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SimpleYouTube: PHP Class For Getting Video Details

Posted March 11, 2010

While writing a custom CMS for a client, I was approached with the request to enable it to accept any YouTube URL and add that video to a video gallery page on the web site. This turned out to be a lot easier than it sounds, and in this post I'm sharing the class I wrote to assist with the task.

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Tagged as simpleyoutube, xml, php, php5, youtube, video details, thumbnail, description, and title

How to Parse Google Maps Returned Address Data: A Simple jQuery Plugin

Posted February 19, 2009

Google maps makes it very easy to add a map to any page - but it's not so easy to extract meaningful address data from what Google returns. The goal of this article is to help you do three things.

Article Goals

  • Send a string to Google Maps
  • Parse the response Google returns
  • Do something useful with …

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Tagged as google maps, parse address, return data, jquery, jquery plugin, and how to google maps
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Shawn is a 28 year old freelance graphic and web application designer in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His other project is called QuoteRobot and it's coming soon!