This model only deals with incoming calls at the moment, but if I get some feedback (or need it for my own purposes), I’ll update it to initiate outgoing calls, voice->text, as well.

Here’s an example of usage:

$body = $this->twilio->say('Thanks for calling!', 'woman');
$gath = $this->twilio->say('Please enter your ID number then press pound');
$body .= $this->twilio->gather($gath, '/voice/process/idcheck/', 6);
$body .= $this->twilio->redirect('/voice/answer/noid/');
echo $this->twilio->build($body);


These 4 lines, generate the appropriate XML code to have a computerized woman’s voice say “Thanks for calling!”, then the script starts listening for touch-tone entry of a 6 digit number and says, in a male voice, “Please enter your ID number then press pound”. If a 6 digit number is entered, it POSTs it to /voice/process/idcheck/, if not, it redirects to /voice/answer/noid/

The model is available for download here.

Questions? Problems? I’m happy to help.

Want Hotchkiss Consulting to help develop your phone-based app?  We’d love to.


<!-- Digg -->
<a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>" rel="nofollow" title="Submit to Digg" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/digg.gif" alt="Digg" title="Digg" /></a>
<!-- Twitter -->
<a title="Tweet About It!" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=<?php the_title(); ?> <?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/twitter.gif" alt="Twitter" title="Twitter" /></a>
<!-- StumbleUpon -->
<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>" rel="nofollow" title="Stumble It!" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/stumbleupon.gif" alt="StumbleUpon" title="StumbleUpon" /></a>
<!-- Delicious -->
<a href="http://delicious.com/save?url=<?php urlencode(the_permalink()); ?>&amp;title=<?php urlencode(the_title()); ?>" onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url=<?php urlencode(the_permalink()); ?>&amp;title=<?php urlencode(the_title()); ?>', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" title="Bookmark this post on del.icio.us"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/delicious.gif" alt="Delicious" title="Delicious" /></a>
<!-- Facebook -->
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="nofollow" title="Share on Facebook" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/facebook.gif" alt="Facebook" title="Facebook" /></a>
<!-- MySpace -->
<a href="javascript:GetThis('<?php the_title(); ?>','<?php the_excerpt(); ?>', '<?php the_permalink(); ?>')"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/myspace.gif" alt="MySpace" title="MySpace" /></a>
<!-- Google Bookmarks -->
<a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="nofollow" title="Bookmark on Google" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/google.gif" alt="Google Bookmarks" title="Google Bookmarks" /></a>
<!-- Technorati -->
<a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/technorati.gif" alt="Technorati" title="Technorati" /></a>
<!-- AddThis -->
<a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4b6908a945df8eb0"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/addthis.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4b6908a945df8eb0"></script>
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<a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="nofollow" title="Submit to Reddit" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/social/reddit.gif" alt="Reddit" title="Reddit" /></a>


This will output your latest twitter status, converting any URLs or email addresses to clickable links:

function get_status($twitterid) {
$xml = @simplexml_load_file('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$twitterid.'.xml?count=1');
if($xml->status) {
foreach($xml->status as $status){
$text = $status->text;
$text = html_entity_decode($text);
$text = " ".$text;
$text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',
'<a href="\\1" target=_blank>\\1</a>', $text);
$text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tps://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',
'<a href="\\1" target=_blank>\\1</a>', $text);
$text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',
'\\1<a href="http://\\2" target=_blank>\\2</a>', $text);
$text = eregi_replace('([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3})',
'<a href="mailto:\\1" target=_blank>\\1</a>', $text);
$text .= "<h4>Posted from $status->source</h4>";
}} else {
return 'Trouble in Twittersville, API not loading, sorry!';
}
return $text;
}


Then, to call it, just use this function:


get_status('YOUR_TWITTER_ID');


with your numerical Twitter ID in the obvious spot. You can find your Twitter ID by looking at the URL for your Twitter RSS feed, which will be:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/YOUR_TWITTER_ID.rss

$enddelim = '<!--:-->';
 $englishdelim = '<!--:en-->';
 $hebrewdelim = '<!--:iw-->';

 $getpost = get_posts('post_type=page&include='.$post->ID);
 foreach($getpost as $p2) :
 setup_postdata($p2);
 $both_titles = 'blah'.$p2->post_title;
 $both_bodies = 'blah'.$p2->post_content;
 endforeach;

 if(strpos($both_titles, $englishdelim)) :
 $pt1 = explode($englishdelim, $both_titles);
 $pt2 = explode($enddelim, $pt1[1]);
 $p_title['english'] = $pt2[0];
 endif;

 if(strpos($both_titles, $hebrewdelim)) :
 $pt1 = explode($hebrewdelim, $both_titles);
 $pt2 = explode($enddelim, $pt1[1]);
 $p_title['hebrew'] = $pt2[0];
 endif;

 if(strpos($both_bodies, $englishdelim)) :
 $pt1 = explode($englishdelim, $both_bodies);
 $pt2 = explode($enddelim, $pt1[1]);
 $p_body['english'] = $pt2[0];
 endif;

 if(strpos($both_bodies, $hebrewdelim)) :
 $pt1 = explode($hebrewdelim, $both_bodies);
 $pt2 = explode($enddelim, $pt1[1]);
 $p_body['hebrew'] = $pt2[0];
 endif;

