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How selected autoplay works and messages are created in webclient

Post author:PrP-11
Post published:August 9, 2018
Post category:FOSSASIA GSoC SUSI.AI
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In this post we will discuss the message model of SUSI.AI webclient and how youtube autoplay features selectively autoplays only the last played song from youtube. The answer or response to any query to susi is send by server in json format, which is just a raw form of data which is then used by webclient to create the message in desired form in different action types. Every response to a query is given in an array of action types with each element in the array is a snippet of HTML codes. This array is called the messageListItem. This messageListItem array is further, a part of a bigger array which contains all the codes for the query, answer and date elements. This array is called the messageListItems. This contains the final code block of all the messages displayed on the web client. All this is handled by two files MessageListItem.js and MessageSection.js and we will discuss their working below in detail.

Implementing YouTube Search API with WebClient

Post author:PrP-11
Post published:August 8, 2018
Post category:FOSSASIA GSoC SUSI.AI
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SUSI.AI is an assistant which enables us to create a lot of skills. These skills offer various functionalities which performs different actions. Therefore SUSI has implemented various action types. Some of these are:

Answer
Table
Maps
Rss
audio_play
video_play

When a user answers a query the server sends response in form of actions type. The client then scans the response JSON object and checks the type of action and performs the desired operations. This action types are verified by

Adding Messaging Route in Ember.js for Admin UI of Open Event Frontend

Post author:utkarshnath
Post published:July 17, 2017
Post category:FOSSASIA Open Event
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In this blog post I am explaining how we implement a messages page for admins to keep track of all types of system messages sent to users in the Open Event Frontend. The page shows the types of messages sent out to various users at one place and as well as additional details. It offers configuration options to control which messages get sent out as emails or notifications or both. And, the page shows when and what message should be sent via notification or mail.
To create the messages page we’ll run the following command

ember generate route admin/messages

This will create

This command will also add this.route(‘messages’); to router.js. As admin is the parent route for messages, messages will be nested inside admin in router.js

this.route(‘admin’, function(){
this.route(‘messages’);
});

Let’s now understand the content of each of above files.

Messages.js

In admin/messages.js we have used titletoken helper to set the title of the tab. Here we have created the message model and added attribute like recipient, trigger, emailMessage, notificationMessage, options and sentAt. We have returned this model from the js file to template.

import Ember from ’ember’;
const { Route } = Ember;
export default Route.extend({
titleToken() {
   return this.l10n.t(‘Messages’);
},
model() {
   return [{
     recipient: [
       {
         name: ‘Organizer’
       },
       {
         name: ‘Speaker’
       }
     ],
     trigger      : ‘Title1’,
     emailMessage : {
       subject : ‘Email subject1’,
       message : ‘Hi, the schedule for session1 has been changed’
     },
     notificationMessage: {
       subject : ‘Notification subject1’,
       message : ‘Hi, the schedule for session1 has been changed’
     },
     option: {
       mail         : true,
       notification : false,
       userControl : true
     },
     sentAt: new Date()
   }];
}
});

Messages.hbs

In template we have created a table and added classes like stackable and compact. Stackable class makes the table responsive and stacks all the rows for devices with smaller screen size. Compact class helps to show more number of rows at a time.

Then in the template we iterate through the model using a loop. Here we have used other semantic-ui elements like ui ordered list , ui header, ui-checkbox inside the table. For options column we have three attributes denoting how the admin wants to send the message to the user. Here we have grouped three fields using the class grouped fields .In each field we have used semantic’s ui-checkbox .In check-box we are mutating values on click by using mut helper.

<div class=“grouped fields”>
<div class=“field”>
   {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.mail
                 label=(t ‘Mail’)
                 onChange=(action (mut message.option.mail))}}
</div>
<div class=“field”>
   {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.notification
                 label=(t ‘Notification’)
               onChange=(action (mut message.option.notification))}}
</div>

<div class=“field”>
   {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.userControl
                label=(t ‘User Control’)
               onChange=(action (mut message.option.userControl))}}
</div>
</div>

We are getting date object from js and to convert it into human readable format we have used moment like {{moment-format message.sentAt ‘dddd, DD MMMM YYYY’}}

Messages-test.js

import { test } from ’ember-qunit’;
import moduleFor from ‘open-event-frontend/tests/helpers/unit-helper’;

moduleFor(‘route:admin/messages’, ‘Unit | Route | admin/messages’, []);

test(‘it exists’, function(assert) {
let route = this.subject();
assert.ok(route);
});

Using this we can test the existence of our route. These tests are run using the command ember t.

Our message page is ready now. The admin can have a check at all the messages sent to users.

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Engelsytem – Sending messages to users or groups with PHP

Post author:Sreeja Kamishetty
Post published:June 25, 2016
Post category:FOSSASIA

In this post I will be discussing on how to send messages to other users and members of groups in PHP.

Implementation

We need to create a table for Message where we can store sender’s id and receiver id, text which are required while sending and receiving messages.

MYSQL Syntax of Messages Table

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `Messages`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `Messages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `Datum` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `SUID` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `RUID` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `isRead` char(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'N',
  `Text` text NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `Datum` (`Datum`),
  KEY `SUID` (`SUID`),
  KEY `RUID` (`RUID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='Fuers interen Communikationssystem' AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

After initializing the table. we need to create a Page for sending and receiving messages which looks like this

messages

      $messages_table_entry = array(
      'new' => $message['isRead'] == 'N' ? '<span class="glyphicon  glyphicon-envelope"></span>' : '',
          'timestamp' => date("Y-m-d H:i", $message['Datum']),
          'from' => User_Nick_render($sender_user_source),
          'to' => User_Nick_render($receiver_user_source),
          'text' => str_replace("\n", '<br />', $message['Text']) 
      );

The message table looks something like this.

we need to store the sender and receiver id and update the message table .The function for sending messages looks something like this.

function Message_send($id, $text) {
  global $user;
  $text = preg_replace("/([^\p{L}\p{P}\p{Z}\p{N}\n]{1,})/ui", '', strip_tags($text));
  $to = preg_replace("/([^0-9]{1,})/ui", '', strip_tags($id));

  if (($text != "" && is_numeric($to)) && (sql_num_query("SELECT * FROM `User` WHERE `UID`='" . sql_escape($to) . "' AND NOT `UID`='" . sql_escape($user['UID']) . "' LIMIT 1") > 0)) {
    sql_query("INSERT INTO `Messages` SET `Datum`='" . sql_escape(time()) . "', `SUID`='" . sql_escape($user['UID']) . "', `RUID`='" . sql_escape($to) . "', `Text`='" . sql_escape($text) . "'");
    return true;
  } else {
    return false;
  }
}

this function is to send message $id is the id of receiver and $text is the text message.

To delete messages

        
 $message = sql_select("SELECT * FROM `Messages` WHERE `id`='" . sql_escape($id) . "' LIMIT 1");
 if (count($message) > 0 && $message[0]['SUID'] == $user['UID']) {
          sql_query("DELETE FROM `Messages` WHERE `id`='" . sql_escape($id) . "' LIMIT 1");
          redirect(page_link_to("user_messages"));
        } else
          return error(_("No Message found."), true);

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