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C#: authentication at proxy
C#: basic authentication at XML web-service
In order to do a basic authentication, with username and password, for your request to remote XML web-service you have to set Credentials property of request object.
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C#: send and recieve SOAP packets as plain text
This is a simple example of a way to exchange plain text SOAP messages with XML web-service, without the use of OOP wrappers. This code may be refactored by removing the use of XmlDocument and XmlTextWriter classes.
Drupal 6: customize taxonomy lists sort order with views
Drupal 6 taxonomy lists have a strict sort order: by "sticky" and by creation date. This sort order is hardcoded within the taxonomy core module and hardly can be changed by custom themes or modules. BUT we got VIEWS!
Let's see how to sort node teasers by title:
- Go Administer -> Site building -> Views, find taxonomy_term view, enable it, click edit link
- select Defaults tab
Fix for Drupal 6 dhtml_menu module error Invalid argument supplied for foreach statement
This log warning is not a rare issue for those who got Drupal dhtml_menu module installed. Usually it something like:
warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() **** in */sites/all/modules/dhtml_menu/dhtml_menu.module on line ***.
Gallery Assist for Drupal 7
I've started coding my own Mod of the really popular CMS Drupal module Gallery Assist, in order to make it compatible with CMS Drupal version 7.x, because I'm using it in my web-projects, and I hope to move them to version 7 during this year.
Hope to success with this task.
Update March 30 2016: I'm back to this project - at this moment Settings section is ported, I'm working on creating and editing gallery pages.
Oracle: connection string without tnsnames.ora file
Sometimes you have to code an Oracle connection and you don't have a way to modify tnsnames.ora. This is the way to solve this problem. Use this form of oracle connection string:
Data Source=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=MyHost)(PORT=MyPort)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME=MyOracleSID)));User Id=myUsername;Password=myPassword;
Workaround on SMF error mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in Subs-Db-mysql.php
After updating SMF forum engine to version 2.0 I've noticed unnormal grow of error log with messages like:
mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in /.../smf/Sources/Subs-Db-mysql.php on line NNN