brand_infector

I created a plugin that uses MagpieRSS, curl and GD2 library to retrieve ads from a feed and insert it into my brands administration panel. I can then add description, etc. and publish the ad.

What I use more though is a plugin attached to that with which I can manually upload pictures from my harddisk, click upload file and when it’s up I can add description, title, …

A | B | C Navigation:
I created a custom table called brands where I store all the information about a brand.
For Ex.
brand_name = “Apple Computer”

What I do with the navigation function is to take all brands (over 50 at the mo’), pick the first letter (A for Apple) and insert it in an array IF it isn’t already in there. Then display the array elements with foreach.

I choose this solution at the beginning when I didn’t have much brands and didn’t want to display letters I wouldn’t feature, like C or X or so. a navigation like A | B | E | F

I’ll maybe go back to a simpler non-dynamic solution in the future when I’ve got all the letters ??

Where’s your Song Collection blog at ?
Do you know about extending the Search to more tables?

Very great feedback so far , thanks!

I created one plugin each for the ads, brands and slogans.

The plugins themselves feature the display-info process, navigation by brand letter and industry, rss feed parsing with ad-retrieval, advertisement uploading with automatic resizing. Along with that are some handmade mysql tables.

I still have to expand the search to all of these tables though and I don’t know how to do that.

Thanks again. Keep the comments coming.

Best regards,

Nader

too bad nobody has answered my post yet. i still don’t figure how it works.

yes i’m considering releasing it but it’ll still take some time. there’s a bit of cleanup i have to do.