This is a quick and dirty method. It assumes a couple of things. You’ve already created your ‘app’ on twitter. You’ve already gotten your personal OAuth tokens from twitter. First you need to setup your tokens; $token = new Zend_Oauth_Token_Access(); $token->setToken(“YOUR_PERSONAL_TOKEN”) ->setTokenSecret(“YOUR_PERSONAL_SECRET”); Second, you need to setup the Zend_Service_Twitter using your access token as [...]
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Typecasting with double-not (!!) vs. (bool)
I was asked a strange question today. “What’s return !! $row; do?” And I had never really been witness to the syntax of the double-not ‘!!’ because really, to me, it’s a bit strange and contradictory for the coding styles I’m used to. So I looked it up a bit more to see if it [...]
Dictionary APIs are Fun.
As part of my Hangman! application on Facebook, I plan on adding word definitions. Like any good word app, it should tell you what the word means. I’m not a big fan of sending off users to other sites when I don’t have to, so I looked into some dictionary APIs. These APIs are hard [...]
ZF Tip: Don’t use ‘index’ as a module name.
I’ve been using Zend Framework for a while and when I do my own sites things always work as expected. But a couple of times in the past I’ve had the honor of working on other sites with other people that have lead me to a few ‘wtf?’ issues. The most recent one was as [...]
All I Need is REST, Vimeo, Flickr, Zend and More
Here’s my skeleton for my magical REST interface. It’s still missing a lot of method calls for Flickr and Vimeo, but the guts are there and the remaining methods will be done in priority when I need them. Right now it supports automatic caching and logging via simple options. At some point I’ll probably put [...]

