bat file to publish web application

THE NEED:
I wanted a quick bat file to publish a .net project I have to dev or test when the need arises. I also wanted make it kind of modular in case i need this for more projects.

THE SOLUTION:

The main bat file is store in a central location: C:\publishToLocation.bat



SET /P variable=Are you sure you wish to PUBLISH to server? (y/n) 

IF /i NOT "%variable%"=="y" GOTO end_process

echo Publishing site %PROJECT_ROOT% to %WEB_ROOT% 


DEL "%WEB_ROOT%" /Q || goto DeleteError 

call %msBuildDir%\msbuild.exe "%PROJECT_ROOT%%FileName%" /t:Build;PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder /p:Configuration=Release;AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=False;_PackageTempDir="%WEB_ROOT%" /v:quiet || goto Error 


goto Success


:end_process
echo project not published
goto End


:Error
echo Error publishing project
goto End


:DeleteError
echo Could Not Empty Folder: "%WEB_ROOT%" 
goto End

:Success
echo Project published successfully   
:End






The next is a bat file I place on my desktop: publish[PROJECTNAME].bat



@ECHO OFF


SET msBuildDir=%WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319
SET WEB_ROOT=[DIRECTORY PATH TO DEPLOY TO]
SET PROJECT_ROOT=[DIRECTORY PATH TO PROJECT]
set FileName=[PROJECTFILENAME].csproj 


call C:\_PROJECTS\Custom\publishToLocation.bat

Be careful not to leave spaces before or after variables

Check if display:none is set in JQuery

Found this somewhere on the intranet and reposting so I will remember. :)

$(element).is(":visible")

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Wordpress Password Protected Page - Add error message

A client wanted to password protect a page and have a custom login for the pages. They also requested the password page show an error message. The first part of this request is truely easy. I place a hook inside the theme's function.php like this:

add_filter( 'the_password_form', 'custom_password_form' );
function custom_password_form() {
global $post;
$label = 'pwbox-'.( empty( $post->ID ) ? rand() : $post->ID );
$o = '

<div class="main login">
                <div class="logo"> </div>
<div class="login_form">
<h2>Seating Options Pricing Tool</h2>
<form class="protected-post-form" action="' .  get_option('site_url') . '/wp-pass.php" method="post">

<label for="' . $label . '">Password</label>
<input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" size="20"  />

<div class="form_options">
<div class="remember"><input type="checkbox"> Remember Me</div>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Log In" class="submitBtn" />
</div>
</form>
</div>

</div>


';
return $o;
}

Then I modify the page to show certain content if authenticated correctly and the login form again if not:


<?php get_header(); ?>


<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if ( !post_password_required($post) ) {
        // logged in
        <div class="content">

   the_content();
        </div>
}
else
{
//pulls login page from functions.php

        <div class="login"> 

   the_content(); 

        </div>
}
?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>



The request to have an error for invalid requested was a little tricky. First I copied the wp-pass.php file and copied it to my theme. (so when I update my wordpress I wont loose this)  Next I modified the custom_password_form function's form field to post to my themes form.  Afterwards I modified the copied wp-pass.php file like so:


<?php
/**
 * Creates the password cookie and redirects back to where the
 * visitor was before.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/** Make sure that the WordPress bootstrap has run before continuing. */
require( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-load.php');

$redirect = wp_get_referer();
$passwordtried='';

if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() )
$_POST['post_password'] = stripslashes($_POST['post_password']);

$redirect= str_replace("?try=1", "", $redirect);
$passwordtried='?try=1';

// 10 days
setcookie('wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH, $_POST['post_password'], time() + 864000, COOKIEPATH);

wp_safe_redirect($redirect.$passwordtried);
exit;
?>

Since the authentication happens later in the page load by reading the cookie I am merely adding a querystring variable to the redirect of "try=1" I suppose if it were necessary I could increment this amount but for this client it was not.

Next I modified my page.php to look for the querystring only when the page has been authenticated correctly otherwise I am showing the login form again. If I find the try querystring variable I remove it and redirect. I am doing this above the get_header tag to make sure I don't get any errors.


<?php if ( !post_password_required($post) ) {

//do this before content is loaded. this is removing and incorrect password tries from the url
if($_GET["try"])
{
$redirect = wp_get_referer();
$redirect= str_replace("?try=1", "", $redirect);
wp_safe_redirect($redirect);
}
}

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

Now I modified my custom_password_form function inside the functions.php inside my theme again. This time I am adding checks for this try querystring variable and adding classes and spans:

function custom_password_form() {

global $post;

$label = 'pwbox-'.( empty( $post->ID ) ? rand() : $post->ID );

$o = '

<div class="main login">

                <div class="logo"> </div>

<div class="login_form">

<h2>Seating Options Pricing Tool</h2>

<form class="protected-post-form" action="' .  get_option('site_url') . '/wp-pass.php" method="post">

<label for="' . $label . '">Password'.(($_GET["try"])?" <span class='error'>That was an invalid password</span>":"").'</label>

<input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" size="20" '.(($_GET["try"])?'class="error"':'').'  />

<div class="form_options">

<div class="remember"><input type="checkbox"> Remember Me</div>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Log In" class="submitBtn" />

</div>

</form>

</div>

</div>

';

return $o;

}

Finally I modify the style sheet with my new classes.

span.error{

color:red;

display:block;

float:right;

}

input.error

{

border:1px solid red;

}

Hope this helps someone. If you know of a different approach let me know. 

Free Online Bug Tracking via Google Docs and Google Sites

So I developed a small wordpress plug-in and find using the forums cumbersome in tracking bugs. The task to find free hosted bug tracking for small projects seemed impossible to find. Of course everyone wants money for what they have written or they wrote an open source project that requires me to pay for hosting. I didn't want that. This is a small project that might disappear.

In comes google to the rescue. I started thinking I would just provide a public spreadsheet for people to enter info into. Well I didn't really like that idea. So here is what I came up with:

https://sites.google.com/site/medialibarycategories/

A google site that has the google form and the that form's spreadsheet in the site. Add a logo and bam instant and free bug tracking software. I must admit its not much to look at but I can always come back and fix that.