• Consulting
• CSS redesign
• XML feeds development -Automation with PHP
• RSS development and automatic marketing integration with Twitter and Facebook

Even though was not a Yii-job, I am more than happy to promote www.offertutti.com here as one of the most pleasant jobs I have ever had in my, already long -gosh how time pass, coding career.

The job was quite challenging, as any site developed by companies from certain countries, but managed to fulfill most of their expectations. Even though I am currently in the middle of a dream project, it continues to be a pleasure to help them out every now and then.

New design is coming…

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Introduction

Required for one of my projects, I decided to develop my own Yii extension to create RSS Feeds. I knew there is already one but I wanted something easier to use than that. This is why I came up with EFeed Extension. This extension supports RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and ATOM 1.0 standards.

How to Use

I assume that you have downloaded the extension and place it on your protected/extensions folder.

RSS 1.0 Example

Yii::import('ext.feed.*');
// specify feed type
$feed = new EFeed(EFeed::RSS1);
$feed->title = 'Testing the RSS 1 EFeed class';
$feed->link = 'http://www.ramirezcobos.com';
$feed->description = 'This is test of creating a RSS 1.0 feed by Universal Feed Writer';
$feed->RSS1ChannelAbout = 'http://www.ramirezcobos.com/about';
// create our item
$item = $feed->createNewItem();
$item->title = 'The first feed';
$item->link = 'http://www.yiiframework.com';
$item->date = time();
$item->description = 'Amaz-ii-ng <b>Yii Framework</b>';
$item->addTag('dc:subject', 'Subject Testing');
 // add it to the feed
$feed->addItem($item);
$feed->generateFeed();

As you can see in the example above, we just need to create items and add them to the feed. The example could be easily modified to add items extracted from a database and add them to the Feed in a loop.

RSS 2.0 Example

Yii::import('ext.feed.*');
// RSS 2.0 is the default type
$feed = new EFeed();
$feed->title= 'Testing RSS 2.0 EFeed class';
$feed->description = 'This is test of creating a RSS 2.0 Feed';
$feed->setImage(
'Testing the EFeed class',
'http://www.ramirezcobos.com',
'http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/uploads/profile/photo-7106.jpg');
$feed->addChannelTag('language', 'en-us');
$feed->addChannelTag('pubDate', date(DATE_RSS, time()));
$item = $feed->createNewItem();
$item->title = "first Feed";
$item->link = "http://www.yahoo.com";
$item->date = time();
$item->description = 'This is test of adding ' .
          'CDATA Encoded description <b>EFeed Extension</b>';
// this is just a test!!
$item->setEncloser(
      'http://www.tester.com',
     '1283629', 'audio/mpeg');
$item->addTag(
     'author',
     'thisisnot@myemail.com (Antonio Ramirez)');
$item->addTag(
     'guid',
     'http://www.ramirezcobos.com',
     array('isPermaLink'=>'true'));
$feed->addItem($item);
$feed->generateFeed();

ATOM 1.0 Example

Yii::import('ext.feed.*');
$feed = new EFeed(EFeed::ATOM);
// IMPORTANT : No need to add id for feed or channel.
// It will be automatically created from link.
$feed->title = 'Testing the ATOM RSS EFeed class';
$feed->link = 'http://www.ramirezcobos.com';
$feed->addChannelTag('updated', date(DATE_ATOM, time()));
$feed->addChannelTag('author', array('name'=>'Antonio Ramirez Cobos'));
$item = $feed->createNewItem();
$item->title = 'The first Feed';
$item->link  = 'http://www.ramirezcobos.com';
// we can also insert well formatted date strings
$item->date ='2010/24/12';
$item->description = 'Test of CDATA Encoded description <b>EFeed Extension</b>';
$feed->addItem($item);
$feed->generateFeed();

Download

To download the extension go to Yii’s extension repository. Hope this little piece of code can help your project needs somehow.

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Website Features

• Prettyphoto Plugin
• AnythingSlider Plugin
• Instant Notification Support
• reCaptcha
• Google Maps

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To visit the site: http://www.mallorcacolonia.com/

Website Features

• Multiple language support
• Prettyphoto Plugin
• JQuerySlider Menu Plugin
• AnythingSlider Plugin
• Fancybox Plugin
• Instant Notification Support
• reCaptcha

Web Panel Features

• The webpanel allows to manage:
• Web Translations
• Property Types
• Properties (Sale, Rent, Inactive) – Gallery – Property Owners
• Zones
• Site Languages
• Inbox

Backend Gallery

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I would like to introduce you my last web project: http://www.palmstudios.com

For this project I have developed a sort of MVC (Model View Controller) over the RedBeanPHP DB library (PHP 5.3.2).  This project even though it looks quite simple it has a very power CMS (Content Management System) on its backend that allows the model agency to control most of the aspects of its business:

1. - Clients Management
2. - Models Management (Men, Women, Children & Extras) -contact details, measurements, pictures, and so on…
3. - Promotional Packages Management – this is a special addon which allows the agency to create model promotional bundles to send to its clients

There is a ton of client and server libraries that this application makes use of, such as:

• JQuery FancyBox
• JQuery Livequery
• JQuery AjaxQ
• PHPMailer
• RedBeanPHP
• Savant3 Template Engine
• PHPThumb
• TinyMCE

The CMS has a configuration section where site administrator can configure:

• Web site languages (has multiple language support)
• Web site translations (you can even ask GOOGLE about a translation depending of the languages installed on the system)
• Model properties (size, height, waist, etc…)
• Hair Colors
• Eye Colors
• Users

Here is a snapshot gallery of the Site and its CMS

I am open for Freelance Jobs

If any of you would like to create a model agency application like this, let me know, I will be more than happy to collaborate with you on it. I will also sell the source code of its panel for any of you who is interested.

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Bruno Casablanca Restaurant and Pizzeria

Another site finished: www.brunocasablanca.com

Yeah, is a restaurant business, located in one of the most beautiful places in the Balearic Islands: Betlem, in La Colonia de San Pedro, Majorca, Spain. The site uses a web panel to control:

• Picture Galleries
• Web site content
• Translations
• Events
• Suggestions

In this site I make use of one of the greatest galleries around Pirobox, boxen -to display the menu, and FlippingBook HTML Edition for the menu viewing. You can check the website and see how I implemented these three cool tools, feel free to ask me any doubt related to them in case you wish to use it in any of your sites.

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Torrenova Rentacar

I would like to show you one of the reasons of why I have been so busy lately: torrenovarentacar.com.

One of the most complete sites in terms of rentacar systems. Fully synchronized with one of the most used rent a car management programs in Spain, CarPlus (www.cargestion.es) and with a highly powerful control panel where the rent a car owner controls absolutely everything. Its web panel features:

• Company details
• Contacts
• Offices and their Google locations
• CarPlus Settings and Sync
• Users
• Extras
• Cars
• Car Groups
• Car Models
• Translations (It can set new languages at will)

If you have time, please check it out as I would love to get some feedback about it.
Thanks!

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