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New API Features

August 15, 2008

Hello fellow dev-heads, it has been a while since we updated this blog and a lot has happened since the last post. Our site and the Myxer platform are growing at a great pace and we are feverishly adding new features and functions to support the growing demand for our services. All good news!

Our APIs have also had some work done to them to make it easier to deliver content to mobiles phones. I’m excited to announce that we have introduced a new API which allows partners to send their content directly to the phone without needed to go to myxer.com to finish the delivery. This is great news for partners that want a clean user experience with total control of where the user goes on their site. With more control comes more responsibility for partner sites. There are some new guidelines on how to use it.

Another change in our platform is that we now use categories instead of genres. This is to make it easier for users to find the music they like. Genres are still supported for backward compatibility but we recommend you start using the categories on our site for better results on searches.

Last thing I wanted to mention was that we have updated our .NET and PHP client libraries to support the latest APIs changes. If you have not done so, I highly recommend downloading these libraries and using them when integrating with Myxer – they are quite the time-savers.

Until next time, good luck and happy Mobilizing!

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PHP Client Library Update

December 5, 2007

API method call wrappers have been added for wallpapers and videos. Be aware, however, that currently only MyxerIndie profiles can add video content. All content manipulation methods use a common method that takes care of printing debug messages and calling lower level functionality to sign, build, and send requests. Uncommon parameters are passed to Myxer->ContentCreate() as the last argument. Now that boolean values can be sent, I also had to make sure bools are encoded in the query string and the data string that gets signed correctly.

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PHP Client Library

December 3, 2007

If you’re a PHP developer and have an API key from us to integrate the Myxer platform into your website, you will find this open source project useful: https://sourceforge.net/projects/myxerapi-php5 It saves you the trouble of having to do the communication work to talk with our public API. Just provide your API key and secret and you can manage content and profiles from your own server-side code. It has recently been updated to use the new API method calls (myxer.*.*) and has cleaner function names now. More features will be coming in the future. Contact us if you have made your own improvements and want to commit your changes to the SourceForge repository.