Month: January 2014

So at this point we can….
1) Retrieve a Github info
2) Retrieve google calender info

But one thing we have yet to do is provide a place where we can actually clock in and clock out. Now we can do this in a variety of ways….

• Custom Post Types to define Projects and Users
  -they would literally just be place holders to avoid storing tons of duplicant data
  -Would be based off any user that enters our website and allows our app to access their github profile
  • Pros
    -We don’t need javascript to display data
    -Pretty URLs will be enforced
    -Good for SEO
    -Can Be Placed in a Plugin
  • Cons
    -Whats the point of creating a reference?
• Query Based Multiple Page Service
  -We would create a page that is based off a template we created
  -In the template we would get the queries and give the appropiate data back
  • Pros
    -clean and neat
    -Can make it SEO Freindly
  • Cons
    -Would have to define an archive and various link tags to make it SEO freindly
    -Ugly Urls
• Single Page Service
  -Using Ajax, we would do everything right from the one page
  • Pros
    -Clean and Neat
    -Pretty Url… Well theres only one….
    -Can be stored in a plugin
    -Nothing is stored
  • Cons
    -Requires Javascript
    -Will need to deal with the data in the browser
    -No SEO

So here’s our choices, I’ll assume you assumed which I’m going with… And if you didn’t assume, I’ll give you a hint “Type Post Custom”. WordPress is wonderful in that it gives you pretty URLS, it gives you proper SEO in a variety of ways, makes your URLs beautful and on top of that you can avoid alot of the struggles you would enter into with your own Content Management System,  such as creating a proper PHP class to interact with sql.

We really want to make sure this is a plugin also to allow ourselves some breathing room in terms of installation.

So Lets begin by creating our plugin

Now Things we will have to include are….

1.  Creating a Custom Post Type for Users and associating it to a User
2. Creating a Custom Post Type for Projects
3.  Giving people the opportunity to choose their Calender
4.  Auto Load on new sites to old calanders

So lets prepare in the Init, we’re going to leave out the auto load for now

add_action( 'init', 'initialize_clockin' );
function initialize_clockin() {
 register_post_type( 'clockin_dev',
  array(
   'labels' => array(
    'name' => __( 'Developers' ),
    'singular_name' => __( 'Developer' )
   ),
   'description' => 'The user object associated with the wordpress user. stores the guthub username as well',
   'public' => true,
   'has_archive' => true,
   'show_ui' => false,
   'show_in_menu' => false,
   'supports' => false
  )
 );
 register_post_type( 'clockin_project',
  array(
   'labels' => array(
   'name' => __( 'Github Projects' ),
   'singular_name' => __( 'Github Project' )
),
   'description' => 'Associated to Github Project',
   'public' => true,
   'has_archive' => true,
   'show_in_menu' => false,
   'supports' => false
  )
 );
 add_option("Calander ID", null);
}

Now lets create our admin page

This is the code I came up with. I preferred the object oriented approach so that I can store it in a different file

<?php
class clock_in_admin {
 public $options;
public function __construct(){
 add_action( 'admin_menu', array( $this, 'add_to_menu' ) );
 add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'page_init' ) );
 }
 public function add_to_menu(){
 add_options_page( "Clock In Settings", "Clockin", "manage_options", "clock-in-admin", array($this, "admin_page"));
 }
 public function admin_page(){
 $this->options = get_option( 'clock-in' );
?>
 <div class="wrap">
 <?php screen_icon(); ?>
 <h2>Clock In Settings</h2>
 <form method="post" action="options.php"> 
 <?php 
settings_fields( 'clock_in_fields' );
 do_settings_sections( 'clock-in-admin' );
 ?>
<?php submit_button(); ?>
 </form>
 </div>
<?php
 }
 public function page_init(){
 register_setting('clock_in_fields', 'clock-in', array( $this, 'sanitize' ) );
 add_settings_section('clock-in-cal', 'Google Calender Setting', array( $this, 'print_section_info' ),'clock-in-admin');
 add_settings_field('calender-id','Calander ID',array( $this, 'calander_id_input' ),'clock-in-admin','clock-in-cal');
 }
 public function print_section_info()
 {
 echo 'Enter your settings below:';
 }
 public function sanitize( $input ){
 if( isset( $input['calender-id'] ) ){
 //need to check if the calender exists and we can't view and edit it
 //if we can't edit it, we need to ask for permission
 $this->options['calender-id'] = $input['calender-id'];
 }
return $this->options;
 }
 public function calander_id_input()
 { ?>
 <input id='calender-id' name='clock-in[calender-id]' size='40' type='text' value='<?php echo $this->options['calender-id'] ?>' />
<?php
 }
}
?>