Comments on: AJAX JSON and Accessibility

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:29:55 +0000

My bad -
Scratch the “echo $G_json;” — For a funny reason, I do some processing on the server side, then handle markup and presentation with client-side scripts. The code below it was commented-out.

Also, it looks like my html markup got eaten.
Anyway, you can do most anything with SimpleXML easier, so if they expose an XML API, that’s probably the way to go.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:58:45 +0000

Is it the TOS for those APIs that limits you to server-side, or simply the inclusion of a javascript wrapper?

[$Gstring contains a well-formed URL]

$G_json = file_get_contents($Gstring);

echo $G_json;

$G_json = str_replace(”var _GBSBookInfo =”,”",$G_json);

$G_json = str_replace(”;”,”",$G_json);

$G_json = str_replace(”\\x26″,”&”,$G_json);

$G_json = trim($G_json);

$value = new Services_JSON(SERVICES_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE);

$G_data= $value->decode($G_json);

foreach ($G_data as $v1)

{

if($v1['preview'] == “full” && strlen($v1['thumbnail_url']) > 1)

{

echo “\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n”;

}

else if($v1['preview'] == “partial” && strlen($v1['thumbnail_url']) > 1)

{

echo “\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n”;

}

It’s a mess, but it handles GBS on the server side…

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:43:35 +0000

Jonathan,
Let me know how that works out. My understanding is that it is limited to client-side for load reasons. I can understand being worried about load issue, but I don’t understand why a client-side script would create less load issues than a server-side script. Any thoughts from others on this?

By: Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:24:50 +0000

Heh, if you understand why this is, can you let the rest of us in?

This is continually frustrating to me too, for a variety of reasons. I think I plan to _try_ using the GBS API from the server-side, even though it’s not entirely clear whether Google wants me to or not at present.