I’m going to spend several posts discussing authorize.net’s Customer Information Manager, a Web service for storing and retrieving personally identifiable information about the people who place credit card orders on your Web site.
Today, I’m focusing solely on an overview of CIM: What it is, how it works, why it works that way, and approaches to [...]
Archive of posts tagged XML
Working With The Authorize.net Customer Information Manager (CIM), Part 1: Overview
Shortening URLs With The bit.ly API Via ASP.NET
After yesterday’s post on using the Twitter API to post status updates on Twitter from an ASP.NET application, a follower of my client suggested using a URL shortening service to link to the articles headlines being posted as tweets.
That was an excellent idea of which I should have thought in the first place. And thanks [...]
Posting Status Updates (Tweets) To A Twitter Profile Via ASP.NET
I have a client that posts several news stories to its Web site every day. So it makes tremendous sense for them to post the headlines to Twitter as tweets, so that followers might be informed of breaking news, or just what’s new on the site.
The Twitter API makes posting status updates (tweets) to Twitter [...]
Dynamically Assigning XSLT And XML Files Via PHP And Apache mod_rewrite
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers:
How to work with XML files in PHP?
I’ve a couple directories filled with thousands of xml files.
Also all these xml files should be reachable with their filename (but have .php at the end instead of .xml) in the url.
For example in the article directory the xml file named “news.xml”should be reachable [...]
An ASP.NET Subroutine To Locally Store The National Weather Service Current Observations XML Feeds
As promised in my last article, here’s some ASP.NET 2.0 / VB.NET code to locally store / cache the National Weather Service’s current observations XML feeds.
The first step in this process is to create a directory on your Web server that is writeable. The second is to determine how, and when, you’ll update your feeds. [...]
Using National Weather Service XML Feeds With ASP.NET, ADO.NET And XSL
In a previous article, I noted that I would provide ASP.NET code to consume the National Weather Service’s XML current observation feeds. Here it is.
In the case of PHP, I opted to create a class that would provide a simple array of values from the feed, as well as some predefined outputs for the feed [...]
