Magento gives the following code snippet on their site, but I could not get it to work – souring the message boards didn’t really help either.  I am not sure if something was off with my installation instance or what.

After a bunch of trial and error – scouring the web etc – i was finally able to make a connection with the following script

<?php
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
define("XMLRPC_DEBUG", 1);

require_once('../app/Mage.php');
$client = new Zend_XmlRpc_Client('http://www.domain.com/api/xmlrpc');

// If somestuff requires api authentification, we should get session token
$session = $client->call('login', array('user', 'key'));

echo "<pre>";
print_r($session);
echo "</pre>";

// If you don't need the session anymore
$client->call('endSession', array($session));
?>

one strange thing to note is the path to the API – with a trailing slash, i could not get this to work…’

I hope that this helps someone else out.

Great Job!

Way to go WordPress.

sounds cool – i can hardly wait.

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Each of these sites is similar in the fact that they’re all basically just blogs but they all showcase (most on a daily basis) sites that have been designed well. Here is a break down of each site and my two cents about it.

Screenfluent
www.screenfluent.com
I find more cool sites using Screenfluent than any of the others. Screenfluent is updated on a regular basis (daily most of the time) and features over 6700 sites as of today. Designs tend to be crisp and clean, many are standards based although some full flash sites get featured as well. Sites may not be submitted to Screenfluent, as the site states “the featured sites are handpicked and proposals are not accepted. as
legend has it, remarkable designs will find their way to screenfluent.”

Best Web Gallery
www.bestwebgallery.com
As Best Web Gallery says of itself “Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a
wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is
quality design means to us?

Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity” This site has a great layout and design and allows users may submit their site to Best Web Gallery.

CSS Beauty
www.cssbeauty.com
This site differs from the last few in that while it touches on design, it’s more technically driven. CSS Beauty links to articles on AJAX, cross browser issues, standards compliance, and good articles about the future of the web. If you lean towards the more geeky side of design and development, this site is a must bookmark for you – the archives might even have the answer to that issue that’s been giving you fits.

The Best Designs

www.thebestdesigns.com
The Best Designs, like some of the previously mentioned sites exhibits nicely designed sites, but where it differs is that it also features designers. Site visitors may submit a site or also suggest a designer. Most of the sites featured on The Best Designs tend to be unique, and not found on the previously mentioned site indexes.

Styleboost

www.styleboost.com
Truthfully, Styleboost is not updated on a regular basis (maybe weekly at best) and I am not drawn to all of the sites that they select to show, but they do come up with some gems, and they have a really cool color sorter that allows you to view sites by what colors they contain.

So there it is 5 of my 9 tabs…what are the other 4? Maybe in another post.