Web Mashups

During my third lengthy period of post-Sauder MBA unemployment I made a bunch of web mashups using PHP and various APIs and web services. I used PHP as I knew it was available on my webhost. I don't recommend PHP as a software development language unless you have no other option or you can leverage a large amount of existing code, for example all the open source code I link to below.

Mashups in Chronological Order:

1. My CD Cover Gallery
2. My CD Collection Browser
3. My Random CD Mashup
4. My Favourite Songs Mashup
5. My Favourite Film Mashup
6. My Favourite Quotations Mashup

If you want to make web mashups you can use my code as I've made it available here. It is pretty much unsupported and definitely provided 'as is'. To use it you will need to get some other PHP working and get permission to use the following APIs.

APIs I Used

• Amazon Product Advertising API
• Last.fm
• MusicBrainz
• iTunes Store
• MediaWiki
• Rotten Tomatoes
• IMDB
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Klout
• Topsy
• YouTube
• Flickr
• BestBuy Remix

PHP code to download

I still recommend these older instructions and following those steps to get my and other people's code to run. Below are links to the very latest versions of the PHP I wrote as well as other code I used:

• My changes to Matt's Last.fm PHP API
• My additions and changes to Sameer's Amazon Product API code
• Vadim's Facebook codebase
• The official Facebook PHP SDK, now using version v.3.1.1
• Tweetify.inc is necessary or at least useful when using the Twitter API
• phpFlickr by Dan Coulter
• phpBrainz will need to be updated soon, hopefully not by me ;-)
• You need to put your API keys and other information into myInfo.php
• mCollection.php and all the classes I've made that inherrit from it
• My helper functions and my simple caching class

Words and Images © Muskie McKay.
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