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Zend and Google mashup in PHP
by Ryan Carter Dec 26th 2006 at 6:46PM
The Zend PHP framework will now play nice with Google Data in a collaborative effort that puts the elves to shame. The component built by Google and Zend lives in the top level and not under Zend_service, which makes it more accessible and is mostly because the Gdata service is a protocol of its own, not merely a service wrapper. Google's component isn't the first to be included and follows the likes of Amazon, Yahoo, Flickr, and others to allow PHP developers to use data much easier through the Zend framework.The new version of the Zend framework is out (version 0.60) as of last week, so go check it out when you get done going through your stocking one more time. The new framework has many bug fixes and features as you might expect, but that is why you can download it and have fun yourself.
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Mr Textbooks said 11:12AM on 12-27-2006
I'm done wasting time on Google APIs. They have the most restrictive limits, and then shut them down without warning like they did with the SOAP search interface last week. A bunch of work down the toilet for me, so I'm taking it as a lesson learned.
Don't pour a bunch of sweat into something that's not a priority for them. Amazon, Yahoo, and Flickr all consistently continue to support and talk up their services, I say go with anyone but Google on this.
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