Developer Resources

From Plings Info

Contents 1 Off the shelf applications 2 In development 3 Javascript 4 Yahoo Pipes 5 More Resources 6 Data Sets 7 Code Snippets

Off the shelf applications

• ShowMyPlings - plug in your Plings Output API XML URL, and see your data, group it, sort it, etc. A developers dream!
• Tag Getter - a php demo of the http://tagthe.net webservice that generates tags from blocks of text.
• Webplings asp.net - a Free Software project to visualise Plings data, in use at e.g. http://placestogothingstodo.co.uk
• Webplings - Free Software project written in php, in use at e.g. stockport.plings.net
• plingMob - PHP code to show plings on a mobile phone, made by Duncan at http://www.elasticeye.org.uk/, see it in action at http://alpha.rubothered.co.uk/

In development

• Simple Plings In - Free Software Project, still in development

Javascript

new 01/10/09

• JSON Tester - simple one page app, by Howie Weiner (http://www.microbubble.co.uk) to test the JSON data from the Plings Output API.

Yahoo Pipes

• Activities in the next hour RSS - By sending an activity feed through a yahoo pipe we limit our RSS feed to activities in the next hour..
• Re-write RSS links - Re-write the link from the individual RSS item to redirect to a different site...

More Resources

• Third Party Software - phpFlickr Class 2.1.0 written by Dan Coulter, to get photo's of Venues, parsers, and more...
• Plings Input API - MySQL - a set of 'Create table' instructions that may be of use for creating a MySQL database with all the fields available to the Plings Input API
• Plings Input API - MS SQL - a set of 'Create table' instructions that may be of use for creating a MS SQL database with all the fields available to the Plings Input API
• Plings Output into MySQl - take Plings XML data and put it into a MySQL database in 3 tables, activities, venues, providers
• CSV2Plings - a set of scripts to turn data in a 'Plings formatted' spreadsheet into the XML required for the Input API HTTP POST Method
• Code Snippets - bits and pieces we've found helpful.

Data Sets

• Ward Codes Lists of Ward Codes that you might use in a call to the Plings Output API.
• Local Authority Code We use the four character local authority codes currently in the Plings Output API.

Code Snippets

We have some little bits of code, functions, snippets, etc that may be of use and save you a bit of time. These are collected in the Code Snippets section.