Do you want to use an API but you are too lazy to write your own code to handle the requests? If you code in PHP as I do, then you will definitely need these classes. By using the classes listed here you will be able of using a great number of web services with an easy and documented way.
PEAR
We couldn’t write a post about PHP classes without PEAR. PEAR stands for “PHP Extension and Application Repository” and the Web Services category is the place to get ready made classes for:
- Akismet
- Amazon
- Blogging
- Compete
- Delicious
- Digg
- eBay
- Yahoo
- Youtube
and many more.
Even though PEAR is a great resource for web services related classes, sometimes you might want to use another class that doesn’t rely on PEAR to do the job or a more sophisticated one. The list that follows has PHP classes for different web services.
Alexa
Amazon
Babelfish
Bit.ly
Bing
DeviantArt
Digg
Drop.io
eBay
- Facebook Notification Class
- Facebook Application Developer
- Facebook Official PHP Class
- Inbox Handler
- Open Inviter
Feeds
Flickr
FriendFeed
- FriendFeed API (Deprecated. Libs for PHP use the v1 API)
Gravatar
ICQ
Last.fm
MSN
Prowl
reCAPTCHA
Skype
- Twitter PHP Class
- php-twitter
- My Twitter
- TwitterLib
- Twitter Client
- CodeIgniter Twitter Lib
- Twitter Async
Various Networks
Yahoo
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Very helpful. Thanks for such a nice collection.
Thanks! I just checked your blog and it is already bookmarked :D
thanks!! really great collection of php classes.
Awesome collection. Stumbled.
Great list! Thanks!
You forgot a good one:
xmpphp (http://code.google.com/p/xmpphp/)
This library allows you to access any Jabber 1.0 server (GoogleTalk, LJ Talk, jabber.org, etc.), supports TLS encryption, and allows several XML processing approaches and supported styles (process indefinitely, processUntil an event, processTime for a number of seconds).
Thanks for your addition and your mini showcase of xmpphp!!! It is always nice people to add resources with comments. This is the way of expanding our knowledge and sharing!
You forgot a GREAT Twitter Stream API one called Phirehose. It’s by far the most useful twitter api I’ve found.
http://code.google.com/p/phirehose/
Not a pure php api, but an aggregator code for combining the different ip to geolocation porviders: http://united-coders.com/christian-harms/combining-http-and-javascript-apis-with-php
You have not mentioned the Zend_Service_* classes of Zend Framework or any other framework :)
Thanks for you list !
Nothing about Xbox live or PSN Network ?
How about the Zend Framework, it has the default implementations for Google APIs among others
and Youtube ? where is the link ?
@Stephen The Zend framework is full of APIs to use. I just placed a link to gdata but someone should really look into it for more.
Good collection API. Thanks!