Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Windows MAMP Tutorial

Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Windows MAMP Tutorial

As with many issues with web applications there’s the …

• client side, aspects to Windows usage, as outlined with yesterday’s Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Windows Client Tutorial … and then there’s the …
• server side to Windows usage, as we address today

In addressing the Windows server side to the issues, we address, today, straight “localhost” URL ways of navigating to the “Gimp Guillotine Follow Up” web application you might remember would be …

… the reason for issues primarily …

• file delimitation is different
• temporary file place changes ( and we ended up choosing $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] … C:\MAMP\htdocs\ )
• ImageMagick setup is different, as are the command line switches and syntax
• ffmpeg setup is different, as are the command line switches and syntax

… for this change to “parent” gimp_guillotine_followup.php‘s Gimp Guillotine Follow Up PHP web application that is supervising the “child” the changed PHP Animated GIF creator tutorial_to_animated_gif.php helper.

Did you know?

We worked on this blog posting on a Windows 10 laptop initially with no ImageMagick nor ffmpeg installed. We were gobsmacked installing ImageMagick on this laptop that ffmpeg came packaged up in the install as well, and meant the path code below was the go …

<?php

$videopath="C:\\PROGRA~1\\IMAGEM~1.0-Q\\";
$immogpath="C:\\PROGRA~1\\IMAGEM~1.0-Q\\";

?>

Why the “8dot3” (back to the really old days of DOS accessible via “DIR /X”) path representations? Well, it means the need for double quote worry is lessened in the code.

More on this tomorrow.

Previous relevant Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Windows Client Tutorial is shown below.

Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Windows Client Tutorial

Moving on from yesterday’s Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Intranet Video Tutorial‘s progress, today, we test the Gimp Guillotine Follow Up web application on some Windows web browsers, and fix issues not immediately apparent when your main testing platform is macOS or Mac OS X.

Some issues found were …

• HTML iframe overflowing the nesting “td” (table cell) element had scroll bars we did not enjoys, with Windows client web browsers … the fix being …
  
<h4>Input Images</h4></td><td style='height:100px;overflow:auto;'><iframe id=ggif style='display:inline-block;height:100%;width:95px;' scrolling=no frameborder=0 src='/PHP/animegif/tutorial_to_animated_gif.php?huhv=y&calledbygg=" . $ru . "'></iframe></td></tr></table>


• the MAMP HTTP://localhost:8888/ $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] will not work on a Windows client, we’ve decided, and so now test for a Window client scenario …
  <?php
  
$eeee="y";


$user_agent = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
function getOS() { // thanks to https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/495588/getting-users-os-info-out-of-server-http-user-agent
global $user_agent;
$os_platform = "win Unknown OS Platform";
$os_array = array(
'/windows nt 10/i' => 'Windows 10',
'/windows nt 6.3/i' => 'Windows 8.1',
'/windows nt 6.2/i' => 'Windows 8',
'/windows nt 6.1/i' => 'Windows 7',
'/windows nt 6.0/i' => 'Windows Vista',
'/windows nt 5.2/i' => 'Windows Server 2003/XP x64',
'/windows nt 5.1/i' => 'Windows XP',
'/windows xp/i' => 'Windows XP',
'/windows nt 5.0/i' => 'Windows 2000',
'/windows me/i' => 'Windows ME',
'/win98/i' => 'Windows 98',
'/win95/i' => 'Windows 95',
'/win16/i' => 'Windows 3.11',
'/macintosh|mac os x/i' => 'Mac OS X',
'/mac_powerpc/i' => 'Mac OS 9',
'/linux/i' => 'Linux',
'/ubuntu/i' => 'Ubuntu',
'/iphone/i' => 'iPhone',
'/ipod/i' => 'iPod',
'/ipad/i' => 'iPad',
'/android/i' => 'Android',
'/blackberry/i' => 'BlackBerry',
'/webos/i' => 'Mobile'
);


foreach ($os_array as $regex => $value) {


if (preg_match($regex, $user_agent)) {
$os_platform = $value;
}


}


return $os_platform;
}


if (substr(strtoupper(getOS()),0,3) === 'WIN') { $eeee=""; }

  ?>
  … and switch off Intranet Video functionality if Windows, as a client, is detected …
  <?php echo ”
  
var evalcmd='';

function imselset() {
if (document.getElementById('imsel')) {
if (document.getElementById('imsel').innerHTML.indexOf('video') != -1) {
if (document.getElementById('imsel').value != 'video') {
if (document.URL.indexOf('localhost') == -1) {
evalcmd='" . $eeee . "'; // evalcmd='y';
}
} else {
setTimeout(imselset, 1000);
}
} else {
setTimeout(imselset, 1000);
}
} else {
setTimeout(imselset, 1000);
}
}

setTimeout(imselset, 1000);

