I'm building a mobile app which will call a search engine on my website. I have PHP code to detect if a person is coming in through a Mobile device. However, I want to see if I can detect if they are coming in through my app versus a regular page browse.
In the past, I've had a hidden field on a form submission, but this is not feasible anymore.
I want to know if there is a way if somebody accesses a page on my website through the mobile app or a mobile browser?
One option is to pass a PHP $_GET parameter, but I'm looking for other solutions.
Perhaps override the user agent used in the mobile app, or send an additional header that your PHP scripts can look for
You can modify the default user agent to identify your application.
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Kind of an odd question but still wanted to check.Is there a way in which I can uniquely identify a mobile phone user who has visited my website using the http header.Getting the mobile phone or IMEI of a user is an impossible thing , but is there any work around to identify a mobile phone user who visit my website or from the user agent details?
Any ideas?
I think not only php but combination with javascript will do the job. On page load you can get the screen width by using screen.width and then pass it to php file.
Hope it helps.
I want to scrape stats from an affiliate site with php.
I am pretty new to php but I know how to scrape data from a website, however affiliate sites need you to log in first.
How can I fill in the username and password fields and press the login button with php? Is it even possible to do this with php or do I need another programming language for it?
You'll have to analyze the whole login process by using the Developer Tools in Google Chrome or Firebug in Firefox to see what fields are posted (form data).
After that you'll need to develop a cURL script based on your research.
I'm building a product that involves clients adding their FB app data into my product's dashboard.
In this case each client would have to go to developers.facebook.com/apps and create an app first.
I would want to have a button which says "Create App" in my website that when clicked, would create the app instantly for the client.
So is it possible to create a FB App from my website (with script, not manually) ??
Thanks in advance,
Altin.
It was possible couple of years ago, and now it's been removed.
First of all, I’d think about the question, “does every client really need their own app?”
Maybe it’d also be possible to have all of the stuff you’re planning to do (no details on that) under one app, and have it decide on what data to show based on the fact which client’s Facebook page it gets added to (if it’ll run as page tab app), or by some additional parameter passed to it when calling it. You could f.e. example automatically redirect to a sub-folder on your webspace based on this criteria, that displays individual pages for that client.
If that’s not an option, then yes, your clients will have to set up the basic app themselves (and therefor they’ll need a verified account) – and afterwards tell app id and secret to you. Many of the “advanced” app settings can then be set by you via script – look at what properties are marked as “(Editable via API)” here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/application/
(Although some of the basic settings, like category, description, logo etc. will still have to be set by your client themselves. But other, more “technical” stuff, that the client maybe doesn’t know about and doesn’t even want to be bothered with, like canvas/page tab URLs etc. can be set by you. I’d say that’s as good a compromise as you can get for such a scenario.)
I'm pretty new to PHP and JSON/XML, but we're forging ahead.
Our project entails logging in to a webservice (which we also built) from a handheld device and then accessing our website from that device. The point is to only allow users who have logged in on the handheld device to access the webpage.
Now, I guess this doesn't only apply to handhelds, but here's the question:
We can send an HTTPRequest from the handheld device and use a PHP script to validate login info from a database, and then return either a 'success' or 'failure' JSON object. If the user succeeds in logging in, our webservice will be opened in a browser window.
The online application relies on Session Variables for authentication every step of the way. Is there some way we can send the HTTPRequest, receive authentication, and then somehow feed the very same page we are opening some data which it will parse into session variables?
It depends on the device. Some mobile phones (like flip phones for example) will most likely not have support for AJAX. Smartphones, on the other hand, will most likely have support for AJAX.
To make it compatible with all devices, your best bet is sticking with a standard login system that posts the variables to the same page or another page for validation. Otherwise, you will be making several different websites to work on various phones.
Hello I am looking to build a basic API and application/apps system on my social network something like Facebook or other sites have, my site is in php/mysql. Here are some questions.
1)
Basically what I want to do is give a user a API key and secret. After I have these how can I use them in my php app to authenticate a user request which would come from there server?
2)
I can basically build an API to send a request to my server with CURL and get the result back to the page in XML or JSON or whatever, the problem is when sending the request the user would have to know the user ID they want to send to lookup data against, this is fine for an API but I am wanting to have an Apps section where the user's app site would be using the API and would be loaded into my site in the app section with an iframe, the problem is, I need to find a good way to make it where a logged in user on my site can go to the app section and go to an app and there username should be available to that page loaded in the iframe. Facebook and myspace do this somehow and many other sites; I am lost how to get around this hurdle.
Any help on any of this is really appreciated, thank you
Update:
I just had an idea, if I require a cookie to be set when a user visit's my site, then they would have a cookie and it could hold there User ID, then my API script could look for that cookie to exist and grab it's value?
If you plane on using an IFRAME, then no, your API hosted on a separate website (the website inside the IFRAME) would not be able to grab the cookie. The cookie is only visible on the website that it was set for.
I have only used Facebook API with the FBML (not the IFRAME,) but all they do their is basically replace what's in the page with the info that the "tag" is calling. I'm not sure if there is a better way, but you could possibly call a page on the app's server (say the app is hosted at http://example.com/app/, and you called http://example.com/app/?id=28318&name=John%20Maguire,) and have your API code handle it and turn it into a variable?
Maybe you should look into the source code of the Facebook API client.