PHP insights, tips and tricks

Create your own Instagram app with PHP

Register your application Instagram to get your OAuth credentials.
Make sure to set your callback URL as a web address that is accessible anywhere from tje Internet, something like http://yourdoma.in/callback.php
Download the latest version of the code in zip or tar.gz format.
Unpack the code and modify the credentials stored in the $config variable of example.php to the [...]

Instagram API implementation in PHP

Instagram recently released an official API. Initially, they had implementations in Python and Ruby, so I decided to build mine in PHP with a little help from Zend Framework.
In order to use the official API, you have to sign up first for a client key at http://instagr.am/developer/. You will need to register a new client [...]

Barcelona international PHP conference wrap up

After attending Google Developer Day in Madrid, I knew it was going to be hard to impress me. But the guys from phpbcnint08 blowed me away! Not only because of the very high quality of the speakers, the comfortable and appropriate venue, the really good meal, the all you can drink or the Wii, the [...]

Nuevo Proyecto Open Source

Ya está en línea en el sitio web de SourceForge mi primer proyecto oficial de Open Source. Se llama Azúcar CMS y tal como su nombre lo indica es un Content Management System (Sistema de Manejo de Contenido) creado utilizando PHP, PostgreSQL y otras tantas herramientas, todas de libre distribución. El desarrollo pasó por todas las etapas de la ingeniería de software [...]