PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Practical PHP Mashups with Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!: Create practical mashups in PHP grabbing ... MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, and 411Sync.com

300 Pages·2007·10.86 MB·English

by  Shu-Wai Chow

PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects
Create practical mashups in PHP, grabbing and
mixing data from Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon,
YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, and
411Sync.com
Shu-Wai Chow
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects
Create practical mashups in PHP, grabbing and mixing data from
Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!,
Last.fm, and 411Sync.com
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First published: September, 2007
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Credits
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Shu-Wai Chow Patricia Weir
Reviewer Project Coordinator
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About the Author
Shu-Wai Chow has worked in computer programming and information
technology for the past eight years. He started his career in Sacramento, California,
spending four years as the webmaster for Educaid, a First Union Company, and
another four years at Vision Service Plan as an application developer. Through the
years, he has become proficient in Java, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, LDAP, XSLT,
and XSL-FO. Shu has also been the volunteer webmaster and a feline adoption
counselor for several animal welfare organizations in Sacramento.
He is currently a software engineer at Antenna Software in Jersey City, New Jersey,
and is finishing his studies in Economics at Rutgers, the State University of
New Jersey.
Born in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, Shu did most of his alleged
growing up in Palo Alto, California. He lives on the Jersey Shore with seven very
demanding cats, four birds that are too smart for their own good, a tail-less bearded
dragon, a betta who needs her tank cleaned, a dermestid beetle colony, a cherished
Fender Stratocaster, and a beloved, saint-like fiancé.
I received a lot of help from many different people and companies
on this book.

First and foremost, thank you to the people at Packt Publishing,
especially Doug Paterson, Nikhil Bangera, Adil Rizwan, and
Abhijeet Deobhakta, for a professional working experience, giving
me this opportunity, and once again, for their faith in me (which I
still don’t completely understand).

Thank you, Stoyan Stefanov, for your great review comments. Your
insight and suggestions really improved this book’s content and
personally pushed me further.
Each chapter deserves some special attention.

Chapter 2: Thank you to the folks at the UPC Internet Database and
Amazon, Inc. for their permission. Thanks especially to everyone at
UPC Internet Database for answering my questions.

Chapter 3: Thank you to Yahoo! and Microsoft for their permission,
and the prompt service and aassssiissttaannccee ffrroomm tthheeiirr lleeggaall ddeeppaarrttmmeennttss..
Special thanks are given to Data Access Corporation and Vincent
Oorsprong for their helpful and educational SOAP services. Data
Access Worldwide (www.dataccess.com) delivers advanced
products and services to help customers build great applications and
get more value from their data.

Chapter 4: Thanks to the people at YouTube and Last.fm for their
permission. Special thanks go to Last.fm for their interest in my
project.

Chapter 5: Thank you to 411Sync and the California Highway Patrol
for their assistance. A big thank you goes to MMaanniisshh LLaacchhwwaannii ooff
411Sync, who is probably the most patient person in the world.

Chapter 6: Thank you to Google, Flickr, and Jo Walsh for permission
to be included. A big thanks to Jo Walsh for her help and insight.
Special thanks to the people at Google, whose enthusiasm made me
think that this book wasn’t such a nutty idea.

I neglected to thank Ed Hansen and Keith Easterbrook in the last
book. They were the ones that forced us to use WebSphere Application
Developer. Without WSAD, I never would have used Eclipse, and I
never would have used PHPEclipse, which means that I never would
have written the first book, and without the first book, there would
not be this second book. So, thank you, gentlemen, and I apologize
for the oversight.

Thank you to Kaya’s Kitchen of Belmar, New Jersey for making
the best vegetarian cuisine in the whole wide world. If you ever
find yourself on the Jersey Shore, you absolutely must visit this
restaurant.

Finally, all hail the Palo Alto Duck Pond, Hobee’s on El Camino and
Arastradero, Dodger Stadium, and the Davis Greenbelt.
About the Reviewer
Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer, Zend Certified Engineer, book author
and contributor to the international PHP community. His personal blog is at
http://www.phpied.com.

Once upon a time, a diviner told me that I would meet an angel on
Earth in the month of February. This book is dedicated to that
February angel and love of my life, Anneliese Strunk.
You have brought more happiness, inspiration,
and joy to my life than I could ever have imagined.