  “; ?>

… and along the way we …

• introduced a “readonly” attribute to the main textbox on a ?filespec=/tmp/ggblahblahblahtmp*.*&andgo=y scenario
• stop Animated GIF image distortion, by removing height CSS styling

… for this change to “parent” gimp_guillotine_followup.php‘s Gimp Guillotine Follow Up PHP web application that is supervising the “child” the changed PHP Animated GIF creator tutorial_to_animated_gif.php helper.

Previous relevant Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Intranet Video Tutorial is shown below.

Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Intranet Video Tutorial

If you were paying uncompromising attention to yesterday’s Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Animated GIF Tutorial you may have tweaked to and or piqued to …

slideshow, PDF, video (maybe)

… and then maybe even recalled a couple of things explained in Animated GIF Creator Video Intranet Tutorial (channelling Animated GIF Creator Video Revisit Tutorial) …

… one reason being that we do not want to install the wonderful ffmpeg (command line video creation tool) on the RJM Programming domain, but, in macOS, here with MAMP, we are quite happy to live with the Homebrew (Terminal application’s) install …

… setting up what could be “lost functionality”, but today, we come around to either adding a new …


Convert to Video


… dropdown option should all be ritchy ditch, and if not, often we will add new “Advice” dropdown options to remind the user what they’d need to arrange to get to a “Convert to Video” scenario.

… all this referring to our current Gimp Guillotine Follow Up web application project’s Animated GIF Creator web application helper. So, why don’t we give our Gimp Guillotine Follow Up web application aficionados who have installed a local Apache web server like MAMP (most likely on macOS or Mac OS X) and the wonderful ffmpeg command line the chance to turn (maybe) into (likely) (given small amounts of image data involved) via “Intranet” feeling methodologies?

In order to make this change to “parent” gimp_guillotine_followup.php‘s Gimp Guillotine Follow Up PHP web application that is supervising the “child” the changed PHP Animated GIF creator tutorial_to_animated_gif.php we need to …

… trying to help create a couple more woooooorrrrrrllllldddd videos!

Previous relevant Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Animated GIF Tutorial is shown below.

Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Animated GIF Tutorial

Onto yesterday’s Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Media Tutorial media functionality additions of …

• slideshow, PDF, video (maybe) … today we wanted to add …
• animated GIF

… into the mix. Considering our changed gimp_guillotine_followup.php Gimp Guillotine Follow Up PHP web application is supervising our changed PHP Animated GIF creator tutorial_to_animated_gif.php, how hard can that be? In our defence, it took us a day to get around how to have that …


top.location.href=cbggis.split('?')[0].split('#')[0] + '?filespec=/tmp/" . ggserver_remote_addr() . "tmp*.*&andgo=y';


… Javascript codeline not put a stop to our ambition, clobbering any further inhouse work that the child PHP Animated GIF Creator web application does creating any animated GIFs (which navigates away in order to do this). But the (albeit pretty obvious, but neat) idea did finally dawn on us, enabling us to have our cake and eat it too, several seconds ahead of the execution of the Javascript codeline above, timing …


document.getElementById('myform').target='zzlocit';
document.getElementById('mysubmit').click();


… to be setting the navigation target to be a PHP helper webpage existent iframe element named ‘zzlocit’ be mapped to the form’s target attribute and clicking that form’s submit button programmatically to create the required animated GIF before we navigate away (with no clobbering or other ancillary violence).

Along the way, we personalized, via a user’s IP address and web browser type, the names of media files so that it is less likely any user will clobber any other user’s work, nor see work of another user, when using the web application.

Previous relevant Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Media Tutorial is shown below.

Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Media Tutorial

Yesterday’s Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Tutorial introduced file browsing, of local files, as an input data possibility with our inhouse Gimp Guillotine Follow Up web application.

