FlickrViewer 1.2.3
FlickrViewer is a free PHP script which allows SimpleViewer 1.8 to get its data from the oh-so-popular Flickr. You can see a working demo on http://dustinsenos.com/photos/
Download
Requirements
Technical
- Caches results to increase performance and decrease the load on your Flickr API key
- Supports most SimpleViewer XML options
- Fetches data via fopen or curl to support most hosts
- Original FlickrViewer source by Mark Sweeting
Installation
- Apply for a Flickr API key at http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.api_keys.html write down / save the API key to a file. You will need this later
- Browse to the Flickr Set that you want FlickrViewer to display. Make note of the url of the set. We are interested in the last digits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dustin_senos/sets/72157600076504544/ write down / save these numbers with your API Key
- Download both FlickrViewer & SimpleViewer 1.8
- Unzip the files to your local machine
- Open flickrViewer.php in your text editing software. I suggest TextMate (OS X) or Programmers Notepad 2 (Windows) however any text editing software will work
- Look for the variable
$apikey in flickrViewer.php and add the API key that you saved from Flickr earlier
- Scroll down to the
$setid variable and add the set id you saved earlier
- Continue scrolling down in flickrViewer.php and read the info about the various options. Edit these as you see fit, you can always come back to them later
- Open index.htm which was located in the FlickrViewer zip file in your text editing software. Change the title, description and keywords to match your site content
- Connect to your server with your FTP software of choice. I recommend Transmit 3 (OS X) or SmartFTP (Windows)
- First upload the files from SimpleViewer 1.8. Then upload the FlickrViewer files, say yes to any overwrites
- Create a folder called 'tmp' in the same directory you uploaded FlickrViewer & SimpleViewer to. Set its permissions to Read/Write
- Check it out!
- If there are issues, try setting
$debug to true. Changing $ttl to 0 and $usecurl to true
Support
For the fastest response check out the FlickrViewer forum on SourceForge. Or you can email me at dustin@dustinsenos.com. I read all emails, but might take a bit to respond. Hold tight.
Warning
FlickrViewer HAS NOT been excessively tested. Use at your own risk.
Updates
June 27th 2007
Fixed caching issue and updated XHTML & CSS. Zip also includes updated swfObject 1.5
June 10th 2007
Updated to allow the option of using either curl or fopen to fetch the data from Flickr.
November 20th 2007
Updated $thumbnailColumns, thanks Corey!
Sites using FlickrViewer