Random or Latest Flickr Photos Mod ?

[Minare]

Hi

Above the news section, there can be a place to show five latest  or random flickr photos of a specific flickr user.

It would be really a nice and popular mod, just an idea, if anyone is capable of doing this and have time to do, it would be great 

[PJLawrence]

This can be achieved by using one of SMF many portal systems i.e Tinyportal or Simpleportal, via a php block.

What you'll need to do first is to download phpFlickr-2.2.0.zip from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=139987&package_id=153541&release_id=569504.
Then copy the folder phpFlickr-2.2.0, contained in this zip file, into your smf source folder. i.e. the folder phpFlickr-2.2.0 should be a subdirectory of your SMF source directory.

You will then need to obtain your own Flickr API key from http://www.flickr.com/services/api/key.gne.

Once you have obtained an API key you should create a PHP block in your chosen portal system which contains the code below.
Edit the script to include your Flickr user ID and API key. (note the example api_key in the code is a made up key for demonstration purposes only.)

Set your block display options and your recently uploaded Flickr images should be displayed in that block.

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// Code to display a flickr user's most recently uploaded photos
//
// First download the phpflickr source code from http://phpflickr.com/
// and copy the folder phpFlickr-2.2.0 into your smf source folder
//
// You need to assign the following variables...
// $api_key - This is the API key given to you by flickr.com.
// Replace [API Key] with you API key.
// You can get an API Key at: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/key.gne
// e.g. $api_key = "z28afz1861e2byb888325695c7fx4df6"; 
$api_key = "[API Key]"; 
// replace [Flickr ID] with your Flickr User ID
// e.g. $UserID = "Fred 08";
$UserID = "[Flickr ID]";
// The number of images to display
$NumberOfPhotos=5;       

require_once("phpFlickr-2.2.0/phpFlickr.php");
// Create new phpFlickr object
$f = new phpFlickr($api_key);

if (!empty($UserID)) {
    // Find the NSID of the username
    $person = $f->people_findByUsername($UserID);

    // Get the friendly URL of the user's photos
    $photos_url = $f->urls_getUserPhotos($person['id']);

    // Get the user's first $NumberOfPhotos public photos
    $photos = $f->people_getPublicPhotos($person['id'], NULL, $NumberOfPhotos);

    // Loop through the photos and output the html
$i = 0;
    foreach ((array)$photos['photo'] as $photo) {
        echo "<a href=$photos_url$photo[id]>";
        echo "<img border='0' alt='$photo[title]' ".
            "src=" . $f->buildPhotoURL($photo, "Square") . ">";
        echo "</a>";
        $i++;
        // If it reaches the 8th photo, insert a line break
        if ($i % 8 == 0) {
            echo "<br />\n";
        }
    }
}


[Jojie]

HI, Lawrence.

I actually have your mod installed in my site. which works..

the only thing is.. I'm interested in the search function. As I am i don't have the abiltiy to do PHP I'm hoping any of you guys could provide some code snips for this..

Bascially all i want to do is... modify this mode:  http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1564 
where the userID   becomes a tag. Ofcourse if you gys want to update the mod to include it would be really great..

[Arantor]

Normally I'd say that you'd be best asking on the mod's support topic, though to be honest I doubt it's being supported now.

Just isn't much call for Flickr mods for SMF

[PJLawrence]

jojie, searching flicker for a given tag is possible using phpFlickr and shouldn't require many changes  to the code above.
see http://you.gotfoo.org/flickr-photo-search-using-phpflickr/