I got to talk with Ken Rickard of Palantir and Matt Butcher of HP. Luckily, Matt has been working on an interesting project called QueryPath that may help my University’s migration from a static HTML site (with over 90,000 pages) to Drupal. FSM, light my path!

Since we arrived earlier and departed later, I took the opportunity to take pictures around the many gorgeous locations Colorado has to offer. We went as far as Colorado Springs and Estes Park.

See my updated photostream from the trip: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwieeb/

$array = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

foreach ($array as &$element) {
  if ($element == 3)
    $element = 6;
}

print_r($array);

Your output would be:

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
    [2] => 6
    [3] => 4
    [4] => 5
)

Not only does this save on memory, it also allows you to change the actual items in the array. Quite useful.

Another example:

$array = array(
  'cow' => 'moo',
  'pig' => 'oink',
  'cat' => 'meow',
);

foreach ($array as $key => &$element) {
  if ($key == 'cat')
    $element = 'bark!';
}

print_r($array);

Output:

Array
(
    [cow] => moo
    [pig] => oink
    [cat] => bark!
)

View the photostream.

View the photostream.

I have yet to write a showcase page for it on this website, but you check out the plugin page on WordPress.org and download now: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scrollto-top/

I have also relocated the Specific Files file directory to /wp-content/specific-files, where it should be easier to maintain (rather than copying the file directory into a temporary location while the plugin updates and when it finishes updating to copy it all back again). Because of this change, I have removed the available downloads of previous versions. I’m still rather new to how to handle plugin upgrades and I’m sure a few of you have gotten errors while trying to upgrade this plugin. For that I am sorry. I’ll get better at this stuff.

So – that’s my announcement. Download now! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/specific-files-for-posts-and-pages/

• I have added the ability to include inline CSS and JavaScript. This nifty feature lets you write inline code in the header of certain pages and posts. Handy for people who can’t stand using the WordPress page editor to get that darned jQuery plugin working!
• I have added the ability to hide these new advanced options. Simple folk may not need such high-tech gear. Plus, the WordPress page editor is busy enough, why add a few lines if you’re not going to use them?
• I have improved security. Just a few permission and nonce checks before executing some code ought’a do!
• I have improved the filename scrubber. In 1.1.3, it didn’t even scrub out commas! Can you imagine a comma separated list of files with commas in the filenames? It would be a disaster! 1.2 fixes this, among other filename sanitation techniques.
• I have upgraded the screenshots for people to preview before they download. You can find them here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/specific-files-for-posts-and-pages/screenshots/

Download now! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/specific-files-for-posts-and-pages/

There are similar plugins out there, but my plugin was written ground-up for ease of use. Take a look at the showcase page I made for it and check it out for yourself!

I’ve submitted it to the WordPress plugin public repository but I’m still awaiting an approval. I heard it could take several days or even a week before they approve new plugins…which doesn’t really make sense to me because they aren’t approving the plugin at all…they’re approving the title and description that I wrote for them.

I’ll keep you all updating when/if it gets added.

December 11th Edit: Woot! They added it: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/specific-files-for-posts-and-pages/