Having been involved with Blogger since before they had Pro accounts (I paid the $40 even though I was offered a freebie to support Ev and Co.), which was long before Google bought the company, and having co-authored of one of the earliest PHP libraries for the original Blogger API, I was very pleased to see today’s announcement by Google of first class support for PHP in the GData Developer’s Guide.
Python, .Net and Java have been part of the DevGuide since it was opened (AFAIR) and I always wondered why PHP got left, since Zend has long had the necessary open source code available via the Zend Framework. The Googlers are institutionally tight-lipped so an answer on that is unlikely to come out. Anyway, the support is out now, which is great.
The GData API is Google’s ATOM-based interface for programmatically connecting to Blogger as well as many other web services offered by the web giant, including Calendar, Code Search, Picasa and Spreadsheets. I use it on BillSaysThis mainly to supply content for the Book Reviews page, which is fairly simplistic, but other people have written full-blown interactive blogging clients with it.
Big thumbs up to the Blogger team for today’s release.
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