Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

October 16th, 2008

Jinzora Addon – Set Last.fm as the default search

Comments Off, PHP, Programming, by jay.

This is a simple hack that I did because I’d rather search last.fm for band info then google.
Just place the lastfmphp file in /[YOUR-JINZORA-DIRECTORY]/services/services/link/

April 2nd, 2007

Facebook Opens Some of their Server Code

Comments Off, PHP, by jay.

From the Facebook Site:
“Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Thrift was developed at Facebook, and we are now releasing it as open source.”
Facebook [...]

January 30th, 2007

phpYahoo Project Page Created

4 Comments, API, PHP, Web2.0, by jay.

I have started a Google Projects Page for my phpYahoo project as well as a new demo site.
I did some extensive work on the class recently by adding caching as well as expanding the search functions to allow searching by either a single string parameter or and array of parameters.
Links

Project Page
Documentation
Example Web Search

January 26th, 2007

phpYahoo: An Unofficial Yahoo Search API

Comments Off, API, PHP, by jay.

*updated – 2007-01-26*
phpYahoo is a class written in PHP5 that act’s as a wrapper for Yahoo’s! Web Search API. Methods process the response XML and return an array of data to make development easier. With this class you can search for Yahoo! Web content, Yahoo! Videos or Yahoo! Images.
This class follows a similar pattern like [...]

phpNapster is an Unofficial Napster Search API written in PHP5. The origin comes from here and I have merely wrapped it up in a neat package.
This class allows you to search Napster via Artist, Album or Track but be fore warned that if the results come back empty Napster displays an HTTP 404 type [...]

December 20th, 2006

Using phpFlickr and YUI to Create a Ajax Enabled Flickr Slideshow

Comments Off, AJAX, PHP, by jay.

This is an update to this post with the change being that I swapped out Lightbox JS (Scriptaculous/Prototype) in place of the Yahoo! User Interface Library.
The result is a minor performance increase using the YUI over Prototype.

The title says it all. In this tutorial I’ll explain how to build a dynamic data grid for browsing data. This is not a perfect data grid solution that can be just dropped onto a page, it requires a bit of hands on tweaking, but the end result is pretty amazing.
This code uses [...]