Published February 10, 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

This tutorial shows you how to use the little known Google Static Maps feature to outline a specific boundary such a zip code or a city. It requires that you have your own Google Maps API. Above is the output image generated by the code below.
This is the PHP code that is needed. The tricky [...]

Published August 21, 2008 • 0 Comments • 1 Delicious Bookmarks

When releasing the first version of my WP-SocialCount Wordpress plugin a while back, an interested visitor asked if I would be so kind as to include a way to reshape the BlogCatalog widget with the next release of the plugin. I had every intention of doing that until I saw just how much would have [...]

Published July 18, 2008 • 1 Comment • 11 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: *dans

The Flickr API is one of the most widely used APIs out there. In this article I will show you how to build your own simple online application using PHP and the Flickr API.
The sample online application we build today will be one that takes a Flickr image URL (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dans180/854998249/), then outputs [...]