Posts Tagged ‘API’

Custom Icons with the Google Maps API V3

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Putting a map on your website is pretty easy. The easiest way is to go to Google Maps and find the location you want, click embed, then copy and paste the code onto your site. This creates an iFrame on your site, which isn’t bad, but isn’t the most flexible either.

If you are feeling brave, you can put a map on your website with the API that Google provides. It’s all javascript code that works on every modern browser. The API is extremely well documented, so I won’t get down to the complete process of setting up a map, because this blog post is about using custom icons for your markers.

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Building your first Twitter application with PHP

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I’ve written before about how great it is to work with a service that has a great API. Twitter was one of the tools that I talked about in that post and today I’m going to show you the basics of working with their API.

PHP is a great language for web applications, and it’s available with just about any web host. If you aren’t familiar with how PHP works, this tutorial will probably be a poor place to start. Today we are going to talk about how to work with the Twitter API and PHP, and you’ll need to know a few things about how PHP works to keep up. For a good refresher course on PHP, click here.

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The power of a great API

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

tweettweetWe developers love a good API. If you aren’t sure what an API is, be sure to check out this lovely page on wikipedia about them. API stands for application programming interface, and it allows developers like us to tie our code to different services that are already built.

This means that we can build programs that interact with other platforms so that they can start to do some amazing things. Some of our favorite APIs are the Google Maps API, which lets us plot and map virtually any data to points on a map, and the Twitter API, which lets us control every aspect of a Twitter account. In this blog post I’ll give you a quick example of working with the Twitter API, to show you just how easy it is to work with.

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