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On the Zend Developer Zone today, there’s a tutorial put together by Cal Evans showing how to use the WebThumb API via a PHP 5 script.
It’s a simple service on the surface. You hand it a URL, it gives you back a thumbnail of that web site. At first glance you may think…”ok, why?” The answer to that is of course, “it depends”.
He gives examples of reasons it would be needed (designers wanting to show off screenshots of a site or a replacement for Alexa’s thumbnailing service) and the code that is needed to make things work. The script asks for the three properties the API needs - a URL for the target site, the height of the browser “window” taking the shot, and the width of this same “window”.
Cal show examples of the messages sent back and forth and includes the code for the PHP 5 class to make the request along with some sample usage code. The class makes a basic HTTP request to the API with the XML payload and waits for the response - an estimate of the time for the job and the URL that the results can be found at.
In this part of the series we will be writing the administration of the blog. The idea is to give the owner of the blog the ability to manage the blog by being able to remove users and articles as required or to alter the status of users by upgrading them to admin status or banning them. It is also a place where the administrator can start new topics that will then garner their own replies….
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DevShed continues their look at the creation of a simple blogging script with part three of the series (part 1, part 2) - the creation of an admin utility to work with the contents of the blog.
The idea is to give the owner of the blog the ability to manage the blog by being able to remove users and articles as required, or to alter the status of users by upgrading them to admin status or banning them. It is also a place where the administrator can start new topics that will then garner their own replies.
They go through the creation of the main admin script (functionality managed with a switch statement, including other external PHP files) and the functions that go in each of those individual files to make things work - managing messages, managing users, and managing categories.
The International PHP Magazine has posted the results from their latest poll on their site today. The question of the week this time was “which of the following is your favorite category of PHP functionality?”
Among the options, there was “General PHP”, “PHP Design”, “PHP & XML” and “PHP Security”. The one that came out on top, however, was “PHP & Databases” with 26.4% of the vote. Next in line was tied up between two options - “General PHP” and “PHP & Business/Ingegration” both with 15.3% of the votes.
Be sure anc check out (and vote on) their new poll for the week asking readers what they think is the biggest advantage of making to move to PHP5 for their scripts.