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Building With the Twitter API: Creating Friends to Follow

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn to add followers to users' accounts with their authorization. This episode also switches to a simpler PHP-based API library.

Jeff Reifman • 20 Mar 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Designing a RESTful API

Tutorial • Intermediate

In order to begin mobile app development, I needed to design and code the API for Meeting Planner. Learn how it's done and how I did it in PHP with Yii.

Jeff Reifman • 15 Mar 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Running Multiple Domains

Tutorial • Intermediate

To create a more friendly, social branding option, I launched Simple Planner on the Meeting Planner codebase. Learn how to do this in the Yii Framework.

Jeff Reifman • 14 Mar 2017
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: ActiveRecord

Tutorial • Intermediate

Improve the structure efficiency and security of your database programming. Learn to apply active record patterns with your database programming in Yii2.

Jeff Reifman • 6 Mar 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Error Logging

Tutorial • Intermediate

Finding production errors can be difficult without proper error handling or a cloud-based logging service. I tried two. Follow along and learn how logging...

Jeff Reifman • 1 Mar 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Importing With the Google Contacts API

Tutorial • Intermediate

To make scheduling easier, I wanted people to be able to select from their Google contacts. Learn how I used the Google APIs to import them.

Jeff Reifman • 22 Feb 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Completing Group Scheduling

Tutorial • Intermediate

Supporting group scheduling has always been a major goal in Meeting Planner. I've planned for it since nearly the beginning. Follow along as I begin to add...

Jeff Reifman • 21 Feb 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Meetings With Multiple Participants

Tutorial • Intermediate

Supporting group scheduling has always been a major goal in Meeting Planner. I've planned for it since nearly the beginning. Follow along as I begin to add...

Jeff Reifman • 14 Feb 2017
Yii

Building Your Startup: Requesting Scheduling Changes

Tutorial • Intermediate

Often we need to change a meeting after it's been scheduled. Solving this requires both social engineering and lots of code. Follow along to see how I built it.

Jeff Reifman • 7 Feb 2017
Yii

Using the New York Times API to Scrape Metadata

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to reach behind the paywall and gather article metadata from The New York Times in our follow-up to web scraping with PHP.

Jeff Reifman • 6 Feb 2017
Yii

How to Scrape Web Pages for Metadata

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to make it simple for users to add links to your website by leveraging PHP to scrape metatags such as title and description from URLs.

Jeff Reifman • 1 Feb 2017
Bootstrap

Building Your Startup: Advanced Scheduling Commands

Tutorial • Intermediate

There are lots of critical scheduling features to build and then fit into a small responsive user interface. Learn how I lean on Bootstrap to integrate them...

Jeff Reifman • 30 Jan 2017