Below you will find a class for using the Vtrenz Web Services API with PHP. This class abstracts a few of the individual methods available via the soap-based api and takes care of writing all of the XML in your request for you (ala SimpleXML). Here are the supported methods: insertCampaignParticipant sendOneOffEmail insertContact getEmailMessageStatus getContactData [...]
I’ve been using @font-face more and more over the past couple of months as a way to use custom fonts on websites I manage, but the issue I keep running into is that the contents of the page (including background sprites) will flicker a second after the content has loaded. It’s really ugly. The best [...]
Over the past few weeks, spammers have been inundating the QuickBase Contact Us form with automated spam. This has been quite a nuisance for the folks at QuickBase who read and respond to these contact form submissions. In response to the complaints of spam, it was suggested that we add a captcha to the for [...]
It seems that the homepage of Olin College of Engineering has been hacked. I use the term hacked loosely because it looks like the website is just a victim of some sort of third-party software exploit or it could be that they haven’t quite nailed down some of the permissions on their servers (they are [...]
I can’t tell you how annoyed I’ve been that I have to carry around *teen different customer rewards cards on my keychain. It’s ugly, bulky, and just a waste in many respects. Today, I saw an article on Mashable about a free application that completely takes care of managing these for me. The app, known [...]
Below is a A/B testing Zend Framework View Helper that will allow you to easily create a custom A/B test in the event you either don’t want to pay for a tool, don’t want to share your data with Google or some other need that other tools can’t fulfill. Using the A/B Test View Helper [...]
Last month, I created a Facebook group dedicated to McGinnis Genealogy. If you manage to find this post by searching for some ‘McGinnis’ related keyword, please feel free to join the group and contribute to other McGinnis relatives who are looking for McGinnis genealogy info. P4GJAGVPJFEF
The Google Visualization API has a lot of really useful charts and graphs that, when combined with a web-based database like QuickBase, can really be powerful. Here’s a complete example of how to use the PHP SDK for QuickBase to get data from a QuickBase and use it side-by-side with the Google Visualization API to [...]
Title: Embedding QRCode Barcodes in Intuit QuickBase This post will describe how you can use the Google Charts API to embed to dynamically create QRCodes for contacts in a QuickBase online database application. QR Codes are a 2D barcode that can store a bit more data than standard barcodes, such as a complete person’s contact [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve taken up the hobby of mushroom hunting and identification. This has caused quite the few people to scratch their heads, not excluding my neighbor who recently inquired about the “indoor greenhouse” I had setup in my basement to look like a lab of some sort. Once I explained to [...]
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