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September 05, 2008 1:44pm
Subscribe [5]#1 / Sep 05, 2008 1:44pm
just out of the blue what are the top ten must have user contributed codeigniter library’s
flickr
paypal
what else is there if you can put a link to the library that would be helpful thanks? I was just looking at the flickr library nice work. Is there a rss feed that I can subscribe to so when somebody releases a library I can be notified instantly with a news feed
#2 / Oct 06, 2008 9:12pm
Hey Sally D.
Where is this CI library for Flickr that you’re referring to?
#3 / Oct 06, 2008 9:42pm
#4 / Oct 07, 2008 12:51pm
http://www.haughin.com/code/flickr/
Taewoo I found the library on Elliot’s site. Never got around to using it but it looks promising. The paypal library looks good to.
Codeigniter needs a google check out library as a matter of fact there needs to be a e commerce library. there is just so many places to hang my hat on I just don’t know where to start?
#5 / Oct 07, 2008 1:00pm
Sally D
Yeah i saw that one but it doesn’t do authentication if you want to, for example, get a user’s private pics.
#6 / Oct 07, 2008 2:20pm
I’ve found that for most Web 2.0 services (flickr, twitter, etc), it usually doesn’t take much more than a simple class with 2 or 3 member functions to get connected (especially with PHP 5).
I also don’t see how there could be an e-commerce library. E-commerce is a complex system that involves a lot more than a simple PHP class (many db tables, models, views, controllers, libraries, secure server architecture, etc). And most major merchant gateways provide PHP classes to connect and use their APIs. That, combined with Active Record, Session, and other core CI libs, has been enough for the e-commerce projects I’ve completed with CI.
#7 / Oct 08, 2008 11:34pm
Colin your right who needs a library?
What I was thinking of making was a CI class that out puts hyper links for the google shopping cart you know for the google check out. REally I need to read the google check out api but I wanted CI to build the hyper links for me and then I can pass arguments to the methods of my class to customize the links for each product I have on the page
So my class is just going to process some text the correct way so it works with the google check out server to update my cart amd process my order
I can also build into my CI library a way to be notified of a completed sale so I can remove the item from stock thingie
Maybe a CI class to make it easy to work with the google check out api soughta like the active class for mysql but only my ci will talk to the google checkout
later. thanks