Category Archives: PHP

PHP Database Based Session Handling

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

Due to a move to a multi-server environment at work to cope with peak time performance I was asked to implement a replacement to PHP’s standard session handling so that sessions would work in this new environment. In PHP 5.4 … Continue reading →

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PHP cURL Wrapper

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

I’ve put up a gist of a simple PHP cURL wrapper which simplifies basic content fetching with cURL. The class throws standard Exceptions in case of no content being returned or incorrect settings being passed as arguments. Setup:

$curl = new glowingminds\Curl('http://www.example.com/page.html');
$result = $curl->fetch();

//or

$curl = new glowingminds\Curl();
$curl->setAddress('http://www.example.com/page.html');
$result = $curl->fetch();

$curl = new glowingminds\Curl('http://www.example.com/page.html');

$result = $curl->fetch();

//or

$curl = new glowingminds\Curl();

$curl->setAddress('http://www.example.com/page.html');

$result = $curl->fetch();

Simple setters for … Continue reading →

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Arrays In PHP $_POST / $_GET Values

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

HTTP requests can of course be spoofed, just because your form says data should be transferred using GET or POST with specified names for element keys, this does not mean someone can’t alter the form before submission or even just use a … Continue reading →

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PHP Error Handling – Part Two, Standard Error Handling

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

This is a short post continuing the topic of errors in PHP, following on from error types & exceptions and leading to custom error handling, this post is a quick summary of the standard error reporting provided by PHP. In … Continue reading →

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Zend PHP 5.3 Certification

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

As of last week I am officially a Zend Certified Engineer (proof) and thought I should post something on preparing for the exam and share some useful resources for others who may be working towards the 5.3 certification. The “Zend … Continue reading →

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PHP Error Handling – Part One, Error Types & Exceptions

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

As a study aid whilst working towards Zend Certification and also due to a post on the topic being requested by a colleague (Barry) and after a rant by me after a talk at PHP UK 2012, here is the … Continue reading →

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Facebook Likes, Twitter Follows and Feedburner Count in PHP with cURL/SimpleXML (Deluxe)

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

So API’s from common providers are unreliable… below is the same code as my previous post but with two layers (1h + 24h) of Alternative PHP Cache (APC) caching and exception handling for the SimpleXML. Worth noting that the code … Continue reading →

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Facebook Likes, Twitter Follows and Feedburner Count in PHP with cURL/SimpleXML

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Ingmar Boddington

Basic (no error handling) copy and paste code for getting Facebook Likes, Twitter Follows and a Feedburner Subscription count using PHP (with cURL):

//Settings
$facebookPageId = 'yourFacebookPageId';
$twitterHandle = 'yourTwitterHandle';
$feedburnerURI = 'yourFeedBurnerURI';

//Facebook Likes
$curl = curl_init('http://graph.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&amp;query=SELECT%20fan_count%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20page_id='.$facebookPageId);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$results = curl_exec($curl);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($results);
$facebookLikesCount = $xml->page->fan_count;
curl_close($curl);
$xml = NULL;
unset($results);

//Twitter Follows
$curl = curl_init('https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name='.$twitterHandle.'&amp;include_entities=true');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$results = curl_exec($curl);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($results);
$twitterFollowerCount = $xml->friends_count;
curl_close($curl);
$xml = NULL;
unset($results);

//Feedburner Subscribers
$curl = curl_init('https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri='.$feedburnerURI);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$results = curl_exec($curl);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($results);
$feedburnerSubscriberCount = $xml->feed->entry->attributes()->circulation;
curl_close($curl);
$xml = NULL;
unset($results);

//Output
echo '<p>Facebook like count: '.$facebookLikesCount.'</p>';
echo '<p>Twitter follower count: '.$twitterFollowerCount.'</p>';
echo '<p>Feedburner subscriber count: '.$feedburnerSubscriberCount.'</p>';

//Settings

$facebookPageId = 'yourFacebookPageId';

$twitterHandle = 'yourTwitterHandle';

$feedburnerURI = 'yourFeedBurnerURI';

//Facebook Likes

$curl = curl_init('http://graph.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&query=SELECT%20fan_count%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20page_id='.$facebookPageId);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$results = curl_exec($curl);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($results);

$facebookLikesCount = $xml->page->fan_count;

curl_close($curl);

$xml = NULL;

unset($results);

//Twitter Follows

$curl = curl_init('https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name='.$twitterHandle.'&include_entities=true');

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$results = curl_exec($curl);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($results);

$twitterFollowerCount = $xml->friends_count;

curl_close($curl);

$xml = NULL;

unset($results);

//Feedburner Subscribers

$curl = curl_init('https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri='.$feedburnerURI);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$results = curl_exec($curl);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($results);

$feedburnerSubscriberCount = $xml->feed->entry->attributes()->circulation;

curl_close($curl);

$xml = NULL;

unset($results);

//Output

echo 'Facebook like count: '.$facebookLikesCount.'';

echo 'Twitter follower count: '.$twitterFollowerCount.'';

echo 'Feedburner subscriber count: '.$feedburnerSubscriberCount.'';

Note: PHP must be compiled with cURL: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/curl.installation.php Note: For the Feedburner API request to work you … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: PHP

PHP Database Based Session Handling

PHP cURL Wrapper

Arrays In PHP $_POST / $_GET Values

PHP Error Handling – Part Two, Standard Error Handling

Zend PHP 5.3 Certification

PHP Error Handling – Part One, Error Types & Exceptions

Facebook Likes, Twitter Follows and Feedburner Count in PHP with cURL/SimpleXML (Deluxe)

Facebook Likes, Twitter Follows and Feedburner Count in PHP with cURL/SimpleXML

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