This new version of phpFlickr has a few bug fixes, as well as an up-to-date method list. You'll also find that buildPhotoURL supports the new syntax for photo URLs, including the new originalsecret property and the new farm property. If you find any bugs, feel free to leave a comment here and I'll try to fix them as quickly as possible. If Flickr puts out a new API method, don't forget that you can use the call() method to call the method.
Head over to the phpFlickr download page on SourceForge to get the latest file release.
Great work. It is really easy to use. What about releasing the software as a PEAR channel, so it would be easier to update and rely on your library?
Hi!
At the moment I can't get any pictures. The examples on this page show the same error. Retrieving a Person doesn't work.
Bodo
I saw this problem too. It seems to have gone away, however. I'm guessing that my server was just having a temporary problem connecting to the Flickr API.
Work great, the URL is correct (farm1) – however, using the CalendarFlickr script – buildPhotoURL() is still pulling an incorrect farm name (farm). So strange…
Hi Dan,
First up thanks for the code! I'm not getting the originalsecret part of the URL when I call buildPhotoURL. So it ends up with URLS liks http://farm1.static.flickr.com/19/101994314__o. Any ideas?
All the best,
Chris.
Chris,
Depending on which method you call, it may not return the original secret or original format. You can use the extras parameter and add "original_secret" and "original_format" to get those. I think those extras tags are not documented at the moment.
Hi Dan – thanks that works perfectly now (used the extras parameter with flickr.photos.search.
Chris.
I love your library and decided to use it with a plugin I have been working on for wordpress. I have come across an issue dealing with multiple instances of phpflickr (and the accompanying libraries) being loaded due to multiple wordpress plugins using phpflickr. I have found a solution which involves a some small tweaks to your code. I'm not sure if it is the most elegant php solution but basically any place where you do a require_once call I have added a check to see if the given class that is to be loaded already exists.
Here is an example:
original code:
require_once 'PEAR.php';new code:
if(!class_exists("PEAR")) require_once 'PEAR.php';I thought perhaps you could add this to the next version of your library. Thanks again for all your hard work.
Josh,
That's a good point about the require_once calls. The problem, I realized, is that if you're including the same files from multiple locations, the "require_once" checks don't recognize them as the same file. Plugin developers should also use the class_exists function when they're including phpFlickr.php or it could try to load that class twice.
Is there a way to pull all a users photos into an array? people_getPublicPhotos() only grabs the latest 500 from the stream.
unclear if this will work with php5? I'm hoping so!
@Beth, If you use photos_search(), you can use the pagination arguments to get more than the initial 500 photos.
@angela, phpFlickr will absolutely work on php5. This site is running php5 and it works just fine.
Actually people_getPublicPhotos() supports pagination too, however I just can't get everything into a single array. Basically I found the total number of photos through people_getInfo(), divided it by 500 to get the number of pages. For each page, I grabbed the photos and stuck them into their own array. My problem lies in the fact I have no idea how to combine/concatenate them. If I do the usual dot selector and try to output it, I just get the last 500. It's like its overwriting the previous arrays.
Does that make sense?
Beth,
Use php's array_merge() function on the arrays of photos.
Ahhhh, I knew I was missing something – thanks! Worked perfectly!