Blogfreakz - Web Design and Web Development resources » API http://blogfreakz.com A site dedicated to keeping up with the latest trends on Web Design Thu, 17 May 2012 00:27:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Create Audio Visualizations Using HTML5 http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/create-audio-visualizations-using-html5/ http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/create-audio-visualizations-using-html5/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:45:01 +0000 Keith@Blogfreakz http://blogfreakz.com/?p=26983 As you know, audio visualization is that psychedelic or kaleidoscopic animation you see while listening to your MP3s on media players like Windows Media Player and Winamp. Well, for today’s featured tutorial I’d like to share with you all something from Senior Interactive Developer Nick Jonas. It’s a tutorial that will not only teach you how to create an audio visualization using HTML5 but will also help you familiarize yourself with Google Chrome’s Web Audio API.

HTML5 Audio Visualizations Create Audio Visualizations Using HTML5

By the time you’re finished with the tutorial you will have created a native browser app that will cycle through a designated playlist which will also have its own audio-driven animation feature. CLICK HERE to start working on his tutorial.

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/create-audio-visualizations-using-html5/feed/ 0 jQuery GPS http://blogfreakz.com/jquery/jquery-gps/ http://blogfreakz.com/jquery/jquery-gps/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:18:20 +0000 Marvin@Blogfreakz http://blogfreakz.com/?p=26583

jQuery GPS jQuery GPS Click above to view the plugin’s full documentation.

Give exact locations right in your website! Check out this fantastic jQuery plugin designed by graphic designer Aron Brown. The jQuery GPS is perfect if you want to include Google Maps into your website yet don’t want to be bothered with other unnecessary features.

This is the best solution to your needs at showing directions to your visitors because it is lightweight, it allows the viewer to select places on the map, and you can add customer IDs for addresses and use any element to trigger the event.

Grab the FILES, see the DEMO.

Below is the code, first yeou need an API key which you can get here.

 

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&sensor=true&key=YOUR API KEY HERE" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="gps.jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#map").googleMap().load();
</script>
<div id="directions"></div>
<div id="map"></div>
<input type="text" id="start" />
<input type="text" id="end" />
<input type="submit" id="getdirections" value="Get Directions!" />

 

 

 

 

 

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/jquery/jquery-gps/feed/ 1 Make Blinking Neon Forms with CSS3 and jQuery http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/make-blinking-neon-forms-with-css3-and-jquery/ http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/make-blinking-neon-forms-with-css3-and-jquery/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:12:25 +0000 Keith@Blogfreakz http://blogfreakz.com/?p=24484 This cool form effect has the usual attributes we enjoy — rounded corners, stroke edges and other CSS-generated qualities. But thanks to web developer Rakesh Menon, this one’s got another thing up its sleeve: it’s got a  glowing neon border that pulsates!

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Here’s the demo for you to really appreciate it. Click here for the source files (/zip).

Now let’s start the tutorial with the xHTML to setup the layout.

xHTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> 

<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” >

<head>

<meta content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ http-equiv=”Content-Type” />

<title>Form Tutorial</title>

<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”style.css”>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jquery-1.4.2.min.js”></script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”highlight.js”></script>

</head>

<body>

<div id=”page-wrap”>

<form id=”myform” method=”post” action=”#”>

<div>

<div >

<label for=”personname” >Name</label>

<input name=”personname” type=”text” />

</div>

<div >

<label for=”email” >E-mail</label>

<input name=”email” type=”text” />

</div>

<div >

<label for=”website” >Website</label>

<input name=”website” type=”text” />

</div>

<div >

<label for=”details” >Details</label>

<textarea name=”details” ></textarea>

</div>

</div>

<!–div ></div–>

<input type=”submit” value=”Submit” />

</form>

</div>

</body>

</html>

If you would rather use Google’s API instead of downloading a copy of jQuery, you can just replace this part of the code “<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jquery-1.4.2.min.js”></script>” with the one below:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”></script>

Once you’ve decided where to get the source for your jQuery, let’s move on to CSS.

