Building a Complete Web Searching Class with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Welcome to the final part of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. As the title claims this series walks you through the basic concepts surrounding the correct utilization of the most relevant web search services provided by Yahoo and puts the corresponding ...

Using Yahoo Web Services to Perform Searches with an Object-Oriented Approach

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

If you re a PHP developer who wants to take the first steps toward building web applications that interact with specific web services in this article series you ll find an approachable guide to implementing some of the most useful search services provided by Yahoo by using a ...

Defining Some Custom PHP Functions with Yahoo Web Services

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Welcome to the fourth installment of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. Made up of six approachable tutorials this series provides you with the right pointers to start using these useful web services within the context of your PHP 5-driven applications. It complements ...

Fetching Search Results as Serialized Arrays with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

In this second article of the series dealing with the implementation of some of the most useful web services offered by Yahoo with PHP 5 I ll show you how to parse the results returned by a determined web search service using a few array PHP processing functions.... Microsoft ...

Using Yahoo! Web Services with PHP 5

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

In the last few years the utilization of different web services has become very popular with web developers. This growing trend owes a lot to the development of so-called mashup applications where many of these web services are put to work seamlessly in conjunction generally using a ...

Yahoo’s E-Commerce Services Buckle Under Cyber Monday Traffic

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Yahoo’s services for powering shopping carts for small businesses are suffering from intermittent outages today as shoppers flock to e-commerce sites on company time. Apparently during check out at various stores users are periodically receiving a “system unavailable” message. The problems are now 4 or 5 hours deep, ...

Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge Finalists

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

The Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge that kicked off last September has narrowed it down to a few finalists. There are 7 companies left in the running. As you may recall from our previous coverage, the participating startups had to have originality, be creative, diverse and of course ...