We have added a new addon example site, to show you how our addon's 'may' look within your solution. The design + colouring is all controlled through CSS, which means we can format the look for your brand / company

check it out here

Tags: addon

We have just launch our new look site. It is now more "google" friendly to enhance our search rankings and thus more traffic being directed to our site. Including well formed CSS, HTML, an auto generated sitemap etc., this is a great example of what we can offer you.

What you see here or within our addon example site is available to you!

Tags: baredog

When we host your site, a cron job (geek talk for a scheduled task) can be set up to auto send emails in batches. This allows the mailer list to be scalable for both small customer lists and large lists to handle 1 email to over 1000's

Tags: mailer

I can't take any credit for writing the code below and can't remember where I got it from, but I think it is worth sharing as I know how painful it was trying to generate thumbnails with a 'decent' transparent background.

This works and has only been tested with *.PNG files only. The important bit is to use the imagecreatetruecolortransparent() function detailed below, instead of php's standard imagecreatetruecolor(). The new function does a similar thing, but also creates a new image with an actual transparent background and not a specific colour (normally black and then try to filter that colour out)...

Just try it, it works great...

$w = 50; //width
$h = 50; //height
$srcFile = ""; //selected file

$dest = imagecreatetruecolortransparent($w, $h);
$src = imagecreatefrompng($srcFile);

imagecopyresampled($dest, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $w, $h, $size[0], $size[1]);

return $dest;

function imagecreatetruecolortransparent($x, $y)
{
$i = imagecreatetruecolor($x, $y);
$b = imagecreatefromstring(base64_decode(blankpng()));
imagealphablending($i, false);
imagesavealpha($i, true);
imagecopyresized($i, $b ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,$x, $y, imagesx($b), imagesy($b));
return $i;
}

function blankpng()
{
$c = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoCAYAAAC";
$c .= "M/rhtAAAABGdBTUEAAK/INwWK6QAAABl0RVh0U29m";
$c .= "dHdhcmUAQWRvYmUgSW1hZ2VSZWFkeXHJZTwAAA";
$c .= "DqSURBVHjaYvz//z/DYAYAAcTEMMgBQAANegcCBNCg";
$c .= "dyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQoHcgQAANegcCB";
$c .= "NCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQoHcgQAAN";
$c .= "egcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQoHcgQ";
$c .= "AANegcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQ";
$c .= "oHcgQAANegcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAg";
$c .= "TQoHcgQAANegcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAA";
$c .= "DXoHAgTQoHcgQAANegcCBNCgdyBAgAEAMpcDTTQWJ";
$c .= "VEAAAAASUVORK5CYII=";
return $c;
}

Tags: code

We have now enhanced the album caching so you don't have to keep requesting flickr for the photos every time you want to view another album. Now each album will load faster when 'reopening' it or opening albums with photos opened previously

Tags: addon, album

go check out the new addon that can be added to your site..
- admin addon
- album addon
- event addon
- mailer addo
- shop addon
- snippet addon

They are all still work in progress so any thoughts and comments are much appreciated.. flick us an email at info@baredog.com

cheers

Tags: addon, admin, album, event, mailer, shop, snippet, comments