CSS

*{ 

margin:0;

padding:0;

}

textarea, input{

outline:none;

}

body{

background:#3D3D3D;

}

#page-wrap{

width:350px;

min-height:500px;

height:auto;

margin:0 auto;

position:relative;

padding-top:50px;

font:15px Arial;

}

#myform{

width:375px;

-moz-border-radius: 8px; /* FF1+ */

-webkit-border-radius: 8px; /* Saf3+, Chrome */

border-radius: 8px; /* Opera 10.5, IE 9 */

margin:0 auto;

position:relative;

}

#myform label{

top:10px;

position:relative;

color:white;

}

.field{

background:gray;

padding:15px 15px 0 10px;

height:50px;

width:350px;

}

#myform div:first-child{

-moz-border-radius-topleft: 8px;

-moz-border-radius-topright: 8px;

-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 8px;

-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 8px;

border-top-left-radius: 8px;

border-top-right-radius: 8px;

}

#myform div:last-child{

-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px;

-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 8px;

-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 8px;

-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 8px;

border-bottom-left-radius: 8px;

border-bottom-right-radius: 8px;

}

.area{

padding:15px 15px 0 10px;

min-height:195px;

}

.inputfield{

padding:0 10px 0 10px;

float:right;

width:200px;

font:15px Arial;

border:2px aqua inset;

-moz-border-radius: 8px; /* FF1+ */

-webkit-border-radius: 8px; /* Saf3+, Chrome */

border-radius: 8px; /* Opera 10.5, IE 9 */

}

.textfield{

height:25px;

padding-top:5px;

}

.textarea1{

padding-top:10px;

padding-bottom:10px;

height:150px;

max-height:200px;

max-width:250px;

}

If you take a look at the result at this point you’ll notice that you still have the default look for the submit button. If you want to change it, just copy/paste and add this code in your CSS.

.submitbutton{ 

border: 0px;

float:right;

width:75px;

height:40px;

font:20px Arial;

position:relative;

top:20px;

right:10px;

-moz-border-radius: 8px;

-webkit-border-radius: 8px;

border-radius: 8px;

-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 30px #3cdfdf;

-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 30px #3cdfdf;

box-shadow: 0px 0px 30px #3cdfdf;

background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, white, #3cdfdf); /* FF3.6 */

background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, white),color-stop(1, #3cdfdf)); /* Saf4+, Chrome */

filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr=’white’, EndColorStr=’#3cdfdf’); /* IE6,IE7 */

-ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr=’white’, EndColorStr=’#3cdfdf’)”; /* IE8 */

}

.submitbutton:hover{

background: #3cdfdf;

color:white;

}

The last piece of CSS code below will add the glowing effect to the neon edges of your input boxes. This part (@-webkit-keyframes) by the way, only works in browsers using the Webkit layout engine like Chrome and Safari:

@-webkit-keyframes pulsate { 

0%   {  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #3cdfdf;  border:2px aqua inset  }

25%  {  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 35px #3cdfdf; border:2px aqua inset  }

50%  {  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px white;    border:2px white inset }

75%  {  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 35px white;   border:2px white inset }

100% {  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #3cdfdf;  border:2px aqua inset  }

}

.inputfield:focus{

-webkit-animation-name: pulsate;

-webkit-animation-duration: 1.5s;

-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;

-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 30px  #3cdfdf;

box-shadow: 0px 0px 30px #3cdfdf;

}

And lastly, we’ll work on the jQuery. This part of the tutorial can actually be considered as optional since it simply adds a black background to set off the highlighted input field (see comparison image below).

