Applications and Tutorials

This section is dedicated to providing sample applications which use the web service. These will eventually be the subject of tutorials and can be used as jumping-off points for your own projects.

Please note that these, like the rest of this site, are works in progress.

Spreadshirt created an open source licensed shop in flash that can be downloaded and modified to create your own custom shop using their services. Unfortunately it never really worked as far as I could tell so I'm working on fixing it. I haven't finished with it yet, but you can take a look at what I've got so far. This section provides details on setup and some information on where to start with customisation. Again, this is a work in progress and under heavy development.

This is an early version of a simple sidebar widget. It uses the Protoype javascript library to display t-shirts in a small area. It's pretty rough around the edges at the moment. There's no error handling and the images aren't preloaded or cached on the local server.

This is a hacked together example of how you could use Finn Rudolph's ImageFlow script. Please note that you are expected to pay for his script if you intend using it on a commercial site. The version of his script I've used, is pretty outdated at this stage and he's added some nice new features which are worth a look. I'll eventually upload my end of things which will be free.

I'm currently working on a full blown php/html/ajax version of the flash t-shirt shop. It's still in an early phase so, unfortunately, there's nothing to see yet.

We have full blown shop running with the REST API implemented in Ruby on Rails. It's located at http://www.iheartyfu.de It is not a single shop, but incorporates multiple Spreadshirt Accounts into a single platform. We are however not querying the REST API all the time but import the Spreadshirt XML data into a local database, because the REST API feels slow. Also we wanted to have categories, different descriptions and titles for articles etc. If you are interested in the source then I'm willing to share it with you.