Comments on: Nexty Updates

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:45:12 +0000

This is what you have to do…

Open up the folder where nexty is kept.
Open the file ‘templates/settings/index.php’ in your favorite editor
Find line # 26
if(strpos(strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]), ‘linux’) !== false) { //If
the user is on a Linux system, give him the chance to create a script
Change that to

//If user is on a Linux/Unix system, give him the option to create the script
$user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
if((strpos($user_agent, ‘linux’) !== false) or
(strpos($user_agent, ‘macintosh’) !== false)) {

I really hope you know a bit of PHP – that will make this very easy.

Also, expect this feature from the next version

By: bugugly

bugugly — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:08:28 +0000

HTTP_USER_AGENT Opera/9.23 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en)

Darwin isn’t in the string. My bad!

Your script works when it checks for “macintosh” as well as “linux”, forget the “darwin”.

By: bugugly

bugugly — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:50:36 +0000

Love your cli for twitter. How cool can you get! I did kind of the same thing a few years back for my employer. Built a www based fax server with just a few lines of code using an old cli efax app and os X server. It worked great but I guess was just too simple!

I do have a point. OS X is a viable unix platform that uses mostly freeBSD underpinnings. A powerbook is my tool of choice, and provides the MAMP stack, similar to your LAMP stack.

In Nexty, could you give some consideration to unix users as well as linux? I specifically am interested in your cli for nexty, settings page does not show me a link to the script, I am guessing it checks for “Linux” in the user-agent or something. Could it check for “Darwin” as well and pop me a link for cli tools?

You are the man! Glad to help if you need concepts tested on OS X.