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Re: Goodbye PayPal, Hello Box - Jonathan LeBlanc - Developer Advocate

Eswar Rajesh Pinapala — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:18:36 -0000

It was a great journey and I wish you all the best John!

Re: Working with the eBay Finding API

Jay Lepore — Sun, 26 May 2013 21:38:41 -0000

I spent a lot of time trying to use your finding.php class. I'm grateful for the code. However, I everytime your class tried to run the getCurrentVersion code an error would be returned Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in
After many attempts I reworked the function code to appear as:

private function getCurrentVersion(){
$uri = sprintf("%s?OPERATION-NAME=getVersion&SECURITY-APPNAME=%s&RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=%s",
$this->uri_finding,
$this->appid,
$this->format);
$response = $this->curl($uri);
$decoded=json_decode($response, true);
return $decoded['getVersionResponse'][0]['version'][0];
// return json_decode($response->getVersionResponse[0]->version[0]);
}

This cured the problem. I thought ok, the missing 'true' for associative array must be the problem with your json_decode call. However, modifying your code and inserting true did not work. However the above code does.

Your thoughts?

Jay
CompuMatter

Re: Upgrading Your Auth System from OAuth 2 to OpenID Connect

John Wright — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:37:35 -0000

While the OpenId Connect flow is great, I recently banged my head against the desk for a week because of one seemingly glaring mistep in the PayPal implementation: scope=openid...

According to http://openid.net/specs/ope..., openid in the scope should be required, right? And https://developer.paypal.co... says to pass "openid" as a minimum.

Here was my problem. The login screen kept redirecting to my redirect URL with an invalid scope error in the querystring. I removed openid, and it's redirecting now. WTH? I'm hoping this is just a weird disconnect between my API profile and the implementation, but, on the other hand, it looks more like the endpoint is flawed. How did I find this? I went back to the basics; I got rid of the advanced callback handler for my application and used the button generator for Login with Paypal. I removed openid from the values, and it started working. I removed the attribute from my MVC auth module, and it's also working.

If this gets "fixed" by requiring the attribute (per the standard), my application will be broken because I have removed the attribute! How would PayPal notify developers if this gets fixed (in the interest of prior proper planning so our sites don't go down?) Thanks!

Re: Working with the eBay Finding API

Guest — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:53:27 -0000

How would I then set up a for each statement to pull the content and echo the images / titles of items within the category query?

Re: Creating a New Eclipse Toolbar Plugin (Part 2): Customizing the Menu

Pugazhsami — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:00:58 -0000

Excellent information, Its working very well for me.

Re: New Reddit SDK in PHP

jcleblanc — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:06:48 -0000

I agree, but unfortunately in all of the API documentation that I was parsing through I only found support for simple auth (username / password). I didn't see any support for mechanisms like OAuth / OAuth 2 / OpenID / OpenID Connect that would use a token based system rather than a straight username and password.

If there's something I've missed though please let me know and I'll inject it into the code.

- Jon

Re: New Reddit SDK in PHP

Theodore R. Smith — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:42:31 -0000

I wish there was an alternative to having the user submit their reddit username and password!

Re: Creating a New Eclipse Toolbar Plugin (Part 2): Customizing the Menu

jcleblanc — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:33:43 -0000

Just to make sure I have the issue correct - you want to have a plugin that will display dynamically generated code to the plugin user? I have a plugin that I was working on that does that and I was planning to place it in another blog post (that I have been neglecting to post for a while). I'll see what I can put together to cover the steps.

Re: Lessons Learned in Eclipse Plugin Development on Mac OS X 10.6.8

jcleblanc — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:29:12 -0000

Were you seeing the "Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM" error or was it something else that came up?

Re: Creating a New Eclipse Toolbar Plugin (Part 2): Customizing the Menu

VVK — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:55:24 -0000

Hi Jonathan,

I am developing an eclipse plugin that would generate the code in eclipse...I am unaware about how to generate the code in eclipse editor..If you have any suggestions, could you let me know them pls??

Re: Lessons Learned in Eclipse Plugin Development on Mac OS X 10.6.8

braden — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:04:11 -0000

I get an error "

annot run Java in 32 bit mode. Continuing in 64 bit mode."

Re: Creating a New Eclipse Toolbar Plugin (Part 2): Customizing the Menu

VVK — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:24:56 -0000

Jonathan,

It was a wonderful post...Thanks for it...

Re: Programming Social Applications: An Identity Approach (session audio & slides from SXSWi)

jcleblanc — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:14:08 -0000

Apologies for the late reply - you can always reach me on Twitter quickly at @jcleblanc . It could be a configuration issue with the core environment. What are the errors that you were encountering?

Re: List of OExchange Service Provider XRD Files

Sento Segarra — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:37:09 -0000

http://www.upnews.es/oexcha...

Re: Programming Social Applications: An Identity Approach (session audio & slides from SXSWi)

Luca Rocchietti — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:48:58 -0000

I have great problems installing shindig on mac. Could u please help me?
I read your book and followed step by step your instructions but it doesn't seem to work.

Re: List of OExchange Service Provider XRD Files

jcleblanc — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:37:40 -0000

Thanks Fotodispalle - I added it to the post.

Re: List of OExchange Service Provider XRD Files

Fotodispalle — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:46:59 -0000

Here's another one:

http://perlinco.com/oexchan...

Re: Creating a New Eclipse Toolbar Plugin (Part 1)

Alan Gunning — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:07:48 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Building a Single Sign On (SSO) Solution into Two or More Drupal 7.x Sites

jcleblanc — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:24:27 -0000

Glad to try to help out - I'm definitely not a Drupal expert but I can give you a hand with the error if you'd like. What's the exact error that you're seeing?

Regarding the dot at the end of the prefix elements, from what I was reading the prefixes needed to have the dot at the end to denote a separate database instance, else the db name and db table would run into one long string. Can you point me to the doc that talks about the requirement for the database array to be created prior to connecting?

- Jon

Re: Building a Single Sign On (SSO) Solution into Two or More Drupal 7.x Sites

GAMe — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:06:35 -0000

Hi, I am currently attempting this in D7 but when I add the prefixes I get a PDOException and it fails. Did you mean to have the .'s (dots) at the end of the database names on your prefix syntax? I am looking at the Drupal 7 documentation and it looks like it is different and said that a database arra for all databases must be created first in order to connect to them. This felt easier in D6 i think, but thanks for putting this page together it is pointing me in a direction :-)

Re: Coupling YUI and YQL to build JavaScript Widgets

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Re: Leaving Yahoo!

saurabhsahni — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:16:05 -0000

Jon, You will be missed in Yahoo! Best of luck with the new gig!

Re: Leaving Yahoo!

David Calhoun — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:17:54 -0000

Good luck and congrats, man! RIP YDN :(

Re: MySpace PHP API – 20 friend maximum return bug fix

jcleblanc — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:43:30 -0000

The last time I checked it was working (but mind you this was about 8 months ago), and the patch should also work as well...but again that was the last time I checked ;)

Re: MySpace PHP API – 20 friend maximum return bug fix

mshehab — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:38:27 -0000

Does the unofficial implementation work ? and is that patch working? Thank you..