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Twitter provides an API so Web developers can enable their users to access the various features that the Twitter site provides. In this article, learn the basics of using the Twitter REST API. Get started with a simple examples, then build your Twitter API skills. The ability to pull specific information from the Twitter Stream is endless.

The new QueryPath library, a PHP cousin of the jQuery JavaScript library, offers an efficient API for working with XML, HTML, and HTTP. In this article, Walk through a simple example and build a small script that workes with the Web services API of the popular Twitter microblogging service, to execute a specific search on Twitter's server and print the results as HTML. Such a tool can be added to an existing Web site to show recent Twitter activity on a topic of interest.

This tutorial shows how you can use Java, and PHP to quickly and easily work with CICS programs and expose them on the Web. If you are a PHP developer, find out how you can use your PHP skills to interact with enterprise assets in CICS; if you are a CICS developer, see how PHP provides a simple and agile way to manipulate your existing resources.

For some, Ajax is still a mystery. It's something that the "cool kids" and "bad boys" of Web development do, and they've never had the time, patience, or skill to take it on. If you're one of these PHP developers, never fear: By the time you're done reading this article, you'll know enough to become a real Ajax pro. This article shows how to use jQuery to easily add Ajax functionality to any PHP Web application. When you're done, you should have a pretty good grounding in not only some jQuery basics but also in the fundamentals of Ajax.

These 5 articles on PHP frameworks will get you quickly familiar with Zend, symfony, and CakePHP. This series is designed for PHP developers who want to start using a PHP framework, but have not examined the available frameworks in detail. You will examine their similarities and differences while building and extending a sample application. using Ajax and by integrating external tasks.

WordPress is a Web publishing platform written in PHP, using MySQL for storage. It provides extensibility by building plug-ins that add filters and actions. The Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) V2.0 project allows you to use Eclipse to build PHP applications. Learn how to extend WordPress by using PDT to build plug-ins that demonstrates the adding of a filter and another example for adding an action.

This article explains the underpinnings of Twitter - specifically, what the REST API exposes, and shows PHP developers how to use public libraries to extract status from their own and their friends' timelines and convert it to other formats, most notably RSS. After reading this, you will have the skills to build your own Twitter and PHP applications and utilities.

Learn how to use PHP to add a Twitter-like interface to your applications. Specifically, we show you how to allow users to add posts, disseminate those posts to other users who want to receive them, and allow users to choose to follow the posts of other users. With any luck, you can take what you learned here, add it to your application, and tailor it to your needs.

PHP V5.3 has numerous new features such as namespaces, closures, object handling, object-oriented programming, and Phar. There are also some backward-compatibility issues you should be aware of with PHP v5.2. This article provides clear guidance for migrating your Web application to work with PHP V5.3. and for building more powerful and secure PHP apps.

PHP has been around for quite a few years. It's commonly used as a server-side scripting language to develop Web-based applications fairly quickly and with good results. This article provided you with an introduction to writing Ajax-based front-end code with back-end PHP scripts faster than if you write all of the code yourself.

By using these 5 established PHP patterns, you benefit from common design constructs that allow you and others to avoid the hard lessons of design ideas that don't work out. They also makes your code more readable and maintainable.

You'll appreciate this article's fully functional PHP code snippets, demonstrating the use of PHP-based server-side functions to develop a customizable RSS feed aggregator. In addition, you'll reap instant benefits from using the fully functional RSS feed aggregator code, which you can download from this article.

One cool feature of del.icio.us is the ability to access your bookmark list through a REST-based API, and integrate this list into your own XML-aware application. The del.icio.us service lets users collect and share bookmarks online. Manipulate these bookmarks with PEAR's Services_Delicious package that interfaces with the REST API of del.icio.us and build customized PHP applications.

Its time for PHP developers to leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development. In Part 1, you create the XForms library using PHP, allowing each function to take in parameters and output XForm elements. Part 2, you will In enhance the PHP XForms library to include some error checking and convenience functions to help make using the library more manageable, and lastly you'll demo the library by creating a proof of concept XForm. From this you will have a fairly robust PHP XForms library that you can use and continue to develop and extend.