Comments for Veno Designs

Comment on More Power to ExpressionEngine URLs by Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:21:13 +0000

Hey Dennis – thanks for the code, that’s awesome!

Comment on More Power to ExpressionEngine URLs by Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:36:49 +0000

Disregard previous comment…

For anybody trying to do this, I ran into a few bugs in the code. Here’s the controller I eventually got working:

This also will render global variables.

core->_initialize_core(); $this->EE = $this->core->EE;


        /* This is required to initialize template rendering */

        require APPPATH.'libraries/Template'.EXT;

    }
    private function _render($template_group, $template, $opts = array()) {

        /* Create a new EE Template Instance */

        $this->EE->TMPL = new EE_Template();
        /* Run through the initial parsing phase, set output type */

        $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_and_parse($template_group, $template, FALSE);

        $this->EE->output->out_type = $this->EE->TMPL->template_type;
        /* Return source. If we were given opts to do template replacement, parse them in */

        if(count($opts) > 0) {

            $this->EE->output->set_output(

                $this->EE->TMPL->parse_variables(

                	$this->EE->TMPL->parse_globals($this->EE->TMPL->final_template),

                	array($opts)

                )

            );

        } else {

            $this->EE->output->set_output($this->EE->TMPL->final_template);

        }

    }
    function test($ext) {

        return $this->_render('test', 'testing', array(

			'var' => 'yes',

        ));

    }

}

/* End of file */

Comment on More Power to ExpressionEngine URLs by Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:18:46 +0000

Is there a way to make global variables work in these templates? Things like {site_name}, {site_url}, etc etc?

Comment on Emulating Ruby’s “method_missing” in Python by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:51:43 +0000

You have a good (and valid) point; at a glance I still think of it as being the same general idea, but the execution path is different, yes.

I bet there’s a way to do it more like method_missing beyond copying every standard method. If I ever get free time, I’d look into it for the hell of it.

Comment on Emulating Ruby’s “method_missing” in Python by dgx

dgx — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:24:00 +0000

Well, it’s not like method_missing you know.
Because method_missing is called only if Ruby doesn’t find the method required.
In your implementation, __getattr__ is called all the time.
It means that if I want to do
print twitter
it will fail, because there is no method __str__ nor __repr__ inside method_dictionary.

An ugly way to pass through this would be to copy every standard method inside it, but well… it’s pretty damn ugly isn’t it?

Comment on On Deactivating My Facebook Account by Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:09:25 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. But where’s the ‘like’ button?

Comment on More Power to ExpressionEngine URLs by Patrik Engborg

Patrik Engborg — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:50:18 +0000

Great stuff! I had almost given up getting CI and EE to work side by side. So this is exactly what i needed.
Also, you convinced me to give django/python a go. Most useful blogpost in a long time. Thank you so much!

Comment on Emulating Ruby’s “method_missing” in Python by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:22:39 +0000

Hey there!

Sorry, I just got time to circle back to this… I actually responded to your comment over on r/python, but I’ll put it here as well for the sake of complete-ness. Thanks for commenting!

I personally don’t like it being a freely-available trick, as I think it introduces rather sloppy coding practices in general. There’s very few cases where this even makes sense, at least in my opinion, hence why I’d probably never submit a PEP on it. Cheers, though.

Comment on Emulating Ruby’s “method_missing” in Python by mvrak

mvrak — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:48:18 +0000

If you really like it then submit a PEP. If the community agrees then you’ve just strengthened Python. There are more coders available than idea people!

Also, why call it “emulating”? It is really “implementing” unless you are making an incomplete copy.

Comment on Hacking the Human Brain by Nishant

Nishant — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:05:24 +0000

thanks a bunch for the tutorial.
I really think its more of psychology but you sure did taught me a lot of things.