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I’m exploring the Mashape API Platform, trying to break things down and understand everything in more detail. Blogging about a topic does this for me.

So let’s start with deploying an API with Mashape.

With the Mashape PHP Library you can deploy an API on your infrastructure. You download the library from Github, deploy on your server, and then add the methods for your API by extending the Mashape PHP component class.

If you already have an API that returns JSON responses, you can just register it as a Mashape API for distribution, without deploying the Mashape PHP Library.

If you’ve deployed your API without the Mashape PHP Library you will need to accomplish one more step. You will need to implement the Mashape Connector by adding one line of code to your API, which is required to connect your API to the Mashape Platform and handle user authorization, billing, and rate-llimiting.

Whichever way you deploy your API, you can now distribute it using Mashape. The first step for distributing an API is to create an XML file that describes what the API does. This XML file gets deployed on your server and needs to be updated as your API evolves.

Once your API is deployed and published to Mashape, the platform distributes your API to the Mashape Marketplace and provides a detail page with title, description, documentation, test console and PHP, Python, Ruby, Java and Objective C client libraries.

Mashape then provides a way for developers to sign-up and start hacking on any API in the Mashape Marketplace with a single developer account and key. There are also social features allowing users to follow and contact other users.

All APIs that are published using Mashape will connect and communicate with Mashape through an API Proxy. This is the proxy that handles the authorization of users, implementation of billing, rate limiting and other functions described above.

Right now the proxy is primarily available via the Mashape platform, but you can also find an open-source version of the Mashape API proxy on Github. The API Proxy is intended to be downloaded and installed on your servers, which will increase the performance and security of your API.

In addition to being able to register your API and use the Mashape API Proxy in the cloud, you can download and install on-premise. Since it is open-source, you could also fork the code and potentially add in your own modifications to the API proxy, which is written in JavaScript and runs on the latest version of node.js

I’m playing around with deploying one small and one large data-set as two separate APIs using the Mashape PHP Library, so I can get more familiar with how the platform works. I just wanted to work through some thoughts about what they provide here on the blog. More to come on Mashape…

"On this site you will find a RESTful interface (written in PHP) to a database (a MySQL database, but that's not important). Below you will find a interactive tutorial that will get you accessing, adding and deleting rows from our database via our Javascript powered REST browser."

"codepad is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. Paste your code below, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email."

"FRAPI is a framework that lets you create a RESTful API for your web application. It plugs straight into your database layer, and does not impact on your application layer."

"With HipHop we've reduced the CPU usage on our Web servers on average by about fifty percent, depending on the page. Less CPU means fewer servers, which means less overhead. This project has had a tremendous impact on Facebook. We feel the Web at large can benefit from HipHop, so we are releasing it as open source this evening in hope that it brings a new focus toward scaling large complex websites with PHP. HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP's runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations."

"automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns. " Has some regex support too.

Nice mobile web Twitter client. Oh, and open source (PHP)

a web-based php ide. collaboration coming soon

"A short photo id is a base58 conversion of the photo id. Base58 is like base62 [0-9a-zA-Z] with some characters removed to make it less confusing when printed. (namely 0, O, I, and l)."

"a free, lightweight PHP script that automatically displays the images placed in a given directory, no database needed. It can be used as a blog or gallery—and anything in between. It’s configurable, plugin-ready, and template-based, but it’s also designed for people who don’t know how or don’t have time to manage their sites manually. The tagline is “See & snap. Drag & drop.” It’s a photoblog for the rest of us."

"Everyone knows PHP can be used to create websites. But it can also be used to create desktop applications and commandline tools. And now with a class called System_Daemon, you can even create daemons using nothing but PHP. And did I mention it was easy?"

another good intro to ajax dev

"an introductory explanation of using jQuery to interact with your PHP application through AJAX."

"a free-to-use, web-based proxy script written in PHP. Similar to a typical proxy server, a web-proxy script downloads requested web pages and files and forwards them back to the user. The service is provided by a web page itself, which allows instant access to the proxy without editing your browser connection settings."