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If you’d like to include it in your design then just copy/paste this code in to your .js file:

$(document).ready(function(){ 

var globalParent=null;

var mouse_is_inside=false;

/*The snippet below is activated when an inputfield is focused*/

$(‘.inputfield’).focus(function(){

globalParent=$(this).parent(‘div’);

globalParent.click();

});

/*This following part will be activated when the inputfield loses focus*/

$(‘.inputfield’).blur(function(){

globalParent.click();

});

/*Following part will be activated when the user clicks anywhere inside

the container div of the inputfield*/

$(‘.field’).click(function(){

if(!($(this).is(‘.dummy’))){

$(‘.dummy’).css(‘background-color’,'gray’);

$(‘.dummy label’).css(‘color’,'white’);

$(‘.dummy’).removeClass(‘dummy’);

$(this).css(‘background-color’,'black’);

$(this).children(‘label’).css(‘color’,'#3cdfdf’);

$(this).addClass(‘dummy’);

}

});

/*The following code checks time and again whether the mouse is inside the form or not*/

$(‘form’).hover(function(){

mouse_is_inside=true;

},

function(){

mouse_is_inside=false;

}

);

/*If user clicks anywhere outside the form, all highlighting is removed*/

$(‘body’).click(function(){

if(!mouse_is_inside)

{

$(‘.field’).css(‘background-color’,'gray’);

$(‘.field label’).css(‘color’,'white’);

$(‘.dummy’).removeClass(‘dummy’);

}

});

});

And that concludes this tutorial. Try to run or open your HTML and see if it’ll work on your browser. I personally have only tested it in the latest version of Chrome and IE9, and the blinking effect doesn’t work in IE9. Yet. Still, I hope you enjoy this one!

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How to Create a Slideshow Plugin with jQuery – This slideshow makes use of a jQuery plugin called Powerslide.

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Elastic Image Slideshow with Thumbnail Preview – Here’s a really cool slideshow that automatically adjusts according to the size of the browser window (read: responsive web pages) with the little help of JavaScript and CSS.

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Bubble Slideshow Effect with jQuery – This very easy-to-use and customizable slideshow will give your site visitors a unique and interesting way of viewing your image gallery.

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Fullscreen Slideshow with HTML5 Audio and jQuery – This particular slideshow uses the Vegas jQuery plugin, the jQuery easing plugin, and the jScrollPane. The tutorial also includes the addition of sound to add a little bit of atmosphere with the help of the HTML5 audio element and a JavaScript audio library called Buzz.

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Photoflip slideshow effect with jQuery – Here’s a slideshow that uses both jQuery and CSS3 to flip through a stack of images. It’s set on automatic but if you’d like the images to flip only with mouse clicks, the tutorial also provides you a way to be able to do that too.

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Flickr-powered Slideshow – This particular slideshow plugin uses Flickr’s APIs and YQL to fetch photosets from your Flickr account.

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Flickrgallery – You just got to hand it to the guys at Flickr for developing its own slideshow gallery plugins, which is why it’s such a huge hit among hobbyists and professional photographers alike.  (Click here for demo).

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Gallerific – Here’s an awesome plugin that can handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth. It will showcase the images with minor modifications or design adjustments (Click here for demo).

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s3Slider jQuery Plugin – If you want to place one of your images in the header section of your page or you want your images to include text that will link to internal pages then you might want to check out this plugin. (Click here for demo).

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Supersized – If you want to immediately showcase your photo gallery by making it fill out almost the whole screen then you might want to try out this plugin (click here for demo). One cool aspect of this plugin is that it maintains the images’ dimension ratio.

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/web-design/10-nifty-image-slideshow-effects-with-jquery/feed/ 0 Rcarousel: A Continuous jQuery UI Carousel http://blogfreakz.com/web-design/rcarousel-a-continuous-jquery-ui-carousel/ http://blogfreakz.com/web-design/rcarousel-a-continuous-jquery-ui-carousel/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:50:41 +0000 Keith@Blogfreakz http://blogfreakz.com/?p=24115 55m35 Rcarousel: A Continuous jQuery UI Carousel

Before you toss this off as just another slider review, check out this innovative content slider and carousel made with jQuery, called the rcarousel.

Created by front-end developer Wojciech rrh Ryrych, this continuous carousel is basically a jQuery UI widget which latest version (v1.1) was just released recently. Its inherent capabilities from its predecessor include custom events and a simple API.

Rcarousel supports HTML content: just place anything inside a DIV container, install the widget, and that’s it. It is highly customizable and allows the user to navigate through the content with bullets or set the scrolling to auto mode without navigation.

