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Amazon Advertising API BrowseNodes
Amazon uses a hierarchy of nodes to organize its various items. Each node represents a collection of items, such as Harry Potter books, not the items themselves. Browse node IDs are positive integers...
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Taking website screenshots using PhantomJS
In one of my previous posts we saw how we could take webshots of web pages using ‘wkhtmltoimage‘ toolkit. Now we have something more flexible with PhantomJS. PhantomJS is what we call a headless WebKit...
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Using PhantomJS to headlessly analyze web pages
One of this year’s most interesting open source projects has been PhantomJS – a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS...
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Email is one of the common input fields in any web form. Many sites use two email fields to make sure that the user has entered correct email ids. This is a common idiom in web design, and it is...
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In-place editing with Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI
X-editable is a library which allows you to create editable elements on your page. It can be used with bootstrap, jquery-ui, jquery and jQuery and includes both popup and inline modes. This library is...
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Easy PHP debugging with Kint
My standard debugging tool when using PHP is xdebug. Pairing xdebug with Komodo gives me a very productive environment for building PHP applications. However, testing an application code on a hosted...
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Period: Time range API for php
Date/time programming is one of the tricky aspects of software development. Although inherently not complex in itself, coding date/time algorithms can be a subtle source of bugs. Especially in web...
View ArticleExtracting media information from online videos
With a variety of video sources available online it can be useful if one can get additional information regarding a particular video, this can be helpful for creating embedding code or customizing a...
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9 cool jQuery special effect plugins
Need to make that webpage splashy or add some visuals to a seemingly monotonous page; below are some jQuery effects plugins that will help you add some visuals to your site. TurnJS: Make a flip book...
View ArticleAdding WordPress like shortcodes to your web applications
One of the cool features of WordPress is its shortcode feature. There may be times one wished to add this capability to your PHP web applications. Recently I found one such library which allows you to...
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