Creating a WordPress plugin is not necessarily a difficult task for an experienced WordPress developer, but I recently found an easier way to create one quickly. What I really like about it is that I didn’t have to sacrifice good coding standards and good WordPress standards. It also allowed me to keep a structured approach […]
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Once I got the OAuth working for Zoho , I could use the Zoho API version 2.0. I wanted to add a new Lead to Zoho from my website. I couldn’t find any examples of this, but I finally figured it out. This is the code that worked for me: Again, this wouldn’t work until
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A year or two ago I did some work for a client with the Zoho API version 1.0. Now, they’ve deprecated that API version and will stop supporting it soon, so I must upgrade to version 2 of the API. Version 2.0 of the Zoho API uses OAuth for authentication which is not something I
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There are several ways to add php code to your WordPress blog. (Note: For our purposes here, we are talking about executing php code, not displaying php code for others to see. We will be using php code to make our page more dynamic.) PHP Plugin If it’s only one or two lines of code,
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One of my clients complained that her users were contacting her quite often because they had forgotten their username. Of course, the username is listed in the email if you click on ‘forgot password’, but many novice users don’t know that or don’t think to click there to find their username. I figured that should
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My first step in learning Symfony is to go through the Getting Started Big Picture tutorial. I followed the instructions to install Symfony, but immediately ran into a problem when I tried to execute the new Symfony command. I got a ‘permission denied’ error. I had to change the permission to 755 on the /usr/local/bin/Symfony
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I added code to a client’s website a while back to allow them to use First Data to take credit cards on their site. Everything was working well until last week when it just quit working. It was no longer communicating with First Data. It completely stopped receiving a response at all from the CURL
DISCLAIMER: I WILL NEVER USE FIRST DATA AGAIN AND WILL TRY TO DISCOURAGE MY CLIENTS. THEIR CHARGES ARE RIDICULOUS. THEY MAY BE BETTER FOR RETAIL, BUT, IN MY EXPERIENCE WITH WEB INTEGRATION, THEY ARE WAY EXPENSIVE. USE STRIPE.COM INSTEAD. READ MORE HERE I have a client with a First Data merchant account. She has also
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I want my clients to be able to check for domain names and register them from my site. As a member of the Reseller Club I can do just that… once I figure out their API. They do have some documentation on the site, but it took quite a bit of work to figure out
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There are many PHP frameworks out there such as Symfony, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and many more. I don’t know that any framework is better in all things than any other framework. I think it’s probably a matter of familiarity and preference. My favorite as of this writing is Symfony. You can read about my experience
