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When I started building my mashups with PHP one idea I had was to fetch audio previews for songs and albums, this was actually supposedly possible with the Amazon Product Advertising API, but I could never get it to work with the limited data I had in my csv file. Last.fm does not provide audio [...]

I made my albumCollection.php class versatile enough that it was easy to just crank it out. I spent most of my time in the last 24 hours fixing up the csv file so that the maximum number of album covers are found in Amazon.com. It still doesn’t find them all and it gets a few [...]

I never set out to write this much PHP code. But after seeing what passes for a PHP API to access Amazon Product Information, well I vowed to do a good job on my PHP class, even though it was intended for my own personal use. I had modest goals at the beginning I just [...]

So I’ve been working on my cover gallery err mashup and I decided what it needed was a button linking to the Facebook fanpage but that proved difficult to pull off. I’m using an extension to the actual Facebook PHP SDK, which didn’t perform as advertised, but now the developer has modified it. I still [...]