What sets this carousel from the others is that it has the multi carousel feature!

Check out the demo. Cool, isn’t it?

You can customize the rcarousel’s appearance by indicating the number of visible elements and a step (number of elements to scroll by). Another nice feature is loading elements on demand at runtime via API. With little effort you can fetch XML, JSON, parse them and then add elements with ‘append’ method.

Its other features are:
• Many options to choose from
• Simple to use
• Supports IMG images with links
• Auto mode
• Custom pagination

Rcarousel supports many browsers and has been tested successfully in the following:
• Internet Explorer 7+
• Firefox 3.0+
• Chrome
• Opera 10.10+
• Safari 4.0.5+

Click on the following links to download the rcarousel or its source code, and if needed, to report bugs.

If you enjoyed this carousel, you may also want to consider using Ryrych’s jQuery UI mediabox, called
rlightbox2 .

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/web-design/rcarousel-a-continuous-jquery-ui-carousel/feed/ 1 How to Integrate your WordPress blog into Facebook http://blogfreakz.com/others/how-to-integrate-your-wordpress-blog-into-facebook/ http://blogfreakz.com/others/how-to-integrate-your-wordpress-blog-into-facebook/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:13:18 +0000 Nancy http://blogfreakz.com/?p=22227 Integrating your WordPress blog on Facebook is easily accomplished by using the Facebook API. Programmers are able to use the Facebook API for making applications that are available to all members. This allows Facebook users or friends to see new posts from your blog whenever they sign in, and they can easily follow comments too, thus making your blog even more accessible!

To give your blog a life on Facebook, first you will need to setup a new application which will require you to sign up as a developer and also install the WPBook Plugin on your WordPress blog.

facebook developers How to Integrate your WordPress blog into Facebook
Create an Application on FaceBook
Login on your FaceBook  account and click Create New App button

blogfreakz app How to Integrate your WordPress blog into Facebook

Once you have agreed to the terms of use, give your application a name. Then you will receive your API key and a secret, which you will need later.
Setup your Apps

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Installing and configuring WPBook Plugins on WordPress
Installing the plugins on Plugins – Add New

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Configure WPBook with your Apps FaceBook API on Settings – WPBook

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Checking your blog on Facebook
Open your Canvas Page URL using your favorite web browser on:
http://apps.facebook.com/yourAppsName
ex: http://apps.facebook.com/blogfreakz

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/others/how-to-integrate-your-wordpress-blog-into-facebook/feed/ 1 Create “Who is online” widget http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/create-who-is-online-widget/ http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/create-who-is-online-widget/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:55:53 +0000 Mufti Ali http://blogfreakz.com/?p=3957 Tutorialzine has writen article and teach us how to create “Who is online” widget with PHP, MySQL & jQuery. It will display the number of visitors, currently viewing your site, and  it will even be able to detect the country our  visitors are from and display it in a slide out panel.

whoisonline Create Who is online widget

All of the widget data is stored into the tz_who_is_online table. It consists of six fields (or columns). The first one – ID, is a standard primary key / auto increment field. After this is the IP field which stores the visitor’s IP address (converted to a integer beforehand with the ip2long PHP function).

The widget features a slick slide-out panel with all the geolocation data, shown on mouse over. Having access to real time data on your site userbase is a dream to any webmaster. Tools like Google Analytics give a great perspective on your our site’s reach, but lack the real time feel a simple widget like this can provide.

