APIs Tutorials
![Dynamically Create Charts Using MooTools MilkChart and Google Analytics]()
Dynamically Create Charts Using MooTools MilkChart and Google Analytics
The prospect of creating graphics charts with JavaScript is exciting. It's also the perfect use of JavaScript -- creating non-essential features with unobtrusive scripting. I've created a mix of PHP (the Analytics class), HTML, and MooTools JavaScript that will connect to Google Analytics...
![Retrieve, Cache, and Display Your FeedBurner Subscriber Count]()
Retrieve, Cache, and Display Your FeedBurner Subscriber Count
One way of significantly speeding up your website is by caching information you retrieve remotely from other websites or databases. Caching information is extremely simple and can save your users seconds of unnecessary waiting. Here's how I cache my FeedBurner follower count on...
![Create WordPress Page Templates with Custom Queries]()
Create WordPress Page Templates with Custom Queries
One of my main goals with the redesign was to make it easier for visitors to find the information that was most popular on my site. Not to my surprise, posts about MooTools, jQuery, and CSS were at the top of the list. What...
![Retrieve Google Analytics Visits and PageViews with PHP]()
Retrieve Google Analytics Visits and PageViews with PHP
Google Analytics is an outstanding website analytics tool that gives you way more information about your website than you probably need. Better to get more than you want than not enough, right? Anyways I check my website statistics more often than I should and...
![Create an “Add to TextMate” Widget Using MooTools]()
Create an “Add to TextMate” Widget Using MooTools
If a sword is a soldier's best friend, the best friend of a programmer is a his text editor. TextMate has been my text editor of choice and a big reason for that is the ability to add snippets for quick use later. Since...
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![Test Twitter Friendships with PHP]()
Test Twitter Friendships with PHP
Another awesome functionality provided by Twitter is the ability to test friendships between two people. I mean testing if two people follow each other, not if one spams the world with crap tweets. Just as with every other Twitter API call, executing this test...
![Retrieve Your Gmail Emails Using PHP and IMAP]()
Retrieve Your Gmail Emails Using PHP and IMAP
Grabbing emails from your Gmail account using PHP is probably easier than you think. Armed with PHP and its IMAP extension, you can retrieve emails from your Gmail account in no time! Just for fun, I'll be using the MooTools Fx.Accordion plugin...
![Twitter Direct Messaging Remotely Using cURL]()
Twitter Direct Messaging Remotely Using cURL
Twitter's direct messaging functionality is great. While simple tweeting communicates "just a clever quip," direct messaging communicates "listen here b*tch, this is important enough that you need to get this message NOW via text message." Twitter's API allows you direct message remotely so now...
![Create a Basic Web Service Using PHP, MySQL, XML, and JSON]()
Create a Basic Web Service Using PHP, MySQL, XML, and JSON
Web services are taking over the world. I credit Twitter's epic rise to the availability of a simple but rich API. Why not use the same model for your own sites? Here's how to create a basic web service that provides an XML...
![Represent Your Repositories Using the GitHub Badge!]()
Represent Your Repositories Using the GitHub Badge!
Update: The badge includes jQuery which breaks any MooTools on your page. Be aware before including...as I wasn't. Update 2: MooTool's own Thomas Aylott has an awesome MooTools version! You can grab it at: http://github.com/subtleGradient/mootools-github-badge/tree/master! GitHub users are generally proud of their...
