eBay API
authentication tokens, 201–202
categories
detail level, 215
displaying, 218–219
items for sale, retrieving, 219–221
organizing, 214–215
retrieving, 216–218
secondary, 233
site ID, 215–216
development account, 200–201
GET request, 210–211
listing items
adding first item, 228–232
application data, adding, 234
described, 225–226
enhancements, 234
image, adding, 232–233
nested elements, handling with generateBody(), 226–227
official time, obtaining, HTTPS, 210–211
Picture Services system, 232
registering, 199–200
reserve price, 233
REST
basic search access, 202–206
choosing, 199
prices, displaying, 208–209
quick search, creating, 207–210
results, skipping, 208
search in human-readable format, 206–207
Sandbox account, 201
searches
basic, 222–223
within category, 223–225
SOAP
body of request, generating, 213
completing request, 213–214
general caller, 210–211
getTime request, simplified, 214
eBay Stores Inventory, 205
elements
choosing, 27
plain text versus HTML encoded data, 27
repeating, 27
use of, 26
UTF-8
encoding, 27
XML, 11
ellipses (…), 37
address
PayPal transaction search by, 257–258
RSS feed, 322
FedEx notification, 189
headers, 55–56
mailing list, 54–56
employees, paying by PayPal, 258–260
empty space
HTML, 15
regex search, 41
enclosures, Web feeds, retrieving and storing, 33–34
encoded data, plain text versus, HTML, 27
encodingStyle namespace, Google, 118–119
encrypting, PayPal, 239–240
entities, XML, 13–14
&entity identifier, 13
errors
Amazon, 161
database access functions (common_db.php), 316–317
Del.icio.us, 282
Google, SOAP protocol, checking, 125–126
responses
messages, 301–302
numbers, 301
Tidy
displaying with output, 51
saving to file, 52
escape function, Google, 131
estimateIsExact element, Google, 119
Explode function, 135–136
Express, FedEx, 182
eXtensible Markup Language. See XML