Requirements: PHP, MySQL, jQuery Framework
Demo: http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2010/03/who-is-online-widget…
License: License Free

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/tutorial/create-who-is-online-widget/feed/ 0 CakePHP Facebook plugin http://blogfreakz.com/cakephp/cakephp-facebook-plugin/ http://blogfreakz.com/cakephp/cakephp-facebook-plugin/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:29:19 +0000 Mufti Ali http://blogfreakz.com/?p=3388 Facebook CakePHP plugin created by nick on webtechnick. The purpose of this plugin is  provide a seamless way to connect your cakePHP app to Facebook. The goal for this plugin is to not only provide extremely useful dynamic features but to also provide a complete interface to the Facebook API. This plugin is specifically for CakePHP 1.3

facebook plugin CakePHP Facebook plugin

Feature List
  • Full featured authentication via Facebook Connect. Facebook Authentication will work with or without a user login system already in place on your site. Works seamlessly with your already built in user authentication system via AuthComponent -OR- Facebook Connect can work as your primary authentication system.
    • Setup is as easy as dropping Facebook.Connect into your components array.
  • Easily create dynamic and customizable Facebook content
    • Share (let your users share what they find on your site with their friends
    • Login/Logout (Facebook users can login and logout of your site with a single click.. no registration required)
    • Fan Boxes (Allow users to become facebook fans of your site)
    • Profile Pictures (Display a facebook profile picture)
    • Live Streams (Create dynamic live stream events)
    • Comments (Connect with your users by allowing them to comment on any part of your site through Facebook
  • Access to Facebook API anywhere in your app. Build custom content with direct access to the full Facebook API.
  • Everything is included. No need to download the Facebook API files or create Facebook specific files like xd_receiver.htm and the like. Everything is included in the plugin and will be maintained.

To get started you’ll first need to download and unpack the Facebook Plugin into your app/plugins/facebook directory. If you plan on using any features (except the share feature, which will work with no further configuration), you will need to get an api_key and secret from Facebook.

Requirements: CakePHP 1.3, PHP5+
Website: http://www.webtechnick.com/blogs/view/229/CakePHP_Facebook_Plugin..
Docs: CakePHP Facebook Plugin API

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/cakephp/cakephp-facebook-plugin/feed/ 4 TweetPhoto Objective-C – Objective-C library for TweetPhoto API http://blogfreakz.com/api/tweetphoto-objective-c-objective-c-library-for-tweetphoto-api/ http://blogfreakz.com/api/tweetphoto-objective-c-objective-c-library-for-tweetphoto-api/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:48:04 +0000 Mufti Ali http://blogfreakz.com/?p=3212 The TweetPhoto Objective-C library is a set of drop in classes designed to allow developers to get up and running quickly with the TweetPhoto Photo Sharing API.This library includes every feature you’ll need to manage the entire photo sharing experience within your application – from uploading photos, commenting, favoritng, and voting to social feeds, user feeds, and everything in between.

Before You Start You should be familiar with the TweetPhoto REST API, found here. You should also sign up and obtain a TweetPhoto API Key, here. In order to use the TweetPhoto Objective-C library, you will need to download the TPAPITest project, and drag the Group Named TweetPhoto into your project.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/tweetphoto-api-objective-c/
API Documentation: http://groups.google.com/group/tweetphoto/web

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]]> http://blogfreakz.com/api/tweetphoto-objective-c-objective-c-library-for-tweetphoto-api/feed/ 0 Twitter4J – Java library for TwitterAPI http://blogfreakz.com/api/twitter4j-java-library-for-twitterapi/ http://blogfreakz.com/api/twitter4j-java-library-for-twitterapi/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:20:18 +0000 Mufti Ali http://blogfreakz.com/?p=3103 Twitter4J is a Java library for TwitterAPI. With Twitter4J, you can easily integrate your Java application with the Twitter service.

twitter4j Twitter4J Java library for TwitterAPI
To implement this library is pretty simple ,just add twitter4j-2.1.0-core.jar to your application classpath. If you are familiar with Java language, looking at the JavaDoc should be the shortest way for you to get started.
twitter4j.Twitter class is the one you may want to look at first.
Features

  • 100% Pure Java – works on any Java Platform version 1.4.2 or later
  • Works on Android platform (from Version 2.1.0)
  • Zero dependency : No additional jars required
  • Built-in OAuth support
  • Out-of-the-box gzip support for faster performance

Requirement: OS: Windows or any flavor of Unix that supports Java, JVM: Java 1.4.2 or late
Download: http://twitter4j.org/en/index.html#download
Code example: http://twitter4j.org/en/code-examples.html
License: BSD License

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