Added by Joshua McGinnis on April 12th, 2011, filed under PHP, QuickBase
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 [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on February 28th, 2011, filed under Chrome Extensions, Google
I’ve been doing some Chrome extension development in the past week and as you may or may not know, chrome extensions are allowed to make cross-domain ajax calls. This is allowed because of the Chrome extension permission model which requires a user installing an extension to agree to that the installed application may access your [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on November 29th, 2010, filed under Google, SEO, Web Development, Zend Framework
Here’s a quick little tutorial to show you how you can create a dynamic robots.txt file with the Zend Framework. My robot files aren’t usually complex since I’m really careful about not putting anything that could be indexed in the web root, but there are some cases where you may want to have more control [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on August 31st, 2010, filed under PHP, Portfolio, Web Development, XML

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 [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on August 17th, 2010, filed under Google, Javascript, Web Development
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 [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on August 9th, 2010, filed under PHP, QuickBase, Web Development, Work, Zend Framework
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 [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on July 30th, 2010, filed under PHP, Web Development, Zend Framework
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 [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on July 27th, 2010, filed under API, Google, Javascript, QuickBase
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 [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on July 27th, 2010, filed under API, QuickBase, Tutorials
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 [...]
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Added by Joshua McGinnis on July 12th, 2010, filed under API, Open Source, PHP, Portfolio, Web Development, XML

Are you a PHP developer looking to do WebEx API Integration for things like: Getting WebEx meeting information Retrieving a list of WebEx Event attendees Creating new Meeting and Event attendees Well, good news – there is now a WebEx PHP SDK (really – just a class with a set of wrapper methods) that makes [...]
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