That opens the door to other media output possibilities, those being, at least for today …

• slideshow (via a button) or non-mobile slideshow (via onmouseover hover over the “a” slide link(s))
• PDF via the great ImageMagick‘s command line “convert” functionality …
• video on local web server if you heed the advice of Animated GIF Creator Video Revisit Tutorial‘s (albeit biassed towards macOS and MAMP) local Apache web server usage advice as per …
   

  1. in that public RJM Programming mode of use above … but even better can be …
  2. download relevant code to macOS MAMP local web server places off /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] places …
     • GIFEncoder.class.php … thanks … to to “PHP/animegif/”
     • tutorial_to_animated_gif.php to “PHP/animegif/”
     • animegif.php to “PHP/animegif/”
     • haiku_animated_gif.html to “PHP/animegif/”
     • macos_ffmpeg_convert.php to $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’]
     • macos_textutil_convert.php to $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’]
     • macos_say_record.php to $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’]
     • client_browsing.htm to “HTMLCSS/”
     • emailhtml.php to “HTMLCSS/”
     • read_exif_off_image_rotate.php to “PHP/”

     … and check the code for the validity of any ImageMagick paths … and if not all these conditions, simulate the same and cobble it together in the code

  … one reason being that we do not want to install the wonderful ffmpeg on the RJM Programming domain, but, in macOS, here with MAMP, we are quite happy to live with the Homebrew install …

  
brew install ffmpeg

  

  … to open a whole new woooooorrrrlllllddd of video creation opportunities using this MAMP local web URL …

   
  … and now add …
   
  
(a changed) gimp_guillotine_followup.php to "PHP/" (supervising a changed PHP Animated GIF creator)

  … to end up, for video via image file browsing and onto (the brilliant) ffmpeg conversions, a macOS MAMP URL might go …
  HTTP://localhost:8888/PHP/gimp_guillotine_followup.php

It can be hard achieving cross-domain PDF presentations in the “client only” wooooooooorrrrrrrllllllllldddd, so we took advantage of the PHP “server” woooooooooorrrrrrrrllllllllllddddd’s …

<?php

if (isset($_POST['getme'])) {
if (file_exists('/tmp/ggpdftmp.pdf') && $_POST['getme'] == 'pdf') {
header("Content-type:application/pdf");
echo file_get_contents('/tmp/ggpdftmp.pdf');
}
if (file_exists('/tmp/ggvideo.mov') && $_POST['getme'] == 'video') {
echo '<html><body><video style=width:100%;height:900px; type=video/mp4 controls><source type=video/mp4 src=data:video/mp4;base64,' . base64_encode(file_get_contents('/tmp/ggvideo.mov')) . '></source></video></body></html>';
}
exit;
} else if (isset($_GET['getme'])) {
if (file_exists('/tmp/ggpdftmp.pdf') && $_GET['getme'] == 'pdf') {
header("Content-type:application/pdf");
echo file_get_contents('/tmp/ggpdftmp.pdf');
}
if (file_exists('/tmp/ggvideo.mov') && $_GET['getme'] == 'video') {
echo '<html><body><video style=width:100%;height:900px; type=video/mp4 controls><source type=video/mp4 src=data:video/mp4;base64,' . base64_encode(file_get_contents('/tmp/ggvideo.mov')) . '></source></video></body></html>';
}
exit;
}

?>

… approach, getting better results cross-domain.

Yes, let’s face it, and let’s narrow it down, without code changes, to macOS or Mac OS X or Linux or Unix operating system underpinnings, given the /tmp/ hardcodings we have going, so far, is the environment best suited to this code.

Previous relevant Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Tutorial is shown below.

Gimp Guillotine Image File Browse Tutorial

The input data arrangements for our inhouse “Gimp Guillotine Followup” PHP web application of Gimp Guillotine Marquee Placeholder Tutorial involved …

• relative or absolute image URL(s) … pretty unwieldy and not inviting for so many users … but today we extend functionality and allow for …
• image file browsing … via the wonderful File API (though all that is more or less set in stone as distinct from the integrations to get to use it)

You are presented with a new browse button, from which you can select image files that our changed gimp_guillotine_followup.php PHP Gimp Followup web application which will now integrate with the changed tutorial_to_animated_gif.php inhouse PHP Animated GIF Creator web application to achieve our aims (where $ru=urlencode(explode(‘#’, explode(‘?’, $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’])[0])[0]); // in work below) …


<table><tr><td>
<h3>RJM Programming - August, 2018</h3>" . $erroris . "
<h4>Input Images</h4></td><td style='height:100px;'><iframe id=ggif style='display:inline-block;height:100%;width:95px;' frameborder=0 src='/PHP/animegif/tutorial_to_animated_gif.php?calledbygg=" . $ru . "'></iframe></td></tr></table>


… that “calledbygg” used extensively by the Javascript and PHP logic in the PHP Animated GIF Creator web application integrations.

Of interest, too, regarding the data storage arrangements for these integrations ….

