Great entertainer! I also learned that Stargate, that produced a lot of his songs were originally from Norway.

Thanks Ne-Yo!

Theme was Love & Marriage because it fell on Valentine’s Day.

Interesting people there…

Requirements:

• Event can span more than one day.
• Sort (3) events by those soonest to today’s date.
• If there are more than 3 events, show a link to View All Events
• Show mulit-day events – sort the list if the end date is before today’s date.
• Sort multi-day events by those soonest to today’s date, but if the start date has already past, still sort by that date or begin date.
• If the start and end year is the same, only display the year in the end date.
• If the start and end month is the same, only display month in the end date.
• List goes in sidebar.php

Simple Solution (still took a lot of hours to resolve):

• Create a category with slug “events” (used for archive) and (maybe or) change the “WHERE $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id = 9″ numeric value to your category(cateogries – yes even multiple).
• Create a post and add it to the events category.
• Create a custom field labeled “start_date” with a format of YYYY/MM/DD.
• Create a custom field labeled “end_date” with a format of YYYY/MM/DD.
• Both fields required even if only a single day event.
• Use a double meta_key post query.
• LIMIT 4 in the mySQL query limits the results to 4 (change to your number or remove) – view the Wordpress query values in the codex.

Code:

<!--p
  $today = date("Y/m/d");
  $querystr = "
  SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts
  LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta AS endDate ON(
  $wpdb->posts.ID = endDate.post_id
  AND endDate.meta_key = 'end_date'
  )
  LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta AS startDate ON(
  $wpdb->posts.ID = startDate.post_id
  AND startDate.meta_key = 'start_date'
  )
  LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships ON($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id)
  LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON($wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id)
  WHERE $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id = 9
  AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category'
  AND $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish'
  AND endDate.meta_value >= $today
  ORDER BY startDate.meta_value, startDate.meta_value ASC
  LIMIT 4
  ";

  $eventPosts = $wpd-->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);

?&gt;

<!--p $eventCount=0; if ($eventPosts) :-->
<!--p foreach ($eventPosts as $post):-->
<!--p setup_postdata($post);-->

<!--p if ($eventCount<3) :-->
  <!--p
  if(get_post_meta($pos-->ID, 'end_date', true)) {
    $event_end_date = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, 'end_date', true);
    $endDate = date("j F Y", strtotime($event_end_date));
    $displayEndDate = date("j F", strtotime($event_end_date));
    $endYear = date("Y", strtotime($event_end_date));
    $endMonth = date("F", strtotime($event_end_date));
  } else {
    $endDate = $startDate;
  }

  if(get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, 'start_date', true)) {
    $event_start_date = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, 'start_date', true);
    $startDate = date("j F Y", strtotime($event_start_date));
    $displayStartDate = date("j F", strtotime($event_start_date));
    $startYear = date("Y", strtotime($event_start_date));
    $startMonth = date("F", strtotime($event_start_date));
  } else {
    $startDate = $endDate;
  }
?&gt;
        <li><a title="&lt;?php the_title_attribute(); ?&gt;" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.est322.com/wp-admin/%3C?php the_permalink(); ?&gt;"><span class="date">
<!--p
  if( $endDate!=$startDate) {
    if( $endYear==$startYear ){
      if ( $endMonth==$startMonth){
        $displayStartDateAlt = date("j", strtotime($event_start_date))." - ";
        echo $displayStartDateAlt;
      } else {
        $displayStartDateAlt = date("j F", strtotime($event_start_date))." - ";
        echo $displayStartDateAlt;
      }
    } else {
      echo $displayStartDate." - ";
    }
  }
   echo $displayEndDate;
?>
</span>
</a></li>
        <li>No Upcoming Events</li>
» </span></a><a href="http://www.est322.com/wp-admin/%3C?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?&gt;/category/events/">View All Upcoming Events</a>

<!--p endif;-->

I will follow up with another post which I leverage the same query for my archive.php and just include a simple is_category() to run the code above for those posts in the Events category only.

I am sure this could be simplified, especially all the break-down of the date values into year month evaluations.

Also if you read above, you know it works for php4.+! Hoorah! (Stupid old host server technology.)

Being that it is winter and all, thought it appropriate to post some of their Lego – Empire Strikes Back items.

This was from set “7749 Echo Base“

So, went and did a quick look up and found it on dictionary and, well, realized I don’t use that word enough, I forgot it way back when, or I am just dumb.

Either way, now you know so you can use it on a going-forward basis.

Besides watching him in Drift Club, Doriten and Option videos, I was able to actually meet and enjoy some meals together.

I remember Takatori telling me that he was “bully” and others explaining his sticker to me, “His name means black, but his car is yellow.”

Watching him try to take out Kazuya Bai at Meihan was such a good time, even for Bai.

So, for those that had the priviledge of spending more time with him and the honor of getting a ride along, consider yourselves lucky.

You will be missed, Cool Roy!

Online tribute at Nori Yaro.

But, they have various content writers from several countries so to ease use of Wordpress, they should have it in their preferred language. I found Kau-Boy’s Backend Localization Plugin.

I installed it and got an undefined error on line 175. Did some research and found out that one, the host the client is on is old! Two, the plugin used PHP 5 functions which due to the host, obviously doesn’t work. Same thing with the latest WP designed for MySQL 5+… Did I mention the host is old!!!

Anyways, on to the code.

Original:

$files = scandir(WP_LANG_DIR);
foreach($files as $file){
  $fileParts = pathinfo($file);

  if($fileParts['extension'] == 'mo' &amp;&amp; (strlen($fileParts['filename']) <= 5)){
    $backend_locale_array[] = $fileParts['filename'];
  }
}

This is the trouble area using PHP 5 functions such as scandir and get file property ‘extension’.

Replace above with the PHP 4 fix. You may be able to remove $fileParts['extension'] as it may actually not be doing anything in this usage.

Updated:

* php 4 fix */
$dir = WP_LANG_DIR;
$dh = opendir($dir);
while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
  $files[] = $filename;
}

/* read the array */
foreach($files as $file){
  $fileParts = pathinfo($file);
  if(!isset($fileParts['filename']) &amp;&amp; $fileParts['extension'] == 'mo' &amp;&amp; (strlen($fileParts['filename']) <= 5)){
    $fileParts['filename'] = substr($fileParts['basename'], 0,strpos($fileParts['basename'],'.'));
    $backend_locale_array[] = $fileParts['filename'];
  }
}

Well, I guess a few airlines aren’t as concerned, like Luftansa. When you think about it, anything can almost be improvised into something – thanks MacGyver!

This actually makes sense. It’s more cost effective. Less environmental impact. And the utensils actually work without bending or breaking.