Flickr CodeIgniter Library « Elliot Haughin

Flickr CodeIgniter Library

On my blog, here… I have a little grid of my latest flickr pictures in the footer.
It’s quite nice, I like people to see what I’ve been up to recently in the ‘real world’.

That’s why I decided to build a library to do this in CodeIgniter!

The basic library parses an RSS feed of photos according to your options, and then returns the image data.

So… this is how you use it in your controller:

$this->load->library('flickr');
 
$config = array(
	'type'				=> 'user',
	'user'				=> '56471355@N00',
	'num_items'		=> 10,
	'rss_cache_path'		=> APPPATH.'cache/flickr-rss-cache',
	'cache_time'		=> 3600,
	'img_cache_path'		=> APPPATH.'cache/flickr-image-cache',
	'img_cache_url'		=> $this->config->item('base_url').'application/cache/flickr-image-cache',
	'use_cache'			=> false,
	'image_size'		=> 'square',
	'tags'				=> 'london'
);
 
$this->flickr->init($config);
 
$data['photos'] = $this->flickr->get_photos();

Note: Your ‘user’ must be your flickr id, you can get it from idgettr

In you view files, display your images like so:

<?php foreach ($photos as $photo):?>
<img src="<?=$photo['image_url']?>" />
<?php endforeach; ?>

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Comments

the problem guy says:

March 8, 2009 at 11:45 am

I am getting this kind of error.
—–
Severity: User Warning

Message: /home13/xxx/www/system/application/cache/flickr-rss-cache/509a32df9adcdc21726cd5eadf499d56.spc is not writeable

Filename: libraries/Simplepie.php

Line Number: 1780
—–
Of course, I created cache folder, flickr-rss-cache folder, and also set their permission to be 777.
I searched through web, and there seem to be other people who are having a same problem with me.
What would be a problem???
Pajp says:

May 20, 2009 at 7:03 pm

Do I have to configure my Flickr-account in any way?

I tried with Elliot’s profile and it works great. But as soon as i change to my own user ID I cant get any photos. No errors or so, just an empty array.

Any ideas?
CodeIgniter: Twitter,Flickr,AmazonS3,Facebook uvm. | tagdocs.de says:

June 3, 2009 at 11:11 am

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gouse says:

June 9, 2009 at 2:40 pm

It is working with Elloit Account but it is not working with my account.

What is esssential variable we need to set in Config variable?
Sean McGary says:

June 16, 2009 at 10:25 pm

@the problem guy

I had the same problem but got it working. Just made a cache directory like this: /system/application/cache/flickr-rss-cache. And then I set the permissions to 777 for both cache and flickr-rss-cache. Once I did that the error went away and it all worked.

@Pajp and gouse:
I too had the problem of it not returning any of my pics. But then I looked at the config array that you pass to $this->flickr->config and noticed that the tags index had a value of ‘london’. And since none of my pics had the tag of london, none would show up . That should fix your problems =D
BOB says:

June 22, 2009 at 8:13 am

Hi,
thanks for this great library.
I had to make some adjustments to make it work with “use_cache=true”.

In the config array:
img_cache_path -> cache_path
img_cache_url -> cache_url

…$this->config->item(’base_url’).’application/cache/flickr-image-cache… ->
…$this->config->item(’base_url’).’system/application/cache/flickr-image-cache…

Cheers

Elliot Haughin