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Managing Alerts in Web Application Using RESTful API

I have designed a RESTful API and I am now working on creating a web application to use the service. One thing I am struggling with is how to manage alerts in the web application (similar to the ...
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Google Maps - Geofence a route

I'm looking at implementing a PHP based application, where by you have a certain route for example London to Edinburgh. Along this route, I want to calculate say a 10mi Radius or Polygon around the ...
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Building dedicated codepad in PHP

I am author of growing framework, which is focused around User Interface building in PHP. Essential requirements for the up-coming website redesign is ability to run code examples. I am willing to ...
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PHP - Internal APIs/Libraries - What makes sense?

I've been having a discussion lately with some colleagues about the best way to approach a new project, and thought it'd be interesting to get some external thoughts thrown into the mix. Basically, ...
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Best Method/Library For Remote Authentication [closed]

I have a web app that has a REST API interface: http://api.example.com/core that uses API Keys and domain specific keys (key has to be used on the specified domain). I then will have several client ...
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Drawbacks to entirely Ajax driven CMS

I'll try to keep this question as specific as possible.. I'm about to start building an API for an upcoming project. I'm currently thinking PHP/Symfony2. It will be a farily simple HTTP-based api for ...
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API access question

FIRST, THE SCENARIO We have an internal system that is effectively split into 2 very separate parts across 2 sub-domains, our back-end administrative system for internal access only we will call this ...
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How safe is it to cache a user ticket in SESSION

I'm working on a client library to interface with my company's api, and we generate a user ticket when the user logs in using the api. Obviously I don't want to send the user ticket to the client ...
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API Design Question

I am currently designing a API and have come to a slight design issue and was hoping for a few other opinions. My url structure for accessing basic data from the API is: ...