Evan Sims’ Blog: Announcing libGameFly
Original post provide by PHP FreaksEvan Sims has official released his first version of a library he’s worked up to interface PHP with the GameFly.com video game rental service:
I’m releasing libGameFly, a PHP class for interacting with GameFly.com the video game rental service. At the moment it’s very simple, just allowing you to expose your GameFly queue as a native PHP class and doing… well, whatever the hell you want with it.
It works with some of the feed functionality (RSS/APIs) to grab data about users’ accounts. You can download the code here from the project’s Google Code page.
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XML
The class can load XML documents from files or text strings. It turns the document tags into keys of a nested associative array. The resulting array is stored in a class variable. It can also take an array with the document structure and generate a XML document.