-file/

SELECT order_id,product_name,qty
FROM orders
INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/orders.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'

jQuery check if element has a specific style property defined inline

Here's a very simple (probably in much need of improvement) plugin I've thrown together that will get you the value of an inline style property (and return undefined if that property is not found):

​(function ($) {
    $.fn.inlineStyle = function (prop) {
         var styles = this.attr("style"),
             value;
         styles && styles.split(";").forEach(function (e) {
             var style = e.split(":");
             if ($.trim(style[0]) === prop) {
                 value = style[1];          
             }                   
         });  
         return value;
    };
}(jQuery));

You can call it like this:

//Returns value of "width" property or `undefined`
var width = $("#someElem").inlineStyle("width");



Or you can use more simple way to do this as:

if ( $("#someElem")[0].style["width"] ) {
    //Has the style property inline
}
else {
    //Has not the style property inline
}

How do I call/use Grails service from a gsp

We can use 'grailsApplication.classLoader.loadClass' to load service.

<%@ page import="com.myproject.MyService" %>
<%
def myService = grailsApplication.classLoader.loadClass('com.myproject.MyService').newInstance()
%>
<span>${myService.methodName()}</span>

We can use another approach

In Grails we can use the set tag to define a variable with a value on a GSP. But we can also use the same tag to access a Grails service on a GSP. We must use the bean attribute with the name of the Grails service. We can even pass the name of any Spring managed bean in the application context of our application.

In the following sample GSP we access a Grails service with the name BlogService. We invoke the method allTitles() and use the result.

<html>
<head>
<meta content="main" name="layout"/>
</head>
<body>
    %{--Use BlogService--}%
    <g:set var="blog" bean="blogService"/>
    <ul>
    <g:each in="${blog.allTitles()}" var="title">
        <li>${title}</li>
    </g:each>
    </ul>
</body>
</html>