David’s Web Development Blog

XML, JSON, YQL.  Is that enough acronyms for you? XML and JSON you’ve probably heard about, but maybe not YQL, which is Yahoo!’s SQL-esque query language which was released to the public late last year.  It’s primarily advertised as a service to access data from Yahoo! properties such as Flickr and Yahoo! News.  What you may [...]

As its name suggests, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) turns out to be just that - quite easy.  RSS is basically a simple XML feed, and as I have limited experience with XML, it’s always been a mystery to me how exactly you go about receiving and manipulating that data. As it turns out, in PHP 5 [...]

This is a relatively easy fix, but it seems to be a pretty common problem.  It doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of understanding about character sets.  Or maybe that’s just my own lack of understanding  The Problem In any case - here’s the idea: I have a simple database setup for my WWI Flight [...]