Inline Stock Quote Plugin for Wordpress - by Ryan Barr - Download stock quotes straight into your posts!

Add In-line Stock Quote Data to your Posts. Based on the StockQuoteTT Plug-in by Andrew Hill. I took the framework that Andrew Hill put together and instead of setting up stock quote tool tips, which were driving me nuts based upon my sites design, I pulled in the current data from yahoo.com and placed it in-line.

This is my first Wordpress plug-in, so I welcome any commentary on improvements etc…

Version: 0.2
Tested on Wordpress versions: 2.3.1, 2.3.2

Usage

To use the plug-in, simply extract the files from the zip and drop it into your plug-ins folder. There is a sample .css file included that you can place into your style-sheet for customization.

After you extract the files and activate the plug-in, it would be best to sneak over to the ‘Options’ section and configure the plug-in. From there, you should be good to go. The plug-in acts as a content filter so you don’t really need to do anything else.

Enjoy!

Change Log

0.1 - Initial Release
0.2 - Enhancements for page load speed and protection against timeout
- Added support for CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT parameter via the options control page.
- Moved query to global function and usage of global variables to reduce the number of queries made to the yahoo engine and speed up page load time.

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Version 0.1 - Inline Stock Quote Plugin Version 0.2

Tags: plugin,wordpress

Categories: Web Development

2 Responses to “Inline Stock Quote Plugin”

toqueboy wrote a comment on February 1, 2008

this seems like a great tool but when i install on 2.3.2 i get all the classic stock plugin errors…perhaps i am doing something wrong?

Warning: fopen(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10020 is not allowed to access /tmp/inlinestockquote8eHnlG owned by uid 48 in /var/www/vhosts/simplesimple.ca/subdomains/secure/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/inlinequote/InlineQuote.php on line 111

etc etc

thoughts? i’d love to use this.

Ryan wrote a comment on February 1, 2008

I’m not a huge PHP guy, but it looks like it has to do with file ownership.

In the code, the results from yahoo are downloaded to a temporary directory on your server and then used.

This might work… create a new directory on your server, in a place you ‘own’. Then modify the code on line 109 from
$tmpquotename = tempnam(”", “inlinestockquote”);
to
$tmpquotename = tempnam(”/YOURNEWDIRECTORY”, “inlinestockquote”);

If that doesn’t do the trick, take a look at this post describing what is going on with a different piece of software:
http://drupal.org/node/182058

Let me know how that goes. The plugin doesn’t ‘need’ to use a temporary file, so as a last resort that could be removed and the code could be modified.