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Facebook Connect button alone can pretty much collect all the information we need from user. But sometimes we need to collect additional information during the registration, such as favorite Color, number of kittens, movie star name etc. To collect such information, we can use Facebook Registration Plugin. Instead of just showing Facebook Registration plugin, we will use Facebook Login button and call Registration plugin later. To make it even better I have used colorbox by Jack Moore.
Ajax file uploader is useful web tool, which is actually very easy to create with jQuery and PHP, and with new HTML5 FileReader API support, we can do client side file validation before even uploading the file to server. Today we are going to combine all these web features to make an Ajax based file uploader, which can be easily integrated into any HTML forms.
This tutorial focuses on letting your users upload and save file information in the database using PHP. To achieve this we only need two files, an HTML upload form, and a process page. HTML form allows user choose a file, and when user clicks on upload button, process page will upload the file to the server.
Microsoft Live Connect provides many API features, you can use info in Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft SkyDrive. The most significant thing you probably want to do is get user profile information, enable user to sign/register in your website, personalize experience etc. To take advantage of these API features we need to create an app. In this article, we are going to create a Microsoft application easily.