Ran into a problem today– there’s no easy way to add and subtract dates in PHP and be left with standard units (year, month, day, etc), so I whipped up a quick script to do it– the biggest problem is months, here, since PHP deals with second-based timestamps, and months don’t possess a standard number of seconds. Without further ado, here’s the code– I hope it’s helpful to your projects:

print_r($age);

Or you can download the source file here, if you're having copy/paste troubles.

I came up with this easy routine which goes through the result set, whether it’s search result or category view, then creates an array where the key is the current product ID, and the values are the IDs of the product before and the product afterward. So if I’m on product 157, $ordering[157]['next'] will give me the ID of the next product. Just pop it in a session, and you’re good to go.

Simple and straightforward– feel free to reuse all you like!


foreach($results as $row) {
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// so that we can capture previous, current, and next, we're going
// to process one row behind, so for the first row, don't put anything into
// our array
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
if(!$curr) {
$curr = 'first';
$next = $row['id'];
} else {
// Everything moves back one space
$prev = $curr;
$curr = $next;
$next = $row['id'];
// It gets saved into the array
$ordering[$curr]['prev'] = $prev;
$ordering[$curr]['next'] = $next;
}
}
// Here we're handling the last row
$ordering[$next]['prev'] = $curr;
$ordering[$next]['next'] = 'last';


http://bctasks.hdev1.com/mytasks.php?site=SiteURLSegment&user=YourUsername&password=YourPassword

Username and Password should be self explanatory.  SiteURLSegment is the portion of your Basecamp URL between the http:// and the .basecamphq.com/ — if your Basecamp account is at http://hotchkissconsulting.basecamphq.com/, your SiteURLSegment would be hotchkissconsulting.

Nothing shows better than an example, though, so here’s what my URL would be if my password was ‘iLovePHP’

http://bctasks.hdev1.com/mytasks.php?site=hotchkissconsulting&user=sam&password=iLovePHP

Then, to feed your tasks into iCal, all you need to do is:

1. Open iCal
2. Select ‘Subscribe’ from the Calendar menu
3. Enter your custom URL
4. Make sure “Remove To Do Items” is NOT checked
5. Set your auto-refresh to however often you want to check for new tasks and get rid of completed ones
6. Press Okay

and Voila, all your Basecamp tasks are there in iCal.

Since BC tasks are context based (they sit within a project and a task list so you know what they’re about), I brought in this information, so your task in iCal will show up as “ProjectName ListName – Task Name”

Also, I’ve put in ’short name’ functionality. A lot of my tasks are fairly verbose, and I want to be able to see what the task is quickly and easily.  So I put in support for short names– you can use this in the project name, task list name, and the title of the actual task.  All you have to do is put the name you want to show up in iCal inside [square brackets].  So, if I had a task list named “Preparations for Launch [Launch]“, the feed will only show the list name as “Launch”.  This helps to keep things short and reasonable.

Questions?  Comments?  Let me know!

Note: I do not store your Basecamp username and password– this information is passed directly through to 37signals and never gets stored on my server.  If you’re uncomfortable with this, feel free to download the source code and run it on your server.

10am – Wake up, check and respond to email, deal with any urgent issues

10:30am – Breakfast time– grab a bite and dive in.  Morning time is multi-tasking time– I can do bug fixes, put together bids for projects, etc.  Anything that can be done in under an hour, this is the time for it.  Also, this is when I handle most of my phone and instant-message client communications with clients here in the states.

1pm – 7pm - This is my ‘me and my wife’ time– generally, Becky and I will voyage into town, go to the gym (we play racquetball every day, and we love it!), maybe watch a movie, have a nice lunch, and enjoy life.  It’s nice to be able to run errands and go to the gym while most people are at work– a real time-saver!

7pm – 3am – This is my focus and get things done time.  I’ll make a couple pots of coffee and get to work– This allows me to have fewer interruptions (I turn off my email alerts and chat and get down to business) and also allows me to communicate with my clients in Australia and, towards the end of the night, the UK.

So if you get an email from me in the middle of the night– don’t be alarmed, that’s just how I work!

To all our customers: thanks for making this a busy summer for us.  To all our future customers: we can’t wait to check out your project!

Best,
Sam