integrations

Cloudbridge Mattermost

Cloudbridge Mattermost is a WordPress plugin that provides integration between WordPress and Mattermost. In the initial release, we focus on login notifications (successful, failed, unknown) from the various WordPress user roles.

We will, of course, be adding more functionality in the future.

You can download it from the official WordPress repository:
wordpress.org/plugins/cloudbridge-mattermost

You can also get it from GitHub, should you prefer that source:
github.com/joho1968/cloudbridge-mattermost

This is the initial release of this plugin.

NCweb 0.0.5, your Nextcloud Web Server

NCweb 0.0.5 has been released, yay 🙂

You can grab a copy here if you’re curious about the changes, if not, carry on.

If you want to read more about NCweb, check out the GitHub repository

The initial announcement can be found here

Spoiler alert: This is possibly a completely useless application if you do not run Nextcloud, don’t have PHP or don’t know what PHP is, or don’t run Nginx or Apache. And even if you do meet the criteria, it may still disappoint you as well as being useless to you.

NCweb, serve static website content from Nextcloud

NCweb is a reasonably small (ish) PHP “application” that will allow you to expose a given folder of a Nextcloud instance and serve documents from it as if it would have been a regular website. The folder does not have to be shared in Nextcloud. You can serve .html (HTML) or .md (Markdown) files. NCweb can be configured to render Markdown files to HTML.

Get it from Github here: github.com/joho1968/NCweb

Nextcloud and WebDAV “SEARCH” requests

Using WebDAV to access Nextcloud resources is a pretty nice way to write integrations for Nextcloud. While adding support for Nextcloud file browsing in a service we’re constantly improving, I ran into a minor snag: How to format the WebDAV “SEARCH” request when interfacing with Nextcloud.

1. The example in the official documentation is correct. You just have to read it carefully. In particular, pay attention to this:

Search requests can be made by sending a SEARCH http request to https://cloud.example.com/remote.php/dav/ with a content type of text/xml and the query as xml in the request body.

2. Make sure you structure your XML data properly, in particular, you need to make sure you include a d:prop of which “field” you want your search data to be applied to.

<d:searchrequest xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:oc="http://owncloud.org/ns">
  <d:basicsearch>
    <d:select>
      <d:prop>
        <oc:fileid/>
        <d:displayname/>
        <d:getcontenttype/>
      </d:prop>
    </d:select>
    <d:from>
      <d:scope>
        <d:href>/files/testuser/</d:href>
        <d:depth>infinity</d:depth>
      </d:scope>
    </d:from>
    <d:where>
      <d:like>
        <d:prop>
          <d:displayname/>
        </d:prop>
        <d:literal>Nextcloud%</d:literal>
      </d:like>
    </d:where>
    <d:orderby/>
  </d:basicsearch>
</d:searchrequest>

This would search for files beginning with Nextcloud and return fileid, displayname, and the content type; the search will be made in the folders that testuser has access to.

And that’s that.