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The Daylife Cookbook is a collection of recipes to help you bootstrap applications that use the Daylife platform (DayPI).
These recipes come from Daylifers and the cookbook community, with entries ranging from sample code to tutorials, half baked ideas, and spotlights of the latest deployments of the DayPI.
Feel free to share, steal, criticize, applaud, and feed back!
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Daylife is a perfect fit for our strategy of presenting the best and most tightly focused content, whether it is produced by us at USA TODAY or anywhere else on the Web. It helps us provide our readers with a full 360-degree view of a given topic, and adds depth and richness to niche areas important to our readers and advertisers.- Jeff Webber, SVP, USAToday.com
You guys have what seems like an amazingly powerful and easy to use API, we're pretty excited about playing with it and possibly integrating it with Hubdub. - Tom Griffith, Hubdub.com
It's amazing how simple this is to integrate into django. When a view is creating a page, it just calls a thin wrapper function that I put around the daypi module. - Bracket Boy
I found the Daylife API for PHP really easy to use, and coded something up quickly for my site, Brooklyn and Beyond - Brooklyn & Beyond
This tool makes it really easy to get a quick look or dive in deep thanks to our partner Daylife, who built a comprehensive service that yields up-to-the-minute results - The Washington Post
I was trying to make it work by using Google News RSS feeds but turned out impossible since they don't organize their data in the feeds. I now know its possible with the Daylife API - Akash Xavier
samples
Proxy in PHP for your widgets to talk to the DayPI
May 16 2008 - 13:49 By vineetApplications written as Java applets, Flash or Javascript widgets often face security issues where they cannot talk to a data source which does not have the same domain name as the one where they get served from. For example, if you are going to host a flash widget on http://example.com, your flash securtiy settings will normally not let you talk to any data source that is not hosted on http://example.com.
There are workarounds using crossdomain files to solve someo of these problems. However, we do not support a crossdomain file for our freeapi.daylife.com domain that lets your widget read data from anywhere.
To work-around these security issues, you need a proxy that you can host on the same domain as your widget and that proxies all DayPI calls.
Read more below to learn how to use this proxy.