• we use /tmp/ folders to store ggtmp*.* image files … and so …
• we set up the scenario where GET argument URLs containing …
  HTTP://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/PHP/gimp_guillotine_followup.php?filespec=/tmp/ggtmp*.*&andgo=y
  … for PHP Gimp Followup web application usage can be called by the Animated GIF Creator child to climb back up to the web browser address bar for a restart, once the /tmp/ files are created and in place …
• data URIs are used to get back to HTML img “src” attribute friendliness/universality via PHP Gimp Followup web application‘s PHP …
  <?php
  
function datauriit($infn) {
if (strpos(("~" . $infn), "~/tmp/") !== false) {
if (file_exists($infn)) {
return 'data:image/' . str_replace("jpg","jpeg",strtolower(explode(".", $infn)[-1 + sizeof(explode(".", $infn))])) . ';base64,' . base64_encode(file_get_contents($infn));
}
}
return $infn;
}

  ?>
• Ajax/FormData “midair” feeling “self-calling” is used to create the /tmp/ files via PHP Animated GIF Creator web application’s PHP …
  <?php
  
if (isset($_POST['justuntmpthis']) && !isset($_POST['justtmpthis'])) {
$fsuff=1;
$ffsuff=1;
while ($ffsuff == $fsuff) {
$ffsuff++;
foreach (glob('/tmp/ggtmp' . $fsuff . '.*') as $ggfilename) {
unlink($ggfilename);
$fsuff=$ffsuff;
}
}
exit;
}

if (isset($_POST['justtmpthis'])) {
if (isset($_POST['justuntmpthis'])) {
$fsuff=1;
$ffsuff=1;
while ($ffsuff == $fsuff) {
$ffsuff++;
foreach (glob('/tmp/ggtmp' . $fsuff . '.*') as $ggfilename) {
unlink($ggfilename);
$fsuff=$ffsuff;
}
}
}
$fsuff=1;
$ffsuff=1;
while ($ffsuff == $fsuff) {
$ffsuff++;
foreach (glob('/tmp/ggtmp' . $fsuff . '.*') as $ggfilename) {
$fsuff=$ffsuff;
}
}
$datain=str_replace(' ','+',urldecode($_POST['justtmpthis']));
if (strpos($datain, 'data:') !== false) {
file_put_contents('/tmp/ggtmp' . $fsuff . '.' . explode(';',explode('/', $datain )[1])[0], base64_decode(explode(';base64,', $datain )[1] ));
} else if (strpos(strtolower($datain), 'http') !== false) {
file_put_contents('/tmp/ggtmp' . $fsuff . '.' . explode('#',explode('?',explode('.', $datain)[-1 + sizeof(explode('.', $datain))])[0])[0], file_get_contents($datain));
} else if (trim($datain) != '') {
copy($datain, '/tmp/ggtmp' . $fsuff . '.' . explode('#',explode('?',explode('.', $datain)[-1 + sizeof(explode('.', $datain))])[0])[0]);
}
exit;
}

$cbgg=" align='center'>Tutorial Slideshow to Animated GIF ";
$cbor=" ... or ... ";
if (isset($_GET['calledbygg'])) { $cbgg=">"; $cbor=""; }

  ?>
  … and Javascript …
  <?php echo ”
  
var cbggis=location.search.split('called' + 'bygg=')[1] ? decodeURIComponent(location.search.split('called' + 'bygg=')[1]).split('&')[0] : '';
var ggvals=[], ggvalssuffix='', ggvalslen=0, ggvalgoes=0;

