PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Practical PHP Mashups with Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo! Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Mashups
• Web 2.0 and Mashups
• Importance of Data
• User Communities
• How We Will Create Mashups
• More Mashups

• Chapter 2: Buy it on Amazon
• Project Overview
• XML-RPC
• XML-RPC Structure
• XML-RPC Request
• Arrays
• Struct
• XML-RPC Response
• Working with XML-RPC in PHP
• Making an XML-RPC Request
• Serializing Data with XML-RPC Encode Request
• Calling XML-RPC Using Sockets
• Processing an XML-RPC Response
• Creating an XML-RPC Parser Class
• Testing Our XML-RPC Parser Class
• Using PEAR to Handle XML-RPC
• REST
• Working with REST in PHP
• Making a REST Request
• A GET and POST Refresher
• Using Sockets to Initiate a REST Request
• Creating GET and POST Request Functions
• Making a REST Parser Class
• Testing Our REST Parser Class
• Processing a REST Response
• Basic Walkthrough with PHP and SAX
• Creating a SAX Parser Class
• Internet UPC Database API
• Amazon API
• A Tour of ECS
• Anatomy of an ECS REST Request
• Location of Service
• Mashing Up
• Product Lookups
• Handling Amazon's XML Responses
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Make Your Own Search Engine
• Project Overview
• SOAP
• Web Services Descriptor Language (WSDL) With XML Schema Data (XSD)
• Basic WSDL Structure
• definitions Element
• types Element
• message Element
• portType Element
• binding Element
• service Element
• The SOAP Message
• Envelope
• Header
• Body
• Fault
• PHP's SoapClient
• Creating Parameters
• Instantiate the SoapClient
• Instantiating in WSDL Mode
• Instantiating in Non-WSDL Mode
• Making the Call and Using SoapClient Methods
• Handling the SOAP Response
• Microsoft Live Search Web Service
• Using Search
• Yahoo! Search Web Service
• Using Web Search
• Mashing Up
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Your Own Video Jukebox
• Project Overview
• XSPF
• RSS
• YouTube Overview
• YouTube Developer API
• Last.fm Overview
• Audioscrobbler Web Services
• Parsing With PEAR
• Package Installation and Usage
• File_XSPF
• Services_YouTube
• XML_RSS
• Mashing Up
• Mashup Architecture
• Main Page
• Navigation Page
• Content Page
• Using the Mashup
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Traffic Incidents via SMS
• Project Overview
• Screen Scraping the PHP Way
• Parsing with DOM Functions
• Basic Element and Attribute Parsing
• Testing the Schema
• More About PHP's Implementation of the DOM
• 411Sync.com API
• Creating Your Mobile Search Keyword
• Name Your Keyword
• Format the Users will Use when They Use Your Search
• HTTP Location of the XML Data
• California Highway Patrol Incident Page
• Mashing Up
• The Incident Class
• The DOM Parser Class
• The CHP DOM Parser Class
• Creating the Feed Page
• Testing and Deploying
• Summary

• Chapter 6: London Tube Photos
• Project Overview
• Preliminary Planning
• Finding Tube Information
• Integrating Google Maps and Flickr Services
• Application Sequence
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• SPARQL
• Analyzing the Query Subject
• Anatomy of a SPARQL Query
• Writing SPARQL WHERE Clauses
• Basic Principles
• A Simple Query
• Querying for Types
• Ordering, Limiting, and Offsetting
• UNION and DISTINCT
• More SPARQL Features
• RDF API for PHP (RAP)
• XMLHttpRequest Object
• XMLHttpRequest Object Overview
• Using the Object
• Creating the Object
• Making the HTTP Request
• Creating and Using the Callback
• JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• JavaScript Objects Review
• JSON Structure
• Accessing JSON Properties
• Serializing the JSON Response
• Google Maps API
• Creating a Map
• Geocoding
• Markers
• Events
• InfoWindow Box
• Flickr Services API
• Executing a Search
• Interpreting Service Results
• Retrieving a Photo or a Photo's Page
• Mashing Up
• Building and Populating the Database
• Examining the File
• Creating Our Database Schema
• Building SPARQL Queries
• Stations Query
• Lines Query
• Lines to Stations Query
• Database Population Script
• The TubeSource Database Interface Class
• The Main User Interface
• Using Flickr Services with AJAX
• Creating an XMLHttpRequest Proxy
• Modifying the Main JavaScript
• Making the XMLHttpRequest
• Race Conditions
• Parsing the AJAX Response
• Summary

• Index