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The Twitter OAuth PHP Class Gets Even Better
Or perhaps simpler?.. Together with the Twitter API itself, the TwitterOAuth PHP class (the one by Abraham Williams) is being updated too! According to GitHub the latest changeset was commited on December 3rd so yeah, I tried to take a look at what...
Facebook API Experiments: Twitter Tags
For quite some time now I’ve been dreaming about getting into the Facebook Platform (API, Markup Language, etc) but haven’t had good enough reasons to do so. One good friend of mine Timothy gave me those reasons not so long ago and guess ...
Google Docs API: Client Login with PHP and Curl
A few days ago I started looking deeper into the Google Code APIs and threw a few experiments using the Google Documents List Data API. Unfortunately, the only library they have for the third version of their protocol is written in Java. There is a P...
Automated Twitter Bot in PHP: Remote Control
Hope you’ve all read the first part of this series – Create Your Own Automated Twitter Robot in PHP and got your own prototype up and running. Today we’ll be adding a remote control feature to our robot. It’ll be working throu...
Create Your Own Automated Twitter Robot in PHP
The ultimate guide to creating your own personalized twitterfeed clone! Kidding… Actualy this is just a mockup, a simple prototype, which is way too fresh for any actual use. We’ll take this forward step by step. I’m not going to gi...
Twitter API: PIN-based OAuth Using PHP
A few weeks ago we discussed Automated Serverside Tweeting Using OAuth (read this before going on) and I kept looking deeper into security issues, so I found a way to make things slightly simpler. If you played with the OAuth Clients page on Twitter,...
WordPress: Recent Comments by Category
Yet another WordPress code snippet ;) I’ve got two major categories in my upcoming project – Blogs and Arts. In the archive, somewhere in the sidebar, I’d like to output the recent comments only from the chosen category, excluding t...
Automated Serverside Tweeting Using OAuth
Great, our Foller.me Rundown account (@fmrd) now tweets via OAuth and has our application name and link attached to every tweet. It was indeed pretty simple. After reading the specs of the OAuth protocol I came up with a fairly simple solution. IR...
Cloud Tips: Backing Up MySQL on Amazon EC2 to S3
Now that I’m all set up in the Amazon cloud I’m starting to think about backups. Elastic Block Storage (EBS) on Amazon is great and the Snapshots (backups) can be generated with a few clicks from the Management Console, but, for a few rea...
Working With Amazon EC2: Tips & Tricks
It’s been a while now since I’ve been hosting on Amazon Web Services and I’d just like to point out some issues I had and quick ways of solving them. We’re gonna talk about setting up a server that would serve not only you, bu...
Thickbox and jQuery in WordPress 2.8
The update was great! The new features in WordPress 2.8 are awesome! Most of my Twitter friends have updated to 2.8 and haven’t had a single issue. The new widgets area is so cool! Oh jeez, I’m so excited. For a full features list check o...
PHP: Thinking ahead
Hey. Some of you might have already heard about me launching a computer graphics web 2.0 thingy here in Russia and that is basically the reason why I’m working on this series of php classes. Why didn’t I choose to run some WordPress, Word...
PHP: More on Users
Still working on that User class I wrote about a couple of days ago and yeah, I’ve got some major changes, that increased the class usability and probably flexibility. I posted my thoughts in the comments for that post, and got some positive ma...
PHP: The User class snippet
Okay, this is gonna be fun. I just finished my own version of the User class in php. I know there are millions of others around, but I didn’t find one that would suit my project - they’re all too complicated and unflexible. I’ll sta...
Logger and Timer snippets
Hey. I’ve just started writing my simplest classes for a new content management micro-system in php, and I’d like to share some moments with you. These classes will probably be good for php noobs out there struggling in the world of objec...
WordPress - Social networking
I’m currently building a tiny social network for vector artists to post their artwork and get feedback. Anyways, I’ve been doing that for almost a year already and still can’t get it finished :) I’ve got design, I’ve got...
