CTO, PHP Programmer, Affiliate Marketer & IT Consultant
Being a programmer, and a lazy resourceful person, I love automation, and streamlining as many daily processes as possible. Sometimes a task is so simple, we just do it without thinking. That’s especially true if automating it can take one or more days. But, there’s more than just those 8 minutes you spend every day downloading some stats.
I had a need to get some data that wasn’t available in the merchant’s datafeed, and since I wasn’t going to be putting a huge burden on the merchant’s site (ie: if you scrape, be nice*) I decided to write a little scraper to do so.
In this script, I’m using all, pure PHP functions: cURL, Document Object Model, SimpleXML. By using PHP’s built-in functions, the script will be as portable and efficient as possible.
At the time of writing this, Facebook’s Like
(or Share
) button acts the same as sharing or posting a URL to your wall, except you don’t have the chance to leave a comment or choose which image to include with the post.
If you post a link to your wall, Facebook will guess at which images on the page may be best suitable for the page, and allow you to choose from several of them
After reading an interesting post by Ring Revenue, I started thinking where QR Codes could be used to generate Pay-Per-Call leads. Facebook, of course, came to mind.