EnterpriseApplications@blogger.com: July 2006

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Google Code - APIs and more

The recent hype for mashup-applications has certainly fueled the run on the it's AJAX Maps API. But there are plenty other APIs, which google offers, also worth a look. What will be certainly interesting for me, will be the Blogger Atom API which you can use to search and modify your blogs on www.blogger.com.

Also Google now hosts your open source projects, similar to the sourceforge.net way.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 6:51 PM 0 comments

PHP Sockets Made Easy

There is a really nice tutorial up about creating and consuming sockets usiung PHP. At the time of this writing the first part of a 5 part tutorial series is published. I am going to following it, since I have recently written a generic Socket-Server and want to see things, I may improve.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 6:32 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter

Finally there seem to be a decent API for PHP developers to render HTML to PDF. I have just downloaded and unpacked domPdf on my WAMP and it worked right away.

Ok I had to disable php_domxml.dll first but after that it worked perfectly. Well almost, since there seems to be a problem with special characters. I guess I need to import some additional forms first before this works correctly.

Anyhow this API is a big step forward for PHP developers trying to find an easy and convenient way to create PDFs from what they know best: PHP and HTML.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 4:28 PM 0 comments


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