The purpose of this post is to show how to link a dailymotion video rss feed to your twitter account using Codebird php, so when the script runs it adds one video post to your twitter account.. can then be run via a cron setup (won’t cover here as system dependent – windows v linux servers).

You need three things sorted out first..

(1) Down the codebird for php library from https://github.com/jublonet/codebird-php

(2) Obtain a twitter developer api key details from https://apps.twitter.com/app/new (best to log into your twitter account first)

(3) Have a Dailymotion rss feed – usually of format http://www.dailymotion.com/rss/user/[daily motion user name] – where [daily motion user name] is your user account name of account.

The code looks like the following.. things to replace are in [] brackets.

Note: I have taken out my code for shortening links and auto hash tagging using str_ireplace(), but the principles here should get you in the right direction.

require_once("codebird.php"); // reference the codebird php library file (downloaded in step one above)

class BlogPost
{
    var $date;
    var $ts;
    var $link;
    var $title;
    var $text;
}

class BlogFeed
{
    var $posts = array();

    function __construct($file_or_url)
    {
        $file_or_url = $this->resolveFile($file_or_url);
        if (!($x = simplexml_load_file($file_or_url)))  {
           return;
        }

        foreach ($x->channel->item as $item)
        {

            $post = new BlogPost();
            $post->date  = (string) $item->pubDate;
            $post->ts    = strtotime($item->pubDate);
            $post->link  = (string) $item->link;
            $post->title = (string) $item->title;

            $post->text = ""; // not using this for tweets

            $this->posts[] = $post;
        }
    }

    private function resolveFile($file_or_url) {
        if (!preg_match('|^https?:|', $file_or_url))
            $feed_uri = $file_or_url;
        else
            $feed_uri = $file_or_url;

        return $feed_uri;
    }

    private function summarizeText($summary) {
        $summary = strip_tags($summary);

        // Truncate summary line to 100 characters
        $max_len = 100;
        if (strlen($summary) > $max_len)
            $summary = substr($summary, 0, $max_len) . '...';

        return $summary;
    }
}


// read in posts

$ps = new BlogFeed("http://www.dailymotion.com/rss/user/[daily motion user name]"); // your dailymotion rss feed (step three above)

$posts = $ps->posts;

$c=count($posts);
$r=rand(1,$c);
$r=$r-1;
$p=$posts[$r];
$link=$p->link;
$title=$p->title;
if($link!="") {


$message = $title." ".$link; // note that the twitter 140 character limit applies to the total of message sent

// now tweet - [] key information unique to twitter account - obtain keys via https://apps.twitter.com/app/new (step two above)

\Codebird\Codebird::setConsumerKey('[YOURKEY]', '[YOURSECRET]');
$cb = \Codebird\Codebird::getInstance();
$cb->setToken("[YOURTOKEN]", "[YOURTOKENSECRET]");

$params = array(
    'status' => $message
);

$reply = $cb->statuses_update($params);

// display message to screen

echo($message);

}

?>

Note: disclaimers on code/snippet usage applies – no responsibility on usage.

This relates to office365 onedrive for business

A list of three I believe to be simple things I would like, really like, to be sorted out on onedrive online so I can actually use it without ripping my hair out on a day to day basis.. pretty please…

1) ‘Keep me signed in’ tick box actually worked on firefox browsers – no cleaning software or cookie removal plugins, just doesn’t work on firefox fullstop. Tried a fresh profile, still doesn’t work, forced to play enter the email/password game each time.

2) Developers stopped or reduced making subtle changes to the login form url and/or field names – ok storing your email address and password in browser wallets isn’t ideal, but given (1) above, it becomes tiresome when the url or field names change, so then your email and password isn’t automatically filled in, so then have to play hunt the password game to login each time – kind of important if shares are sent to me with login forced on them.. (note I do have a firefox plugin which allows SSL / https passwords to be auto filed, but like all sites only works if the login form urls are kept consistent… unlike right now).

3) Once logged into a onedrive shared FOLDER, if I move from ‘FILES’ to ‘OUR FILES’, then switch back to ‘FILES’ again all the shared files disappear – only solution is to log out, then (hoping url hasn’t been altered rofl in the meantime) re-enter email/password details, and log back in, just remembering not to switch to ‘OUR FILES’ by mistake – this tends to happen if the same client has sent more than one share eg input folder as one share and an output folder as another share – annoying as hell anyway.

Many other issues on Onedrive online, but if these 3 issues above were fixed, could possibly regain my hair cover and lower overall stress levels.

Additional: The protected mode ‘file is corrupted’ message when two different people using excel 2016 share the same document but slightly different versions of the software used ought to be changed though – cannot keep expecting clients to change their security settings just because say my version of excel 2016 is 2 weeks more up to date than theirs or vice-a-versa.. tested and found to be the case. Probably less of a case on forced updating windows 10, but as those people who might rely on expensive mobile broadband turn off auto updates (5GB == £40, which can soon mount up on office 2016 updates), is definitely an issue in my opinion.