Yahoo stock ticker
Yahoo stock ticker help.yahoo.com
Yahoo widgets are desktop applications that run in the Yahoo widget desktop application
The Yahoo Tools & Reference page for Yahoo! Widgets. is 404; seems a bit shady.
Konfabulator 2.1 for windowless widget desktop environment
discussion with Doug B
7/11/2013 Doug B to Rob R:
Pat Mullen said you might be a good person to point me in the right direction. Long story short:
- SplashTV stock widget breaks all SplashTVs
-Third party vendor provided fix but requires us to host a php file on a server
- Nate Powell says he cannot provide a solution
- Bill Tierno states and we tested together php file on whole intranet/rhythmyx server - not supported
- Scott Eddy (Support Owner of SplashTV) is not sure what to do
- I put in an SDOnline ticket requesting a server or VM to host php file
Nick Santillo wants to know when we can provide solution.
The server stuff is beyond my knowledge and access. Any thoughts as to who can help me or how to get a php file hosted?
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Thank you for your quick response. The previous problem was that we had 60+ Flash Widgets calling out to Yahoo at the same time and Yahoo would eventually reject the IP address and crash the widget and then the TVs.
So the fix idea is to have one file grab the data from Yahoo and then the Flash Widgets get the stock data from that. The PHP file runs a script every few minutes that grabs AW stock info from Yahoo. Then the Flash Widgets on the SplashTVs call out to the php file to get the stock info and display it.
Here are the files I was provided and the directions for a php enabled server. I was also provided with a Wamp Server solution if you want to see that.
[attachment "stock_awk.zip" deleted by Michael A Leaning/SERVCO/AWWSC]
Please see below are some directions to help get things started for updating the stock widget to pull information from the text file.
/var/www/html/stock_awk/
The following files should be placed in the directory listed above:
YahooFinance (folder)
YahooFinanceAPI.php
get_stock_data_awk.php
stock_awk.js
You can also place a copy of the (stock_awk.swf) in that folder for testing purposes.
stock_awk.swf is the widget you will place in your presentation for deployment.
get_stock_data_awk.php will need to be setup in a Cron Job so it will update the stock_awk.js.
The files I am providing now are temporary and will not work until the stock_awk.swf is updated with the proper url pointing to the location of the stock_awk.js.
What I am looking for will look something like this:http://10.10.10.24/stock_awk/stock_awk.js
10.10.10.24 will be replaced with the IP or domain of your web server where the files will accessed.
7/12/2013 discussion with Doug B
purchased stock widget $6k from vendor
want to keep the widget, it is customized for AW with styel
splashtv runs on Cisco appliances, stock ticker widget runs in the appliance
vendor has provided a php server app that will make retrieve stock information from yahoo and serve it to the widgets
once it is installed, need to provide the php host information to the vendor to configure the widgets to connect
option for WAMP server also
PHP should only require a web server; how to configure and install?
http://us1.php.net/manual/en/install.general.php
most linux distributions come with php, or we can install on windows server
"in case of setting up the server and PHP on your own, you have two choices for the method of connecting PHP to the server. For many servers PHP has a direct module interface (also called SAPI). These servers include Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Netscape and iPlanet servers. Many other servers have support for ISAPI, the Microsoft module interface (OmniHTTPd for example). If PHP has no module support for your web server, you can always use it as a CGI or FastCGI processor. This means you set up your server to use the CGI executable of PHP to process all PHP file requests on the server."