Update: Thanks to @CarstenSchwede, who pointed out that the MooTools Class Constructor expects the Extends mutator __before__ the Implements one, meaning you don’t need to worry about any of the stuff I had to come up with (described in this post). Upon further investigation with Arian, it turns out that MooTools 2.0 will NOT be dependent on order of Extends… Read more →
updated for mootools 1.3.2 I needed to bring some images into a thumbnail/gallery and decided to use flickr’s API for easy access. The result is a mini-api which allows you to control your options and parse the images that flickr sends back. // the class Request.flickr = new Class({ Extends: Request.JSONP, options: { callbackKey: “jsoncallback”, url: “http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/?”, log: true },… Read more →
I tend to get annoyed about URL baiting that takes place over social networks – you really don’t know what’s behind a shortened URL until you click it. Or… until you run a URL resolver that can help. In building my Twitter Trend Aggregator, I came to explore this and found an invaluable service through the API of longurl.org that… Read more →
I was writing my own re-tweet class and found that I need to crunch URLs on the fly to make them fit within the 140 character limit on Twitter. Come bit.ly and their API, easily accessible via REST and with a JSONP callback interface, just the job for extending Request.JSONP: Request.bitly = new Class({ // shorten urls via bit.ly Extends:… Read more →
I wrote this a while back when I needed to do pseudo AJAX calls to a remote host. Due to XSS restrictions and security policies, a normal XMLHttpRequest (XHR) call is not allowed to work across domains or even sub-domains. But Yahoo’s YQL interface kindly lets you GET any URL (which also means being able to submit via GET), irregardless… Read more →
Nothing like being egocentric so here’s what you can do to add latest tweets of a particular user to your site through mootools. This class totally forked from a post by AppDen (Scott Kyle) so feel free to give him some love, he deserves it for being such a bright spark. You can also “play” with this live on JSFiddle… Read more →
I needed to get retweet counts as data, as opposed embedding the standard widget that tweetmeme supply. Turning to their API instead got me joy initially. After a stressful few minutes with a javascript label exception was taking place, it transpired that the tweetmeme API was not returning valid JSON within i’s deignated callback wrapper. Instead, it came back as… Read more →
Here’s a novel idea (stolen from AppDen‘s Twitter feed fetch class) – extend the mootools-more’s JSONP class and setup some quick and easy geolocation lookups through pidgets.com and YQL (yahoo query language). Here they are, 3 mini classes. First one uses the client’s IP address (or an optional ip supplied by options) to fetch geolocation info from http://geoip.pidgets.com/. The second… Read more →
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