I also updated the codebase with some timezone fixes and things that were causing duplicate emails. If you still receive these it’s probably because I have your state’s/city’s timezone listed incorrectly in the database. Contact me if this is the case.

Let me know what you all think if you get a chance. And as usual, enjoy!

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download: EnvatoTracker (425.01KB) added: 06/03/2010 clicks: 731 description: Envato sales tracker installer. Requires .Net 2.0

download: EnvatoTracker SRC - Github (13.43KB) added: 05/12/2010 clicks: 559 description: Source code - direct download for the EnvatoTracker repository on Github

GITHUB REPOSITORY

A gihub repository has been created for this project – you can find it here. Feel free to fork and make your changes to EnvatoTracker, and push your updated branch once your done. I’ve pulled the src download hosted on my site and now point to the one hosted on Github – feel free to either git the repo or download directly via above. If you plan to make changes you will want to fork a new branch – see http://help.github.com/forking/.

APP DETAILS:

Currrent version: 0.5.2.0
Last Updated: 7/28/2010
Author: Chris Fay
Language: C#/.Net 2.0/VS2005

NOTE:

Requires .Net 2.0+

RECENT CHANGES:

• 1. added icons
• 2. added system tray option to launch portfolio/sales info
• 3. validate username/apikey before polling api
• 4. fixed app not showing in task bar when restored
• 5. some minor other updates
• 6. Fixed shutdown issue (system wouldn’t shutdown until app was closed)

SETUP:

1. Install
2. Enter user information through GUI
3. Verify notify options in GUI
4. If email notifications needed you will need to input your smtp server information into config.ini

If all is setup propery you will see your total sales in the green box.

If using Windows 7, you’ll need to do the following:

Enjoy!
Please contact me with any questions or feedback.

SCREENSHOTS:

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Fortunately one of my users created a search that returned parsing errors of this nature and allowed me to dive into a solution to this problem. First of all, considering Craigslist will not be modifying the user input mechanism used to builds its feeds, and certainly will ignore my request for better formatting, i took it apon myself to do a little research. By submitting the feed for validation on http://validator.w3.org/feed I was able to get the exact issue causing the feed to break:

I couldn’t tell exactly what the issue was (aside from ‘not well-formed (invalid token)‘) until I pasted the contents into Notepad++, which displayed a strangely encoded character within the string. To fix the issue I needed to cleanse the extracted RSS feed just before it gets passed to PHP’s xml_parser, and after tracing the execution back I was able to pin-point it within rss_parse.inc right around line 130 or so.

$status = xml_parse( $this->parser, $source );

The contents of $source is the data within the rss feed and the point just before the parsing is conducted. The solution was simple – str_replace() the contents of $source before passing it to the parser.

function MagpieRSS ($source, $output_encoding='ISO-8859-1',
                        $input_encoding=null, $detect_encoding=true)
    {
		/*
		 * Feed cleansing (encoding replacement stuff) here CLF - 10/25/2008
		 * Should execute it on $source (the content extracted from feed)
		 */	
 
		 $source = str_replace('[bad data]','', $source);
 
		 /*
		  * END - feed cleansing
		  */
 
...

I wasn’t able to show the actual character I needed to replace, but you get the idea – replace [bad char] with the character(s) you want to remove before parsing. If you can’t seem to find it try pasting the section of bad data into Notepad++ and it will display it for you – notepad and wordpad will not. Invalid encoding/chars is only one way that feeds can be mal-formed, so if you run into other problems you would need to modify $source accordingly.

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As some of you already know, I’ve been working on a site that lets you automate searching on websites such as Craigslist. I recently needed to purchase a vehicle and was repeatedly beaten to the punch by others who were able to monitor the ads much closer than I. AdRavage lets you create search terms, how often to search those terms, and ultimately sends out emails and/or text messages when matching results are found. The site is in beta as of now, and will soon feature other websites besides Craigslist.

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I think this happened after upgrading a few versions back, but had never actively used categories until now. All of my posts should have been uncategorized by default, but for some reason a huge number of them simply did not have a corresponding record in wp_term_relationships and as a result were drifting along in non-categorized (not in the default category ‘uncategorized’ mind you) purgatory.

Rather than sift through each and every post to see if it has an entry in the table, the script below will

1. Loop through every post and check if post id exists in wp_term_relationships table
2. If the post id does have a corresponding object id in wp_term_relationships its skipped
3. If the post id does not have a corresponding object id in table then add an entry using defined CATEGORYID

Make sure that you define a valid CATEGORYID in the script (default is 1). Look in the table wp_terms and find the term_id for the category you want each missing post to have, then set CATEGORYID appropriately.

$totalUpdates
<?php
/*
 * cleanseWordpressPosts.php
 * Script used to re-insert posts information missing in wp_term_relationships to fix category issues
 * Written by: Chris Fay
 *9/15/2008
 *
 * To Use: First backup your database!
 * Copy the contents of this script to a file called updateCat.php
 * Upload updateCat.php to your web server
 * Verify the script is set to run in test mode first to see what data would be inserted
 * Browse to the script on the web server
 * Change testmode to false to allow script to update database   
 */
 
$dbhost = 'hostname'; //usually localhost
$dbuser = 'dbUserNameHere'; //replace dbUserNameHere with your username
$dbpass = 'dbPasswordHere'; //replace dbPasswordHere with your user's password
$dbname = 'dbName'; //replace dbName with the database name you want to connect to
define('TESTMODE', true); //leave true to get information on what would be updated - the database
						  //will not be touched if set to true - change to false to allow the script to modify the datbase
define ('CATEGORYID', 1); //the category id you would like all posts missing category info to have
 
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die                      ('Error connecting to mysql');
mysql_select_db($dbname);
 
//loop through each record, cleanse it, then re-insert it
$query  = "SELECT id FROM wp_posts";
$query2 = "SELECT object_id FROM wp_term_relationships";
$totalUpdates = 0;
 
$result = mysql_query($query);
 
if(TESTMODE) {
	echo "**** TEST MODE: No data will be modified in your database ****<br /><br />";
}
 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{	
	$id = $row['id']; 
	echo "Checking id: $id<br />";	
	$match = false;	
	$result2 =  mysql_query($query2);	
 
	while($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2, MYSQL_ASSOC))
	{
		if($id === $row2['object_id'])					
		{
			echo "Found match for id: " . $id . " - skipping. <br /><br />";
			$match = true;
			//no need to keep looping through since an item already exists
			break;						
		}
	}  
 
	if(!$match)
	{
		echo "No match found for id: ". $id . " - processing new category information<br />";
		$totalUpdates++;
 
		if(TESTMODE) 
		{
			$query3 = "INSERT into wp_term_relationships VALUES ($id,".CATEGORYID.",0)";	  	
			echo "The insert query we'd be using:<br /> $query3<br /><br />";				
		} 
		else
		{
			//update wp_term_relationships with missing id info
			echo "Creating category info for ID: $id. <br>";
 
			$query3 = "INSERT into wp_term_relationships VALUES ($id,".CATEGORYID."5,0)";	  					
			mysql_query($query3) or die('Error, insert query failed');
			echo "Category info updated successfully<br /><br />";	    				
		}
	}
 
} //end while
 
echo "Total updates: <strong>$totalUpdates</strong> <br/>All finished...<br />";
 
mysql_close($conn);

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