i am trying to find a web service that allows a user to send a company name (or better still will return a list of all company names, thus allowing the user to select one) and then get the share price, this will then feed in to another api - yahoo currency converter to work out the price of the share
the issue i am having is that i cannot find a web service to get share info, google registration for theres does not seem to be working and as such i dont no what to do
i am to be coding this in php
if anyone could point me to a good web service i would appreciate it
thanks
edit : i did find this but am unsure if it is appropriate http://www.xignite.com/xGlobalQuotes.asmx?WSDL
How about:
http://www.sharepricewebservice.co.uk/
They get their data from Yahoo Finance, so I'm sure Yahoo would have an API somewhere. This page may help: http://developer.yahoo.com/finance/
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we have a android project that needs the following objectives:
*we also have a web application for this app that needs to communicate with the same database as the android application
what I have done so far:
a view of a map with a pinpoint on my current Location
mysql db containing information (including latitude and longtitude position)
registration and login
Real Time Database Objectives:
state that people are online or offline(updating a database).
Google Map Objectives:
When I press a button, the map will show other users who are online within a given radius so basically I need to view online people who are near me
Send a message to them [2 ways]
2.1 I send them a message by clicking their icon
2.2 I send everyone[online people within the radius] the message
Questions:
I am currently using php mysql for login/register. Can I use this for a real time database or is there any other way?
is Firebase somehow similar to a hosting site?
if there are other needed information needed, pls inform me, I may not have included information that could help with my questions :)
ill update my question too if I have more questions.
thank you.
I think for your requirements its is more appropriate to use Firebase as it fulfills all your expectations and provides additional features.
There is a web site
http://www.pringit.com
i want to receive text messages from mobile phones using php, like this web site.
the user makes his account at this web site and registers his mobile fone number there then if admin or any other person who has made groups there (at the web site) he can send a message from his mobile to the web site server then from that server the message is broad casted or multi casted or uni casted according to the sender's wish, my question is that i want to do a work like this, now i want some guidance, about this, i want to know that is that task is done by using some sort of api like tropo or urbanairship etc?, if that is then i will go for api, or there is another way to do this, plz. guide me how to do this, or how to go about this thanx an Regards Saad
You must use any service providers API to send sms. You can search for the best service provider in your area.
If you purchase some credits ,most of the case they will have give the integration guide or code
You can select XML or json API for this . You will have to do the rest of code likek user authentication,grouping etc
http://www.twilio.com/ is one of them
I see a lot of sites showing this, but on Groupon in particular for a merchant, they will show Reviews from CitySearch, Yelp (I think), TripAdviser, Open Table, Frommers, etc.
Do all these sites provide API's? I can't find them or would Groupon be scraping the sites?
Any ideas how to get this same type of data?
Thanks!
Basically all the sites you've listed have API's to allow for various bits of information to be extracted, for example Trip Advisors can be found here: http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/help/what_is_an_api
I suggest you give Needlebase a try. A free account gives the public access to your scrapped data, but its a great tool.
http://needlebase.com
How to use it/Example:
http://www.needlebase.com/videos
Note: Get permission from the site before hand/ check the laws in your country regarding scraping.
I want to add contact fetch (gmail,AOL,hotmail,yahoo) script in my social networking site using zend-framework.
Any one can tell me how to do this ?
imo, you would have to log in to the account, get the contact book, scrape the info, show the user the contacts and let him confirm the ones he wants to add, you may also have to have a look at the google api to achieve this.
Still, this is just how i would give it a go. :)
I need to add an invite users functionality to my social networking application so users can invite contacts from their hotmail or yahoo accounts. How do I do this and are there any free open source libraries that do this?
Depending on the service you wish to get the contact information from they might already provide a published API for you.
For example, Yahoo has a contact list API you could use: http://developer.yahoo.com/social/rest_api_guide/contact_api.html
Google also has one: http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/
And so does Windows Live: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463974.aspx
If you need something to work with a service without an API then you might have to ask that user for his username and password, use it temporarily to log into his account, download the contact information and then discard the login details. There are obvious privacy and security issues with this approach, however. Nevertheless, it is used quite frequently by many social networking sites.
The same approach can also be used to retrieve buddy information from instant messaging services. You log in (perhaps using an open source IM API) and get their buddy list and contact details.
Just in case anyone was interested - I would like to share this neat piece of code I found off the web. Its free and very easy to setup and integrate. http://openinviter.com is php based and you can extract email contacts from just about any address book there is.
You just need to have curl set up for this.