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ActivityPub Event Handling in PHP and MySQL (Oct 2024)
In the concluding part of the series on implementing ActivityPub for this blog, I look at the events that may arrive at the blog after a user follows the blog on Mastodon, and how we can keep track of them.
ActivityPub Follows in PHP (Aug 2024)
Continuing a previous article on implementing ActivityPub support in PHP, this post looks at how to handle the most common types of message that might be expected to pass through a simple AP implementation.
Implementing HTTP Signatures with PHP and OpenSSL (May 2024)
Part of a series on implementing ActivityPub support for this blog. A core tenet of ActivityPub is the generation and verification of signatures for messages, and this article looks at how that works in PHP.