function maybeggmore() { //tval, tid, tis) {
if (document.URL.indexOf('calledbygg=') != -1 && document.getElementById('slideshow' + ggvalssuffix).value.indexOf('data:') == 0 && ggvals.length == ggvalslen) {
ggvals.push(document.getElementById('slideshow' + ggvalssuffix).value);
if (ggvalssuffix == '') { ggvalssuffix='2'; } else { ggvalssuffix='' + eval(1 + eval('' + ggvalssuffix)); }
//alert(ggvals[ggvalslen]); //tval + ' ' + tid + ' ' + tis.id);
ggvalslen=eval('' + ggvals.length);
ggvalgoes=0;
iizhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
iizform=new FormData();
if (ggvalslen == 1) {
iizform.append('justuntmpthis', 'y');
if (parent.document.getElementById('ggif')) {
parent.document.body.style.cursor='progress';
}
}
iizform.append('justtmpthis', ggvals[eval(-1 + ggvalslen)]);
iizhr.open('post', './tutorial_to_animated_gif.php?xxx=' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 198756432), true);
iizhr.send(iizform);
setTimeout(maybeggmore, 5000);
} else if (document.URL.indexOf('calledbygg=') != -1 && document.getElementById('slideshow' + ggvalssuffix).value.toLowerCase().indexOf('http') == 0 && ggvals.length == ggvalslen) {
ggvals.push(document.getElementById('slideshow' + ggvalssuffix).value);
if (ggvalssuffix == '') { ggvalssuffix='2'; } else { ggvalssuffix='' + eval(1 + eval('' + ggvalssuffix)); }
ggvalgoes=0;
//alert('2:' + ggvals[ggvalslen]); //tval + ' ' + tid + ' ' + tis.id);
ggvalslen=eval('' + ggvals.length);
iizhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
iizform=new FormData();
if (ggvalslen == 1) {
iizform.append('justuntmpthis', 'y');
if (parent.document.getElementById('ggif')) {
parent.document.body.style.cursor='progress';
}
}
iizform.append('justtmpthis', ggvals[eval(-1 + ggvalslen)]);
iizhr.open('post', './tutorial_to_animated_gif.php?xxx=' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 198756432), true);
iizhr.send(iizform);
setTimeout(maybeggmore, 5000);
} else if (ggvalgoes >= 12 && ggvalslen > 0) {
top.location.href=cbggis.split('?')[0].split('#')[0] + '?filespec=/tmp/ggtmp*.*&andgo=y';
} else {
ggvalgoes++;
setTimeout(maybeggmore, 5000);
}
}

if (document.URL.indexOf('calledbygg') != -1) { setTimeout(maybeggmore, 5000); }

  “; ?>

… along the way setting the caller’s parent.document.body.style.cursor=’progress’; so as to forewarn the user the process may take some time.

Previous relevant Gimp Guillotine Marquee Placeholder Tutorial is shown below.

Gimp Guillotine Marquee Placeholder Tutorial

The recent “Marquee Placeholder” ideas have hit a “usefulness” mark, involving it with the “Gimp Guillotine Followup” web application of Gimp Guillotine Local Datetime Token Subject Tutorial.

This “Marquee Placeholder” packs a puch, and over mobile platforms too, as an explainer of a “wordy” requirement. And the “Gimp Guillotine Followup” web application’s use of its major textbox is quite an involved thaing, because it is asking you to conjoin …

• a desktop application’s (ie. Gimp’s) output … to …
• an online “Gimp Guillotine Followup” web application’s input

… all feasible and possible via “URL definition” or “upload, then download” methodologies. Onto previous textbox blurb (within the placeholder attribute) here we add (ie. prefix) …

Our suggestion here is ./mondrian-*.*g*

… because we now feel we can, as it is probable an interested user will want to get the most out of the changed gimp_guillotine_followup.php that you can try out at this live run link.

To add in the “Marquee Placeholder” we add Javascripting “on the fly” because we don’t want any mixing of code with email attachment HTML, as per, within document.body “onload” event logic …


var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.type='text/javascript';
tag.src='/marquee_placeholder.js';
document.head.appendChild(tag);


Cute, huh?!

Stop Press

We found improvement performances “throttling down” the changed external Javascript marquee_placeholder.js‘s involvement once the textbox value is being actively entered by the user.

Previous relevant Gimp Guillotine Local Datetime Token Subject Tutorial is shown below.

Gimp Guillotine Local Datetime Token Subject Tutorial

Let’s combine work of …

• the recent Gimp Guillotine Token Subject Tutorial … with …
• the recent Colour Systems Localized Internationalized Date Emails Tutorial … and its promise …
  

  we saw this integration as a “test guinea pig” going onto “genericization afterwards” case

… to try to honour the “test guinea pig” with a bit of combing, and a colour tint for winter.

The integration’s “genericity drive” (feeling a bit more “next cab off the rank” than “genericization star”) is that much more difficult because there is no “onload” event “immediate answer” feel to this “Intl” object client side Javascript work. For the first time we can recall we needed to combine …

• HTML iframe “onload” event function … containing a …
• setTimeout based “relook” at that iframe’s content that little bit later on

