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Sharing on the mobile platform

Many smartphone users (probably most) use dedicated apps for their social sharing. However, when clicking on a share button on websites, the user is redirected to the website instead of to the app for twitter and facebook. This document tries to offer an alternative route for sharing on mobile.

User story and technique

1. When a user clicks the share button for the first time
   ask if he/she wants to use an app or to go to the website.
   Use local storage (jstorage) or cookies to store user preferences.
2. When the user wants to use the app, use a small script to verify

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ProtectedPages extension

Make sections of your site (template) accessible to members only.

Quick Setup

Create a template with a loginform and the processform tag. The form should at least provide username, password and action. e.g.:

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<?php

$req = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

// querystring
isset($req['query']) ? parse_str($req['query'], $req['query_arr']) : $req['query_arr'] = array();

// route
$req['route'] = substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']));

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<?php

$plugin_info = array(
  'pi_name' => 'debug_override',
  'pi_version' =>'1.0',
  'pi_author' =>'GDmac',
  'pi_author_url' => '',
  'pi_description' => '',
  'pi_usage' => '{exp:debug_override override="all|ajax"} default is override on ajax calls',
  );

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<?php
// Context: I'm trying to argue that DI (and DIC) are great, and DIC libs suck. 
// Happy to be proven wrong!

final class Router {
    private $dependencies;
    public function __construct (Dependencies $dependencies) {
        $this->dependencies = $dependencies;
        // You might say that this is Service Locator, but it's not. This router is toplevel,
        // and toplevel must have access to dependencies. After that it can all just bubble nicely using proper DI.

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<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

$uploadHandler = new \Acme\FileUpload\UploadHandler();
$uploadHandler
  ->setFormFieldName('upload')
  ->setTargetDirectory(__DIR__ . '/../uploads')
  ->addValidator(new JpegFileTypeValidator())
  ->addValidator(new maxFileSizeValidator(4096))