PHPTube voted 2nd place in PHP Innovation Awards!
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007my YouTube API-extension PHPTube has been voted 2nd place in the PHP Innovation Award of PHPClasses.org - very cool :), thanks everybody for voting & congratulations to the other winners!
PHPTube nominated f. PHP Innovation Award
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007just noticed that my YouTube-hack PHPTube has been nominated for June’s PHP Innovation Award at PHP Classes, cool! weither you’re using PHPTube or not, your votes are highly appreciated… 
[voters are required to sign up for an account, which I'ld recommend to PHP-developers anyways, PHP Classes being a constant source of quality-code for years]. thx!
btw., if you’re looking for convenient ways to upload clips to multiple video-platforms with a single click, check out hey!spread - the meta uploader currently supports YouTube, MySpace video, Photobucke, Blip.tv, Metacafe and several others….
PHPTube - YouTube API for Video Upload & Download
Saturday, June 16th, 2007YouTube’s API - basically a read-only set of RSS-feeds and XML/RPC-calls - currently doesn’t support scripted upload or download of videofiles. My quick hack PHPTube offers this featureset in a cleanly encapsulated PHP-class. Special interest goes to the upload-functionality, which virtually allows the integration of YouTube as a video-storage-backend into any other web-app. And while there are several download-scripts out there on the web, I’ve yet to find another uploader.
I’ve originally built PHPTube for using it within PLAY.FM (talking about automated upload of video-footage from our live radio-broadcasts), but since these things take some time I’ld love to hear if anyone out there has some use for my script…a simple digg would do as well 
Warning: due to changes in the YouTube’s HTML, all versions prior 0.1.3 are obsolete!
Download: PHPTube 0.1.4 (added support for PHP 4)
Requirements: PHP, PEAR/HTTP
Attention: If you’re looking for PEAR, goto http://pear.php.net/ and read http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php!
Ports: Java-port of PHPTube (by James Schopp), Python-Port (by Sylvain Boily), Joomla-Plugin (download-only, by Mohamad Ballouk) - thx!
Using PHPTube? Consider a donation, to keep things rolling…thanks!
Yahoo! OurCity - Localized Mashup
Friday, February 2nd, 2007Yahoo!’s mashup OurCity retrieves location-based data from various Yahoo!-properties. photos from flickr, bookmarks from del.icio.us and events from Upcoming together with news-clips, blogs & podcasts draw an appropriate picture of the city. currently in early beta, the service is available for Delhi & Bangalore only.
(screenshot courtesy of GigaOM)
beta: phpBB 3.0 Beta 1 released
Monday, June 19th, 2006
the phpBB-team released the first public beta of phpBB version 3.0 (’Olympus’) this saturday. phpBB is probably the worlds most often installed opensource bulletin-board system and therefor also an inviting target for automated mass-hacks. besides tightening security, new features in 3.0 cover many things previously accomplished by external extension as well as loads of new stuff: attaching of files and inline-media to posts, more flexible user-profiles, improved user-management, better performance due caching and support for Oracle-databases (here is a list of the Olympus feature highlights).
my first impression after a quick test-installation of Olympus: many of the new features are useful (I especially like the new administration-panel) and will make everyone hosting a phpBB-board want to upgrade soon. let’s hope that the phpBB-team will offer good migration-tools, otherwise the transition to 3.0 could be painful…
