Category: JSON
03/28/2018
#DeleteFacebook : How to poison, obfuscate and purge your facebook data before deleting your account
* Update : Thank you Vice for writing an article about my script! Unfortunately it seems as though facebook is actually blocking the ability for anyone to share the article. I wonder why? * Update 2 : Facebook is now allowing the Vice article to be shared, only after about 24 hours of blocking the […]
03/14/2017
How to use PHP as a web service to backup MySQL over HTTPS to a remote destination
Hello! Following with the theme of our last post, we thought it might be useful to demonstrate how to create a pure PHP based web service to backup your MySQL database to a remote destination (also with PHP) over a secure HTTPS connection. High level, all we will be doing is iterating over all the […]
12/19/2016
How to create a custom gallery meta field for posts in WordPress
Hello! If you read our last post on us releasing a new WordPress Plugin for Portfolio Galleries, you would have seen us touch a bit on creating custom fields / meta boxes for your post type. One of the bigger challenges when creating the Portfolio Grid plugin was implementing the administrative jQuery to manipulate the […]
04/26/2016
How to create a heatmap layer on Google Maps using JQuery and PHP
Hello! There was a scenario not too long ago where we were required to create a heatmap layer on top of a Google map to plot latitude/longitude coordinates. I thought I’d share the process through which we pull the coordinate data from a MySQL database and plot it into the google map as a heatmap […]
08/13/2015
Use PHP to send APNS iOS and GCM Android push notifications
Hello! Through our own internal projects it has become a requirement in the past to implement a system that integrates with a mobile application. Specifically we have implemented systems that send out push notifications to iOS and Android based devices. The conditions through which we would be sending the notifications are somewhat irrelevant, though it […]
05/01/2015
Ajax Long Polling to your RESTful API
Hello! Whether your developing a mobile or web based application, keeping on top of constantly changing data is a challenge on its own. Sometimes its necessary to make repeated calls to your API to pull updates at regular intervals. We wrote a previous blog post describing how to use Ajax to pull JSON data via […]
04/06/2015
Use PHP to set up a RESTful API with simple authentication
Hello! It is sometimes necessary to bridge different web applications together in order to transmit or receive information and process it. One scenario could be a mobile application that connects to a web service to pull or push data in order to update the app or provide “real time” services with centralized data. One of […]
