The Hackday Toolbox – getting you started faster

Just having spent a lot of time at the amazing open hack day in Bangalore, India I found that most of the questions about starting a hack using Yahoo technology revolved around a few issues:

• How do I access data on the web/from web services?
• How do I use YQL from JavaScript or PHP?
• How do I display information I received from YQL with PHP or JavaScript?
• How do I get the location of the user and how do I analyse content for geographical locations?
• How do I access oAuth authenticated information of Yahoo?
• How do I set up PHP and where can I see errors?

So, to avoid having to repeat myself again I put together The Hackday Toolbox which contains sample code that deals with all these issues.

The hackday toolbox contains:

• An introduction to installing and using PHP with MAMP/XAMPP and debugging it
• YQLGeo for all your geo and location needs
• Demos of querying YQL in JavaScript, YUI3 and PHP
• Demos to display YQL data
• Authenticated example to access the Yahoo Firehose
• Rendering Yahoo Geoplanet data as a map

You can download the Hackday Toolbox on GitHub or try the examples.

The toolbox is BSD licensed, so if you want to add Java/Ruby/Python/Heskell/Pascal/Logo/Fortran/6502 Assembly code examples, please do so.

I put my hack in a box…

Tags: hackday, javascript, oauth, php, yahoo, yql

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