Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category
A while ago I had to build a registration form which required me to allow a user to select a country, state and then a city. It’s normal for registration forms to require such information and I was looking for a way to do this with ease. There are numerous javascript solutions out there which [...]
Everyone knows about the Amazon E-Commerce services and everyone loves it. It’s a simple, too simple really, way of starting your own Amazon affiliate store. Not to mention for gathering information from Amazon. Take a look at Amazon.com and you’ll see why people want that information, they have everything, literally. Amazon also has another very [...]
I had a very interesting project this week, to integrate the HSBC online payment gateway into a custom built shopping store. I have never done this before and I admitted as much to my clients but I was adamant on learning it so I took up the project. The clients were very understanding and decided [...]
Paypal‘s IPN can be frustrating at times and any programmer who’s worked with the IPN would know what the sandbox is for. It’s truly a wonderful thing. It let’s developers test out the IPN integration without having to spend anything through their own account.
Wordnet is Princeton’s online lexical reference system. It’s a wonderful piece of work really. Wordnet prints out synonyms, meanings and what not of words depending on the use of the word. (That’s the best way I can describe it in layman’s terms.) It also has the power to differentiate between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs [...]
It’s been a fun couple of days playing with the directi API. I started off totally confused unable to figureout anything. But that always happens when you encounter a new API which you have never used before. Lack of examples on how to use the API on google didn’t help either. The API documentation is [...]
Wonderful is the word. For those who don’t know what AWS is, it’s the Amazon API for accessing their info. There are hundreds and hundreds of sites out there using this API to power their affiliates stores. Amazon pays the affiliates 10% of all sales generated if the site manages to make a sale for [...]
I recently recieved a project from ScriptLance to generate PDF reports from MySQL data using PHP. I hadn’t really experimented with report generation in PHP so I had little idea what I was getting into. So I surfed over to PHP.net and started reading. A few minutes later I tried out a couple of examples [...]