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This is a simple code example, which illustrates how easy it is to not only get any YQL data rendered on a web page, but also how to call the Updates Firehose YQL Table. Follow the comments for additional help.
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| <?php | |
| // This is a simple code example, which illustrates how easy it is to not only get any YQL data rendered on a web page, but also how to call the Updates Firehose YQL Table. Follow the comments for additional help. | |
| // Your config file, which contains $CONSUMER_KEY & $CONSUMER_SECRET info | |
| require_once('config.php'); | |
| // grab the following library here: http://github.com/yahoo/yos-social-php5 | |
| require_once('lib/OAuth/OAuth.php'); | |
| require_once('lib/Yahoo/YahooOAuthApplication.class.php'); | |
| // instantiate a new oauth application, reference your credentials in config.php | |
| $oauthapp = new YahooOAuthApplication($CONSUMER_KEY, $CONSUMER_SECRET, ''); | |
| // very easily state your yql statement as a string | |
| $rsp = $oauthapp->yql('select * from social.updates.search where query="X-Men";'); | |
| // create var updates | |
| $updates = $rsp->query->results->update; | |
| ?> | |
| <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" | |
| "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> | |
| <html lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> | |
| <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4;url=updatesfirehose.php"> | |
| <title>YQL Updates Firehose Demo (YOS SDK)</title> | |
| <style type='text/css'> | |
| /* A little lazy CSS3 magic. Sure, why not? Sadly, only works in webkit/safari, but you can do all this in FireFox too */ | |
| body{font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#000), to(#ccc), to(#000));background-color:#3D3D3D;} | |
| h1{/*text-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em #C0C0C0;*/color:#fff;} | |
| #container{text-align:center;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;height:100%;} | |
| a{font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;color:#3154C7;} | |
| #results{text-align:left; width: 60%; margin-left: 15%; border: 1px solid #8D8D8D; padding: 20px; height: 600px; overflow: auto; background:#fff; } | |
| .updateitem{border:1px solid #C8C8C8;padding:20px;-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px;background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#fff), to(#fff), color-stop(0.1, #E5E5E5), color-stop(0.5, #F2F2F2));} | |
| .sourcemini{float:right;} | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <div id="container"> | |
| <div id="heading"><h1>Yahoo! YQL Updates Firehose Demo</h1></div> | |
| <div id="results"> | |
| <?php | |
| // Here's where the updates get built out - each item is pulled out of the array and set as a var. | |
| foreach($updates as $update) { | |
| $link = $update->link; | |
| $title = $update->title; | |
| $source = $update->source; | |
| // And render the thing. | |
| echo <<<HTML | |
| <p class='updateitem'><a href="{$link}">{$title}</a> | |
| <br><span class='sourcemini'>{$source}</span></p> | |
| HTML; | |
| } | |
| ?> | |
| </div></div> | |
| </body></html> |
You can see this demo running on my personal server here: http://sensorycreative.com/projects/y/yql/yql-demo-app/updatesfirehose.php
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This is a simple code example, which illustrates how easy it is to not only get any YQL data rendered on a web page, but also how to call the Updates Firehose YQL Table. Follow the comments for additional help.