"allows you to view and edit your genealogy on your website. PhpGedView has full editing capabilities, full privacy functions, can import from GEDCOM files, and supports multimedia like photos and document images. PhpGedView also simplifies the process of collaborating with others working on your family tree."

useful CSE for webdev stuff http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015868731528078504351:y2ch535qrq0&ie=UTF-8&q=background+repeat&sa=Search

php based xmpp bot to interact with goocal (and rss feeds too apparently)

"A few days back, I read a number of blog posts where people have highlighted the shortcomings they see in newbie developers. Some of them have gone further to narrow down the focus on PHP developers only (as PHP’s nature sometimes allow developers to avoid standards). They did a great job by listing the shortcomings, but their posts missed clear way forwards (these can be inferred though). A number of readers also commented on the posts with their insight as well. So I was thinking how about compiling all these in an easy to follow list? Hence this post."

"a PHP 5 library for accessing the del.icio.us API. It combines data from the main REST and JSON APIs and presents a consolidated interface. It also implements a file based caching system which eliminates the need to query on every request and ensures access to the API won't be throttled due to excessive requests."

a plugin that permits the inclusion, in a post or in a page, of any type of file (even a php script that will be executed). use it to write some functionalities needed in some pages, without creating special template pages (that are theme dependant) and without using a "php code executor".

allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers.

free Open Source invoicing software intended for small businesses and independent contractors

howto use the powerful macro-like feature in Wordpress 2.5

Primer on handling html forms with PHP

Automatic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) In about 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Feisty Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go.

This is a beginners website/course on PHP created for web designers who have little to no programming experience.

Howto for running your own OpenID server using phpMyID

PHP method to check an email address against the RFC822 specs, as well as validating the MX record if required.

PHP safe_mode imposes a number of restrictions above and beyond standard Unix filesystem permissions.

a free wiki driven project management tool written in php5. Freelancers and small teams can easily setup projects and keep track of tasks, issues, bugs, efforts etc.

f Apache, mySQL, PHP and Perl (the AMPP in XAMPP) that all run from a removable drive

complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and

I wonder if a sitemap solves these problems?

CSS files for larger sites can become pretty large themselves. Gzipping or compressing these files has shown to provide a reduction in the neighborhood of 70-80% of the original file size, a fairly significant 'weight loss'.

PhpDelicious is a class for accessing the del.icio.us API. (nice standards based site design!)

nice basic howto for setting up OpenID on your domain with phpMyID

Zend Google Data Client Library provides a PHP 5 component to execute queries and commands against Google Data APIs from your PHP applications.

phpMyID is a standalone, single user, OpenID Identity Provider.

phplist is a one-way email announcement delivery system. It is great for newsletters, publicity lists, notifications, and many other uses.

activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool.

a PHP based script which allows flickr members to display the photos they have uploaded to flickr on there own "personal" website.

This tutorial is aimed at intermediate or advanced Web designers looking to make the leap into server-side programming. You'll be expected to be comfortable with simple HTML, as the tutorial makes use of it without much in the way of explanation. A teensy

Pligg is Web 2.0 Content Management System (CMS) unlike any other existing CMS.

PHProxy is a Web HTTP proxy programmed in PHP to bypass firewalls and other proxy restrictions through a Web interface

a WAMP package that allows you to run a web server on any MS Windows OS based computer

allows PHP programmers to easily build native Windows applications

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

myGifts enable you, your family and your friends to share your xmas wish-lists, your gift registry for your wedding or a newborn.

Ajax powered opensources forum

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

CivicSpace is a community organizing process and software platform. It allows you to build communities online and offline that can communicate effectively, act collectively, and coordinate coherently with a network of other related organizations.

A meta-site that gives you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your need

MediaWiki is a free Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is used to run Wikipedia and other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, as well as many other wikis.