… as per …


function postglt() {
var iois=document.getElementById('ifintl');
var fabih='', ewi=0, tzs='';
if (aconto) {
if (iois != null) {
aconto = (iois.contentWindow || iois.contentDocument);
if (aconto != null) {
if (aconto.document) { aconto = aconto.document; }
acontobih=aconto.body.innerHTML;
fabih=acontobih;
if (acontobih.trim().indexOf('var options') != -1) {
eval("options" + acontobih.split('var options')[1].split('<')[0].split(';')[0]);
if (elsewise) { // via div intldiv
if (acontobih.trim().indexOf('<b>') != -1) {
eval("lcode='" + acontobih.split('<b>')[1].split('<')[0] + "';");
//alert("lcode='" + acontobih.split('<b>')[1].split('<')[0] + "';");
d = new Date();
timedatenow = new Date(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), d.getDate(), d.getHours(), d.getMinutes(), d.getSeconds(), d.getMilliseconds());
localdatetime = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(lcode, options).format;
//document.title=localdatetime(timedatenow);
if (aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML) {
if (aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML.indexOf('timeZone:') != -1) {
tzs=' (' + aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML.split('timeZone:')[eval(-1 + aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML.split('timeZone:').length)].split('"')[1].split('"')[0] + ')';
if (tzs.replace(' (UTC)','') == '') { tzs=goodtzs; }
if (window.parent) {
if (document.URL.indexOf('inlineldt') == -1 && document.URL.indexOf('?') != -1 && (document.URL.indexOf('%40') != -1 || document.URL.indexOf('@') != -1)) {
//location.href=document.URL.replace('?', '?inlineldt=' + encodeURIComponent(localdatetime(timedatenow) + tzs.replace(' (UTC)','')) + '&');
document.body.innerHTML+="<iframe style=display:none; src='" + document.URL.replace('?', '?inlineldt=' + encodeURIComponent(localdatetime(timedatenow) + tzs.replace(' (UTC)','')) + '&') + "'></iframe>";
return false;
}
}
}
}
var theforms=document.getElementsByTagName('form');
for (var iiforms=0; iiforms<theforms.length; iiforms++) {
if (theforms[iiforms].innerHTML.indexOf('inlineldt') == -1) {
elsewisea.push('' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 178654));
theforms[iiforms].innerHTML+='<input type=hidden id=inlineldt' + elsewisea[eval(-1 + elsewisea.length)] + ' name=inlineldt value="' + localdatetime(timedatenow) + tzs.replace(' (UTC)','') + '"></input>';
} else {
document.getElementById('inlineldt' + elsewisea[ewi]).value=localdatetime(timedatenow) + tzs.replace(' (UTC)','');
ewi++;
}
}
}
}
} else {
fabih='';
}
if (acontobih.trim().indexOf('<b>') != -1) {
eval("lcode='" + acontobih.split('<b>')[1].split('<')[0] + "';");
} else {
fabih='';
}
acontobih=fabih;
}
}
}
}

function glt(iois) {
var fabih='', ewi=0, tzs='';
if (!aconto) {
if (iois != null) {
aconto = (iois.contentWindow || iois.contentDocument);
if (aconto != null) {
if (aconto.document) { aconto = aconto.document; }
acontobih=aconto.body.innerHTML;
fabih=acontobih;
if (acontobih.trim().indexOf('var options') != -1) {
eval("options" + acontobih.split('var options')[1].split('<')[0].split(';')[0]);
if (elsewise) { // via div intldiv
if (acontobih.trim().indexOf('<b>') != -1) {
eval("lcode='" + acontobih.split('<b>')[1].split('<')[0] + "';");
d = new Date();
timedatenow = new Date(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), d.getDate(), d.getHours(), d.getMinutes(), d.getSeconds(), d.getMilliseconds());
localdatetime = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(lcode, options).format;
if (aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML) {
if (aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML.indexOf('timeZone:') != -1) {
tzs=' (' + aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML.split('timeZone:')[eval(-1 + aconto.getElementById('ejc1').innerHTML.split('timeZone:').length)].split('"')[1].split('"')[0] + ')';
goodtzs=tzs.replace(' (UTC)','');
}
}
var theforms=document.getElementsByTagName('form');
for (var iiforms=0; iiforms<theforms.length; iiforms++) {
if (theforms[iiforms].innerHTML.indexOf('inlineldt') == -1) {
elsewisea.push('' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 178654));
theforms[iiforms].innerHTML+='<input type=hidden id=inlineldt' + elsewisea[eval(-1 + elsewisea.length)] + ' name=inlineldt value="' + localdatetime(timedatenow) + tzs.replace(' (UTC)','') + '"></input>';
} else {
document.getElementById('inlineldt' + elsewisea[ewi]).value=localdatetime(timedatenow) + tzs.replace(' (UTC)','');
ewi++;
}
}
}
setTimeout(postglt, 3000);
}
} else {
fabih='';
}
if (acontobih.trim().indexOf('<b>') != -1) {
eval("lcode='" + acontobih.split('<b>')[1].split('<')[0] + "';");
} else {
fabih='';
}
acontobih=fabih;
}
}
}
}


And so we continue on with other scenarios here. Here is …

• the changed gimp_guillotine_followup.php that you can try out at this live run link … now can call upon …
• the changed /HTMLCSS/intl_use.js

Previous relevant Colour Systems Localized Internationalized Date Emails Tutorial is shown below.

