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PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Practical PHP Mashups with Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!: Create practical mashups in PHP grabbing ... MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, and 411Sync.com
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $35.99
Author: Shu-Wai Chow
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing

Create practical mashups in PHP grabbing and mixing data from Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, and 411Sync.com

  • Expand your website and applications using mashups
  • Gain a thorough understanding of mashup fundamentals
  • Clear, detailed walk-through of the key PHP mashup building technologies
  • Five fully implemented example mashups with full code

In Detail

A mashup is a web page or application that combines data from two or more external online sources into an integrated experience. This book is your entryway to the world of mashups and Web 2.0. You will create PHP projects that grab data from one place on the Web, mix it up with relevant information from another place on the Web and present it in a single application.

This book is made up of five real-world PHP projects. Each project begins with an overview of the technologies and protocols needed for the project, and then dives straight into the tools used and details of creating the project:

  • Look up products on Amazon.Com from their code in the Internet UPC database
  • A fully customized search engine with MSN Search and Yahoo!
  • A personal video jukebox with YouTube and Last.FM
  • Deliver real-time traffic incident data via SMS and the California Highway Patrol!
  • Display pictures sourced from Flickr in Google maps

All the mashup applications used in the book are built upon free tools and are thoroughly explained. You will find all the source code used to build the mashups used in this book in the code download section for this book.

What you will learn from this book?

You will learn how to write PHP code to remotely consume services like Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, and the Internet UPC Database, not to mention the California Highway Patrol Traffic data! You will also learn about the technologies, data formats, and protocols needed to use these web services and APIs, and some of the freely-available PHP tools for working with them.
You will understand how these technologies work with each other and see how to use this information, in combination with your imagination, to build your own cutting-edge websites.

Approach

This book is a practical tutorial with five detailed and carefully explained case studies to build new and effective mashup applications.

Who this book is written for?

If you feel confident with your PHP programming, familiar with the basics of HTML and CSS, unafraid of XML, and interested in mashing things up, this is the book for you!

There are a lot of formats and protocols, web services and web APIs encountered in this book -- you do not need to know anything about them or about AJAX; you will find all you need in the book.

The Last DJ
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $13.98
Artist: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
UPC: 093624795520
The first album in more than three years, following their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Featured tracks include 'The Last DJ', 'Have Love Will Travel' & 'Dreamville'. Also includes enhanced CD-Rom footage shot during the recording of the album. Digipak. Warner Bros. 2002.

LAST POEMS (LAST POEMS )
Price: $0.99
Author: A. E. Housman
LAST POEMS

By A. E. Housman

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I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which in the early months of 1895 I wrote the greater part of my first book, nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came; and it is best that what I have written should be printed while I am here to see it through the press and control its spelling and punctuation. About a quarter of this matter belongs to the April of the present year, but most of it to dates between 1895 and 1910.
September 1922

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We'll to the weeds no more,
The laurels are all cut,
The bowers are bare of bay
That once the Muses wore;
The year draws in the day
And soon will evening shut:
The laurels all are cut,
We'll to the woods no more.
Oh we'll no more, no more
To the leafy woods away,
To the high wild woods of laurel
And the bowers of bay no more.

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