Wesley Alan Wright: Notes, Lessons, and Projects

Henrie asked me to write an ACTION= script to process a form she designed. So I did:

Form:

http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/?Page=resources-teaching/online-teaching/selfassessmentform.html

Responses

http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/resources-teaching/online-teaching/responses.php

I imagine she’ll want to edit the text of the user feedback. Currently, FAIL=

“Based on your responses on the CTL self-assessment form, we recommend that you attend the pre-TEO workshop on x date at x time (i will get back to you this afternoon about the date and time)”

and PASS=

“Your technical savvy is impressive. You are ready to use Blackboard without CTL interference. Click here to get started!”

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Paul Bierman <paul.bierman@uvm.edu> wrote:

Can you block this spammer. Thanks

From: <uvmwww@brownrecluse.uvm.edu>
Date: November 19, 2012 11:09:36 EST
To: glcp@uvm.edu
Subject: Landscape Change Upload:
New upload from  e-mail 

With respect to

   http://as1351.http.sasm3.net/landscape_new/search/details.php?ls=&sequence=

uploaded on 2012-11-19:

No, said I, ’cause I don’t know anything identifying about this spammer. If he had sent me the original of this email with ‘full headers’ I think it might have an IP address, which I might be able to block — until the next spammer comes along

Rob Ryan posed this problem:

I am beginning to understand some bits of this stuff, but not nearly enough, and so I bang my head against things until my head hurts and I go looking for help. This is one of those times.

I’m trying to use simpleXML to process a feed from uvmbored and put it on a web page.

https://www.uvm.edu/~chwb/rsstest.php

My only real issue is with the date. Rather than printing something like
Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:00:00 -0400

I’d prefer something more like

Monday, November 5 at 9:00 AMI suspect the PHP date_parse or date_parse_from_format function may be the ticket here, but I can’t get the syntax right (or something)–I’ve not had any luck. can you make some suggestions? 

My retort:

$date=$item->pubDate;
$test= new DateTime($date);
$mydate=$test->format("l, F j a\t g:i A");
$title=$item->title[0];
print "$mydate: $title$descript n";

The trickiest bit was getting the ‘ at ‘

Rob’s response: “A thing of beauty; thanks.”