Colour Systems Localized Internationalized Date Emails Tutorial

Huh?! What’s with “Localized Internationalized” in today’s tutorial title?

Well, we’ve been miffed for a couple of days now putting up with our “date token email subject” parts to our emails showing a web server (location) based timestamp. Our web server at RJM Programming, hosted by the wonderful Crazy Domains is located on the other side of our country (as well as our continent), Australia in a timezone called “Australia/Perth”. And as much as we admire Perth, and have to “girt the loins” (you might say “more than somewhat”) when Collingwood takes on West Coast in the AFL, when it comes to timezone relevance for us here in Sydney, the subtraction of two or three hours (depending on daylight saving) is all too much for me. So, what to do? There is the quandary …

• to arrange the inline HTML emails you need a serverside language such as PHP … yet …
• to obtain a “local” timestamp you need Javascript (at the “client”)

… and so, though there are clunky things you can do at the PHP end the more straightforward and less confusing approach is to get between …

• the existant Ajax/FormData techniques of sending a FormData object to …
• our PHP email creator

… and make a dual purpose arrangement for our FormData “inline” (think of it as a “textbox in midair”) that if it contains a …

• string that contains a “:” semicolon … and contains …
• less than or equal to 5 words (space delimited)

… we’re going to say that the parent (HTML/Javascript) has thus indicated to the (hard working duck paddling hard under the water) child (PHP email creator) that the content of the “inline” “textbox in midair” is a better timestamp to use for “[date]” subject token substitutions than any server timestamp.

That’s “Localized” covered, but what’s “Internationalized” about this? Well, at the Javascript (client) end, you may recall how we’ve investigated the great “Intl” object possibilities for Date and Number and Currency Internationalization thoughts (at the client side) when we presented Javascript Internationalization Resolved Options Tutorial. Well, we feel some integration coming on. This previously standalone (top.document thinking) web application needed to be adapted to be useful as a “child iframe” one as well (ie. integrate but keep all existant top.document thinking to work as before). This is a bit of work to get going, but by the end, we had this integration changing “date token [date] in subject line” of emails creating timestamps like …

… a clarity and relevance improvement (to the email subject line) am sure you’d agree. Though it’s clearly not there yet, we saw this integration as a “test guinea pig” going onto “genericization afterwards” case, and so hived off a lot of these changes to a new …

• integrating external Javascript intl_use.js calls a changed intl_use.html … and in turn called by …
• the changed cmyk_rgb.html live run link … calling …
• the changed PHP email creator helper emailhtml.php

Believe it or not, another job improving on yesterday’s Colour Systems Inline HTML Email Collaboration Tutorial that took equally as long was figuring out what to do about the HSL Hue unit of measure’s symbol ° for the Apple Mail macOS application email client, where all the encoding combinations we could think of caused a spurious “A” (but gobbledygooky) type of character to preceed the ° to look annoyingly like A° … ugh! It took a long time to nut out, but eventually we tweaked to …

• for all the web browser usage incarnations just show the degree symbol via HTML …
  
<span id="ds" title="Degrees">&#176;</span>

• but then on its way to the email clients map that via the relevant Javascript DOM …
  
document.getElementById('htmlis').innerHTML='<body>' + document.body.innerHTML.split('<ifr' + 'ame')[0].replace(document.getElementById('ds').outerHTML, "<div title=Degrees style='display:inline-block;max-width:6px;width:6px;max-height:10px;height:10px;overflow:hidden;'><span title=Degrees style='float:right;text-align:right;transform:scaleX(1);'>" + String.fromHtmlEntities(String.fromCodePoint(176)) + "</span></div>"); // many other replace clauses have been left out for clarity purposes

  … to end up with the email client “Show original” view (of the inline HTML of email) as …
  
<div title=Degrees style='display:inline-block;max-width:6px;width:6px;max-height:10px;height:10px;overflow:hidden;'><span title=Degrees style='float:right;text-align:right;transform:scaleX(1);'>°</span></div>

  … effectively asking good ol’ CSS to cover up for our Javascript pickle

Intrigued by “transform:scaleX(1)”? Yes, we experimented with flip “transform:scaleX(-1)” and flop “transform:scaleY(-1)” at various stages, but did not seem to need these in the end. But the degree (°) symbol being that “even handed” character, we can flip it and flop it, and it remains its old self … if only we had three of them … oh! fancy that?!

