Php page scrape facebook

Fix for Facebook authentication on IE

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/08/facebook-auth-next-parameter-ie.html Fix for Facebook authentication on IE What?This is for Facebook developers who have faced this problem. If you are using an Facebook application to authenticate a user on a PHP website, the Facebook redirection on Internet Explorer specifically fails the login of the user. This is because the return URL returned by facebook specifically for IE is the appending of the CallBack URL specified in the Application +the Next parameter + a "?" + the auth_token parameter.This results ...

PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output

http://digitalpbk.com/php/file_get_contents-garbled-gzip-encoding-website-scraping . ) ); $context = stream_context_create($opts); // Open the file using the HTTP headers set above echo file_get_contents("http://www.example.com", false, $context); This should force the server to send a plain response to your client. Method 2 : Unzipping the contents locally This method is slower but useful if the server forces gzip output. We can use the gzdecode function avaliable from PHP 6.0 or the gzdecode function definition given in gzdecode man page on PHP.net. The code to deflate ...

Free Light weight Social media sharing javascript for Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg and Reddit

http://digitalpbk.com/javascript/free-light-small-social-media-sharing-javascript-facebook-twitter-stumble-upon-digg-and-r page load slow as well as bring in unintentional 3rd party javascript code ( or flash tracker ) which runs on your blog. So it is always safe to use your own script or scripts which you can read understand and verify it just does what it is suppose to do. :) Javascript Object for Social Media Sharing var share = { fb:function(title,url) { this.share('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=##URL##&t=##TITLE##',title,url); }, tw ...

Google search goes social with Social Search Results - The Facebook effect ?

http://digitalpbk.com/google/google-search-social-results-beta Google search goes social with Social Search Results - The Facebook effect ? The following is the screenshot of Google Search result page when searched for something my friend has blogged on. Is google moving towards a social networking side ? Google is slowly adding the "Social" aspect to all its products. After launching Buzz on Gmail, "Social Results" aspect in "Google Search" results too reveals this trend. Google seems to be worried about the immense ...

CodeIgniter: Use GET Parameters for OAuth or Facebook

http://digitalpbk.com/codeigniter/use-get-parameters-facebook-application CodeIgniter: Use GET Parameters for OAuth or Facebook Codeignitor destroys your GET parameters, because it does not use it, however for applications that use OAuth, Facebook Applications or Facebook authentication using Facebook connect, GET parameters are required. In order to retrieve GET parameters from Code Ignitor, first we have to change the config.php, uri_protocol to PATH_INFO, this solves 404 Errors with GET parameters on Codeigniter ...

Remove Flash Tracking on AddThis module on Drupal 5

http://digitalpbk.com/drupal/remove-flash-tracking-addthis-module-drupal-5 Remove Flash Tracking on AddThis module on Drupal 5 If you use AddThis module on drupal, you might have noticed that a 1px by 1px flash object is created which sets tracking cookies on your pages. This is transparent to the user most time and you will see it only under generated source view. The flash button is added dynamically by the addThis module on the top of the page. This sometimes can be annoying since a white bar can appear at the top of the page due to this. In drupal 6, the flash ...

PyFacebook Download Python Facebook API Library

http://digitalpbk.com/pyfacebook/pyfacebook-download-python-facebook-api-library PyFacebook Download Python Facebook API Library PyFacebook is the official Facebook API Library written in Python. It is maintained in github, I have attached a snapshot of the master trunk zip file with this post. Python Facebook Software ...

Custom extenstion for a Server Script

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/custom-extenstion-for-server-script.html be cool, because a statically appearing page is actually dynamic. But the disadvantage of using this is that, all HTML files will be passed through the PHP engine and parsed for the PHP codes. This puts unnecessary pressure on the servers and makes it slow.It is better to choose someother extension, if there is a lot of static content on your website. If most of your pages are in PHP, this effect is cool.If for some reason your .htaccess gets deleted or restored to default, All the PHP codes ...

An Introduction to PHP

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/04/introduction-to-php-part1.html An Introduction to PHP PHP ?PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. Well what is it ? In the world wide web we are familiar with the HTML page. The HTML page is static and does not change. What if we want a page that has some parts common and other parts different according to the browser or user that is visiting the site? Say for an example, a user's profile page. It is wasteful and time consuming to make each user a separate HTML page. Here is where Server side scripting comes in. Thus we ...

Removing index.php From URL in CodeIgniter

http://digitalpbk.com/code-ignitor/removing-indexphp-url # Code Igniter Htaccess Rules RewriteEngine on # Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php/x'. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA] We also have to configure the config.php "index_page" key so that it is blank. /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Index File |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Typically ...