I was starting to work with the LULU api and was trying to automate the whole process through our website, dont know why but they have discontinued their service by the end of APRIL this year. Here is a message on thir portal.
http://connect.lulu.com/t5/Frequently-Asked-Questions/Lulu-Developer-Portal-Update/td-p/289614
I tried to work without the API through PHP's curl but they have a very complex form wizard and dont know why its not working. I am now hoping if there is some kind of system which can automate the form submission just like a human.
Any help is appreciated.
The old publishing API needed support resources that we couldn't offer at the time unfortunately. The new version is out and has its own support team.
https://api.lulu.com/docs/
It would depend on what you are trying to accomplish. There are other players in the book world that have automated APIs. Here are some of them:
http://www.createspace.com/
http://www.ondemandbooks.com/
http://www1.lightningsource.com/
The closest matching to what Lulu's APIs used to do is probably Peecho:
http://www.peecho.com/
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How can I search people by according to their interests? Is there any feature in the Graph API, or is there any API available to do this?
I need to integrate this feature with my php project, so kindly let me know if it is possible with php.
I don't think so yet, because it's still a beta feature that you can enable through your account. Meaning that not everybody is using it yet, so not many results will be shown if that api was available now.
I have a client who wants me to implement the Grooveshark API into his site to be used as a fully fledged music system. It will be able to play, pause and skip songs from playlists that the user creates and and tracks the user favourites. So the user will have the ability to search for a track, add to playlist, favourite, play and the reverse of all these actions.
My question is. How do I get started. So I have the API (well the public version http://www.apishark.com as I am waiting for the full version to be sent to me). I look at the API and I just see what appears to me to be short snippets of code.
Is there some kind of a default way to implement an API, what do I need to know, how do I go about this task?
Any help will be appreciated.
Here you can find a php class to ease your work. It's not free but it's extremely cheap, and if you are not able to sort our how to use a standard REST api, and you have to do this for a work, maybe it's worth the price.
Or you can try here for a free class, but I never tried it and you have to use git to download the last version. I believe it's still under development, though.
Or, here you find a free python script that maybe it's easy to convert in PHP. Same here for a perl module.
I am not sure whether this is an appropriate question to ask in this board, but anyone with experience of integrating KashFlow or Xero with a zend-php application could help me. We are on the dilemma of selecting our invoicing system for our SaaS. I was going through all the reviews and trying out myself all the options in both the systems. It seems like Xero has a clean interface and gives you what you need at the right time. Apart from the user interface I am really concerned about the Integration side of things.
Xero gives oAuth integrating and KashFlow gives Web services. Our plan is to automate the invoicing process(rolling monthly invoicing) and payment processing with the Accounting software. Our existing system is build in php and zend framework. Could anyone please suggest me with some quick strong points which is really convincing to help us choose one of them.
Sorry for not tagging kashflow and xero as i do not have enough reputation.
Cheers...
I dont have a sheet that compares Xero & Kashflow (I havent worked with Kashflow) but this PDF provides a comparison between Xero & Sassu http://help.xero.com/help/resources/XerovsSaasuSumm.pdf << Online software is updated so frequently that both products have moved on since this link was first posted and now no longer exists. To think about how Xero compares to another product you're using or considering, ask yourself these questions: http://www.xero.com/compare/ (OG from Xero)
Sorry to further confuse things but have you looked at Saasu also? Possibly more powerful in terms of what you can store with their tags and activity system plus they do automated sales within the application itself.
Have you seen the PHP wrapper for the KashFlow API? http://accountingapi.com/examplecode.asp
The KashFlow API is very comprehensive, but if there are any missing functions that you need then email support#kashflow.com and we'll see if we can add them - we usually can, and pretty quickly too.
KashFlow have recently announced that they are going to revamp their api and add oAuth and REST support.
I am going to be creating a website which will require up-to-date prices on certain iPhone apps, which I know is possible because the website AppShopper does just that except they do it with every website. I am not that skilled using PHP though I am a quick learner.
I think that I will need to create a spider/scraper that takes the values from the website though I have done lots of research and I haven't figured it out, though I this may not be what I need. I am not familiar with the creation of spiders, though I am willing to learn. This will not be the key-point of the site so it doesn't need to be the most robust system, I would just like to be able to have it updated the prices
I would appreciate any help or suggestions that anyone has to offer.
There is an official Search API provided by Apple. I haven't used it myself, but it's worth looking into. Read more here.
Simple question really, I've been looking all over the Internet probably for the past few days for several hours a day looking for some solid information on OpenID and Facebook Connect integration on a website.
I have seen the same names popup such as Janrain offering their solution, but I see a lot of websites such as Invision Power Board forums and even here at StackOverflow utilising different solutions.
The main two logins we wish to accept on our site are Facebook and Twitter. I've really been looking for a tutorial, or at least a guide to incorporating this functionality into a PHP website.
If anyone has any information or any pointers that would be great.
Thanks!
I'd start with the official docs. They're pretty good.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/sign_in_with_twitter
The twitter one is a little more obtuse, but it's still pretty easy to follow.
For Twitter, just use their simple JavaScript SDK:
http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin
But I would really avoid implementing these services myself. E.g. Twitter anywhere is maybe painless to setup, but then you rely on their JavaScript. It's been down before and then your page takes ages to load or doesn't load at all.
I haven't tried the new Facebook APIs, but 2 years ago, I wasted a way a week of my life trying to integrate their API and the general idea I got was -- unless you know someone at Facebook that can check out some log or let you know why this API doesn't respond like it's supposed to, you're just on your own.
We do use Janrain's engage product (free). It works really, really well.
Dealing with all these services directly is a royal (!) PITA. They are down, change how they work, mis-behave -- it's good to outsource that to someone who seems to know all the ins and outs. In our case Janrain.
There's a copy and paste Facebook login button solution out there. It's also free. It's developed by LaunchBit. You could try that.
http://toolkit.launchbit.com