So you want to automate a table-to-table import in QuickBase. Well, here’s a nifty little command-line script that uses the QuickBase PHP SDK to do just that. How it works When run from the command-line, the php scripts accepts two paramaters: dbID of the table with the saved import, and then the importID of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In March of 2010, Intuit QuickBase launched it’s Team Leadership & Productivity Blog. The blog is now focused on helping team leaders learn how to be better leader and drive productivity within their group. Before the launch; however, a lot of work went into the planning of the website. This included: Who is the target [...]
Since December of 2007, I have had the privilege of being the webmaster of the Intuit QuickBase web marketing website. What is QuickBase? Simply put, QuickBase is an online database that business users can use for building and running web-based applications. Uses for the types of applications QuickBase customers might create are for project management, [...]
On April 21, Intuit announced a new free corporate sustainability tool called FreeCycle@Work. FreeCycle@Work is targetted towards business who want to offer its employees the features of the wildly popular communtiy-based Freecycle.org, but with the advantages of having a centralized online database for just their company. Working closely with Sr. QuickBase Marketing Manager Gregory Collins [...]
During my time at Intuit, I have been a strong advocate of using and giving back to the open source community and one of the projects I’ve had the privilege of working on is the QuickBase PHP SDK project at code.intuit.com. This SDK is in heavy use on the QuickBase web-marketing website. We use it [...]
If you have a question about QuickBase, the use of the api in particular, please ask in the comments of this post. I will update this blog post to include your question and my answer so that others who come across my site can see it. Many of you have been emailing me GREAT questions [...]
i’ve had a few requests for examples of how to use the quickbase php api wrapper. so here goes: setup the quickbase object with login info include the library and setup the object by passing in username, password, true/false (xml/http), and dbID of the db/table you’ll be transacting with. 12include_once(’../includes/qb.php’); $quickbase = new QuickBase(’username’,'password’, true, [...]
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