where tacit becomes explicit through codification
Friendster (www.friendster.com) is one of popular social network in the internet. Through this short article we will demonstrate how to post shoutout message to your Friendster account using PHP and curl. Shoutout in Friendster is just like status message in Facebook. Here is the code to post the shoutout to Friendster. Continue reading ‘Posting Shoutout Message to Friendster using PHP and curl’ »
We will visualize the official earthquake data from U.S Geological Survey (USGS) into the chart using FusionCharts Free. USGS has earthquake feed is available on http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/eqs1day-M2.5.xml. We will feed this data and draw it into FusionCharts Free. Continue reading ‘Visualize Realtime USGS Earthquake Data using FusionCharts Free, PHP and Ajax (prototype.js)’ »
Back to 1998 when I was learning the SMTP protocol, that moment was very interesting for me to learn something new, one of fundamental protocol on the internet. You can read the details of the SMTP protocol here. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Created by Jonathan B Postel, the objective is simple, to transfer mail reliably and efficiently. The SMTP protocol still used today by many e-mail clients software. Continue reading ‘Sending E-mail using Telnet’ »
Fortunately we have time to play with FusionCharts again. Now we will playing with real-world case. We will visualize the official earthquake data from U.S Geological Survey (USGS) into the chart using FusionCharts. I am using FusionCharts Developer licence in this case. USGS has earthquake feed on http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/eqs1day-M2.5.xml. We will feed this data and draw it into FusionCharts. Continue reading ‘Create Realtime USGS Earthquake Data Chart with FusionCharts using PHP and Ajax (prototype.js)’ »
In the past days, IRC is very popular chat network in the world. Many people using it to chat with friends over the world. Nowdays IRC is less popular than other services, such Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Gtalk, Facebook Chat etc, but IRC still used on some community such as developer community. For example, CakePHP community often available on irc.freenode.net #cakephp, CodeIgniter also available on the same server at #codeigniter.
Now we will try to do fun things. Yes, we will simulate connection to IRC server not using IRC client software but only using Telnet. Again, this is for personal fun things. I just do it for remembering the past when learning the IRC protocol. Continue reading ‘Connect to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Network using Telnet’ »
Playing with APIs on other web service is always fun. Now we will talking about utilizing the Zend Framework’s Zend_Gdata class to manipulate user account on your Google Apps account. Nowdays there many people or institutions using Google Apps as their e-mail solutions. If you are using Google Apps Premier Edition and Google Apps Education Edition you will have access to Google Provisioning API. To enable the API, log in to your admin account, and click the Users and groups tab. Then click the Settings subtab, select the checkbox to enable the Provisioning API and save your changes. (You will need to complete the steps for setting up Google Apps before you can log in to your admin account.) Continue reading ‘Using Google Apps Provisioning API with Zend Framework Gdata Class to Manipulate User Account’ »
One of our readers ask me about Gmail API availability. Yes, right now there is no Gmail API from Google. They only provide Gmail Atom Feed to get the unread messages from a particular Gmail user account. How to do that? Here is the simple code using PHP libcurl and Zend_Http_Client class. Continue reading ‘Access to Unread Gmail Messages using Gmail’s Atom Feed and PHP’ »
After reading the How to Install Zend Framework? article, some of the reader asking about how to use Zend Framework without editing the php.ini file. Yes, good question. Actually there is another way to achive this. You can use the ini_set() function to set the value on your PHP configuration option. Here is the sample of using ini_set() to change the value of ‘include_path’ on your PHP configuration. Continue reading ‘How to Use Zend Framework without Editing php.ini File?’ »
LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) is one of the famous professional social network in the world. They connect many professionals around the world through their network. One of nice feature on LinkedIn is you can update status message. They called it ‘What are you working on?’. Here is simple PHP code that can update status message on your LinkedIn account. This code is using PHP libcurl. Continue reading ‘Update Status on LinkedIn using PHP’ »
One of very common feature on a community or social network website is ‘forget password’ feature. What the hell is that? Well, it’s seems this feature is not important, but actually it will be useful if the member of the site was forgot their password. How to create a simple but quite good ‘forget password’ feature? As usual, we will need a scenario to reproduce our problem. But before we talk about the scenario, we will cover about our ‘forget password’ mechanism first. Continue reading ‘Create a Simple ‘Forget Password’ Feature using PHP’ »
