Apparently PayPal has changed their sandbox developer account setup UI and such since I wrote this post together with the PDT and IPN blog posts.
Luckily it’s much easier now, and you should be able to get all the information you need from their own PayPal Sandbox Testing Guide. I’ve also decided to delete the old contents of this post to prevent anyone from trying to follow the now incorrect steps ๐
So, I was fooling around the other day with an HTML table and wanted to make the odd rows slightly darker. Figured I could use for example an 80% transparent black PNG to do that (or could have just assigned a darker color, but where’s the fun in that?). Either way, ended up making a little something that I thought I could share just for the fun of it. I learned a few things, so maybe someone else can too ๐
So, here’s how to make a small transparent PNG filler image on-the-fly using PHP ๐
I just managed to mess up the MySQL root account. Not a smart idea. After some MySQL manual reading and some serious Google-Fu, I figured out how to fix it.
Tadaa.
After some digging around, I found that it actually wasn’t that difficult at all.
Putting something in an assembly as an embedded resource is pretty easy. At least if you are using Visual Studio. Just add the file to your project, click on it, and then under Properties set Build Action to Embedded Resource. And thats it!
Lets say we want an image called hello.png in a folder called Wopdidoo as a Stream.
If we are executing code in the same assembly, we can do as follows:
If you are not executing code in the same assembly you just have to get that assembly reference in a different way. I often use Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(T)), where T is some type you know exists in the same assembly as the file you want. The rest is the same.
As far as I know, you use the stream as any other stream. Not sure if it is writable though? Probably not… let me know if you have some brilliant clues on that matter ๐
รขลกย Remember to Dispose it when you are done.
I sometimes find it a bit difficult to figure out that string which identifies the resource. I then often use the following code to “find” it:
It basically just scans through all the resource names and prints them out to the debug console ๐