We also added any Feedback or Comments into the email subject line, as well as in the “inline HTML” body section of the email.

Previous relevant Colour Systems Inline HTML Email Collaboration Tutorial is shown below.

Colour Systems Inline HTML Email Collaboration Tutorial

Yesterday’s Colour Systems Inline HTML Email Tutorial featured Inline HTML Email functionality, that we find very useful, but almost denuded of personalization. We think adding personalization aspects to a web application should never be mandatory to its functionality, but on the flipside, if you want a web application with “collaboration” thoughts we figure for …

• the scenario that the rjmprogramming.com.au mail server serves as an “honest broker” between …
• an emailee (as we established yesterday) … and …
• an emailer (we allow the user to define (and so not have to bother the users again regarding email addresses), optionally, starting today) … teamed with …
• a comment or feedback textbox (new today), to add some personalization, into the colour discussion and collaboration and sharing experience (… what’s come over me!)

… meaning, though, that collaboration can occur between collaborators through (straight at your face content) email.

Today, also, we’ve added another HSL (Hue/Saturation/Lightness) Colour System, and would like to thank this useful link regarding the formulae needed to make this happen.

Try collaboration via the changed cmyk_rgb.html live run link yourself, and with a colourful friend!

Previous relevant Colour Systems Inline HTML Email Tutorial is shown below.

Colour Systems Inline HTML Email Tutorial

In undertaking the makeover for the Colour Systems web application of Colour Systems Primer Tutorial we were integrating Inline HTML Email functionality via Ajax/FormData techniques (entrenched as a favourite “midair” feeling email conduit approach) when we were surprised trying something that we did not expect to work. We have intimated that as far as email clients go it is touch and go whether much HTML5 works nor CSS3 when you try to get something going, so when we tried integrating …

• inline HTML email … with …
• HTML input type=”color” as per …
  
<input onchange="findc(this.value);" style='display:INLINE-BLOCK;' type="color" name="cinput" id="cinput" value="#000000"></input>


… we were really expecting “tears before bedtime” rather than an approach using the HTML input type=”color” element above that really made it good at the emailee end, in particular, as we …

• have an emailer start the ball rolling (with the changed cmyk_rgb.html) at this link … then …
• set up a colour of interest via any of the following approaches …
  1. fill out Red, Green, Blue … 0 to 255 … RGB Colour System numbers
  2. fill out Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key … 0.0000 to 1.0000 … CMYK Colour System numbers
  3. click our new HTML input type=”color” element and follow your nose
• and then, optionally, collaborate (or just share) with an emailee (textbox) they fill out and press the “Email to …” button … setting off …
• Ajax/FormData functionality sends off the document.body.innerHTML (heavily amended) HTML data directed via our Inline HTML Email “emailhtml.php” (usual PHP) helper …
• email arrives for the emailee who sees a lot of what the emailer last saw … and …
  1. we highly recommend clicking our new HTML input type=”color” element, then follow your nose (picking a colour , not your … ?) then … click RGB to CMYK button
  2. fill out Red, Green, Blue … 0 to 255 … RGB Colour System numbers … click RGB to CMYK button
  3. fill out Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key … 0.0000 to 1.0000 … CMYK Colour System numbers … click CMYK to RGB button

  … optionally adjusting the return email (as the original emailer’s email address, more than likely) … back out to “the net” with …

• the emailee’s web browser arrives at the same colour systems web application ready to, optionally, send more collaboration or sharing back to the emailer, as required

Colourful discussions can ensue! And don’t we know, lots of people have opinions about colour, even its spelling!

Previous relevant Colour Systems Primer Tutorial is shown below.

Colour Systems Primer Tutorial

We want to talk, today, about Colour (Space) Systems. There are, at least …

• additive colour systems … used in science … often used to define web colours … red, green and blue are the primary colours
• subtractive colour systems … used by artists (and often the way we learn colours in early school) … often used with regard to printing … red, yellow and blue are the primary colours
• the CMYK colour system … used by printing industry … cyan, magenta, yellow and black are the primary colours

You can read more about the comparisons and a description of these three at Colour Systems – RGB and CYMK.

We’ve got a small HTML and Javascript conversion program we call cmyk_rgb.html (and that you can use as a live run) which you can use today to convert a given colour to and from RGB and CYMK colour systems.

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