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Converting to XML or JSON with YQL

Posted Feb 25th, 2009 by admin
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 [...]

Getting RSS data is really simple…

Posted Oct 25th, 2008 by admin
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 [...]

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