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Introduction to the Instagram API

Tutorial • Intermediate

More than 26% of all online adults use Instagram to post intriguing real-time imagery from around the world, making it an ideal platform for web developers...

Jeff Reifman • 25 Jul 2022
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How to Install Yii on Windows or a Mac

Tutorial • Beginner

Yii is one of the best PHP Frameworks. Our Envato Tuts+ building a PHP startup series is built on it. Learn how to install Yii on Windows or macOS and build...

Jeff Reifman • 5 Jun 2017
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Building Your Startup: Approaching Major Feature Enhancements

Tutorial • Intermediate

Adding activity balloting to the meeting planning feature required extensive changes to the application. Learn how to think about successfully adding major...

Jeff Reifman • 29 May 2017
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Programming With Yii: Generating Documentation

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn to use Yii2's automated documentation generator, apidoc, as I build the API documentation for my startup Meeting Planner application.

Jeff Reifman • 26 May 2017
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Building Your Startup: Securing an API

Tutorial • Intermediate

Building and customizing REST APIs is simple, but securing the usage of your secret application keys and verifying the authenticity of requests requires...

Jeff Reifman • 22 May 2017
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Programming With Yii2: Building Community With Voting, Comments, and Sharing

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to build your own social platform with Yii integrating plugins to support Disqus comments, up and down voting, and Twitter and Facebook sharing.

Jeff Reifman • 15 May 2017
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Building Your Startup: Using Routes for Schedule With Me

Tutorial • Intermediate

Meeting Planner users can now offer a custom URL to share with colleagues to facilitate scheduling meetings with them. Learn how to customize Yii routing to...

Jeff Reifman • 1 May 2017
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Using the Twitter API to Tweet Repetitive Content

Tutorial • Intermediate

Twitter's API has various undocumented restrictions that sometimes block attempts to automate a fun bot or a serious marketing effort. Learn ways to succeed...

Jeff Reifman • 28 Apr 2017
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Building Your Startup: Leveraging Bootstrap, Ajax, and jQuery

Tutorial • Intermediate

As I found time to polish Meeting Planner more deeply, I relied on CSS and JavaScript to add more interactive features such as easily scheduling with...

Jeff Reifman • 24 Apr 2017
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How to Handle Errors & Exceptions in the Yii Framework

Tutorial • Intermediate

Reacting and responding to errors is critical for a positive user experience and iterative product enhancement. Never easy in PHP, but better in Yii. Learn...

Jeff Reifman • 18 Apr 2017
Yii

Building With the Twitter API: Analyzing Your Followers

Tutorial • Intermediate

Twitter social engagement is often weak. Learn how to investigate how many of your followers are real people vs. bots and how many are likely to ever see...

Jeff Reifman • 10 Apr 2017
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Programming With Yii2: Building a RESTful API

Tutorial • Intermediate

The Yii Framework provides straightforward support for implementing APIs, essential to making your application data available to other apps and services.

Jeff Reifman • 6 Apr 2017

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