Twitter usage is growing at a phenomenal rate—in just one year, Twitter grew by 1,382%. In January 2009, it received 4.5 million unique U.S. visitors. Recently I wrote an article called “Creating a Twitter Widget with Ajax,” which explained how to bridge the gap between a local website and remote RSS feed using PHP and […]
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Creating a Twitter Widget with Ajax
It’s becoming increasingly popular for individuals and business that use Twitter to share their Twitter messages with the world. With “Follow me on Twitter” icons proudly displayed on many home pages, Twitter users are gaining exposure and ultimately making more connections. Some sites even display their latest twitters/tweets/tweats—choose your favorite terminology for “Twitter messages”—with a […]
Read moreLeveraging RSS
RSS may be a simple programming language, but you can use it to market and publish any information to unlimited sources across the web. Plus, it’s completely free. In this article, I’ll explain a couple different ways to leverage the power of RSS by both syndicating your own content and using others to add some […]
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In this column, I’m following up Robert Hoekman’s Designing the Obvious Clinic on RSS. In his column, Robert does something a little different than usual by measuring an entire technology against a few of the principles that are covered in his latest book, Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design. Robert always seems […]
Read moreRSS Aggregation with PHP and AJAX
An RSS aggregator is the perfect application to build with a standard AJAX engine, but cross-domain AJAX requests to RSS feeds are not possible. In this article, Kris Hadlock shows how to leverage a simple PHP function to bridge the gap between the AJAX engine and RSS content. RSS aggregators are not very hard to […]
Read moreHow To Create an RSS Aggregator with PHP and AJAX
Imagine using a simple HTML file to send a request to a server-side script, receive a custom XML file based on that request, and then display it to the user without ever refreshing the browser! Kris Hadlock explains how to use a combination of PHP and AJAX to create real-time data transfers in any application […]
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