book

Developing with Google+

by Jennifer Murphy

September 2012

Intermediate to advanced

104 pages

2h 20m

English

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Conventions Used in This BookUsing Code ExamplesSafari® Books OnlineHow to Contact UsAcknowledgments
Things You May RecognizeThings That May Be New to YouExplore the API
The +1 ButtonAdding the +1 ButtonCustomizing the +1 ButtonCustomizing Your SnippetLeveraging the CallbackSpecial Considerations for AJAX ApplicationsTroubleshooting the +1 ButtonThe BadgeAdding the BadgePerformance Tuning Social PluginsAsynchronous LoadingExplicit RenderingDelayed RenderingKeeping Up to Date
Integrating Google+ CommentsExperiment with the APIsClient LibrariesRegistering Your ApplicationTime to CodeComments Integration in ActionWhat’s Next?
New Application: Baking Disasters 2.0Authentication Using Google+OAuth 2.0Accounts and API KeysA Little More About OAuth 2.0Starter ProjectsBringing it TogetherLocking Stuff DownA Preview of the Sign-in ButtonMaking Baking Disasters SocialImport Disasters from Google+A Preview of the History APIBest Practices
Potluck Party PlannerArchitecture of a Hangout AppHosting a Hangout AppStarting with a Starter ProjectConvert the Starter Project to PHPRun the Starter ProjectCollaborative PlanningRecipe and Ingredient REST APIsHangout App InterfaceHangout App StartupShared State and HTML ManipulationsAdd Reminder SharingMedia APIsOther Hangout APIsPublishing

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Chapter 4. OAuth-Enabled APIs

JavaScript plugins, like the comment plugin from Chapter 3, allow you to move beyond the official social plugins, but the depth of integration that they provide is limited. As you move on to deeper integration, some processing must be done server-side. To accommodate this, further examples are written in PHP. You will need to an environment capable of running PHP and a SQLite database.

The Google+ platform is not limited to PHP. You can find client libraries and starter projects for many popular languages including Java, Python, .NET, and Ruby. If Google does not supply an official client library for your language of choice, you may still use the REST APIs directly.

New Application: Baking Disasters 2.0

Baking Disasters is fun to publish as a static HTML blog, but as time passes visitors have started to express a desire to contribute their baking experiences. Being a social baker with a streak of PHP ability, this seems like the perfect opportunity to transform Baking Disasters into a social web application where everyone can contribute.

After one night of frenzied PHP hacking, Baking Disasters 2.0, as pictured in Figure 4-1, was born. It consists of an administration page for managing recipes and a public page for each recipe where visitors can publish their hilarious baking disasters.