Archive for August, 2007
August 31, 2007 at 11:51 am · Filed under Resources
It is called Image Menu and uses Moo Tools. I found this example on AjaxRain.com which is a vault for Ajax, Javascript and DHTML examples. The demo is located at PhatFusion.net and it also lists the features, usages and options.
After I downloaded the Javascript and CSS I changed the menu of my own site. With the new funky looking menu, I’ve decided to change the whole theme of the site and now it looks like this. I am not sure how long this will last, as I’ve tried many funky stuff before but eventually I turn back to my old and simple looking site. Try it yourself and have fun.
August 31, 2007 at 11:32 am · Filed under Interest, Playground, Resources
Today my new class LinkMeIn was released on PHPClasses.org. I have developed this class about couple of months back but did not have enough time to sit and arrange the files to upload on PHPClasses.org. After Grab Yahoo and MySpace Profile Updater classes this is my third class for same type. This class allows any registered LinkedIn.com user to enter their login information and get the contact list. The list is returned as an array or RSS 2.0 format.
I will update LinkMeIn class in future to add more functionalities to it. For the time being if you want to test it, please visit the LinkMeIn Demo location. To report any bug please use PHPClasses.org Support Forum and if you want to contact me directly please go to the Contact section.
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August 24, 2007 at 10:07 pm · Filed under Interest, Playground, Resources
I have added a new functionality for the Grab Yahoo class. Soon after I released the patch, I figured out that I could add this new functionality which did not take me much time to implement. This new feature will allow you to grab your Yahoo! Calendar in an array format.
Using Yahoo’s calendar export feature, I grab the CSV file and parse it to form an array. This was a very simple addition as it uses same method as Address Book parsing. Only thing that was different was the way I had to parse the CSV, which Yahoo creates for Outlook. I don’t have any further plan to upgrade this class but do have other plans to build similar web service based classes.
Please download the latest version of grab yahoo class (v.1.3) here.
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August 20, 2007 at 10:57 pm · Filed under Interest, Playground, Resources
Last week suddenly my Grab Yahoo class stopped working for Address Book section. After Mr Mandy Singh reported the bug on phpclasses.org discussion board I started digging to resolve the issue.
When requesting the address book CSV from Yahoo a value for the key “crumb” is sent in the query string. Earlier Yahoo never checked for the validity of the variable but they have changed the way it is used. Now they check if the value for “crumb” is valid or not. As my script was using a predefined value and it has expired, Yahoo server could not validate. Yahoo was showing an error stating “Invalid or missing crumb”.
I modified my class so that it first loads the page from where request for the CSV is made. From the source of the page, it locates the latest value for crumb assigned by Yahoo and uses that value to send request for the address book CSV file. It is now working as expected. If you find any bug please report it on phpclasses.org discussion board.
Please download the latest version of Grab Yahoo class (v. 1.2.1) here.
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