Comments on: FlickrViewer 1.1 released

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:02:01 +0000

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Thanks!

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:38:16 +0000

Hi, am desperate to get this working but cannot;

It says in step 2 of installation: “Download FlickrViewer and extract the files to your web server.”

When i download Flickrviewer it is a TGZ file that my computer does not recognise (and neither do i for that matter!) meaning that i cannot extract the files.

Please help!
Cheers!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:04:49 +0000

Keith,

The PHP is written to run on Linux. You need to change the cache path from /tmp to c:/temp or something like that. You may have a problem with permissions, but you should be able to suss that yourself….

By: keith

keith — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:29:24 +0000

I’m having a hell of a time with the cache folder. If I set the tll=0, it works with no problem.. otherwise, i’m getting an error that i assume means there’s a problem with either the permissions or the existence of a cache folder/file.

what exactly does /tmp/flickr.xml refer to? In windows terms, does that mean c:\tmp\flickr.xml, or is it related to the website, so my.domain.com would refer to my.domain.com/tmp/flickr.xml?

in either case (windows path location vs. web path), how do I ensure I have the proper permissions? Give the IUSR account read/write, or ? I’m using IIS 7, which just adds more BS to the mix, since it is so different from IIS 6.. ugh.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

By: lyngve

lyngve — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:02:00 +0000

Thanks very much!
I did some few tweaks, and it works nicely on my website:

http://distantpeak.com/web/flickr

By: Krätze

Krätze — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:34:05 +0000

http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/Daniel.Michaelis/

My Gallery doesn’t work. I tried to configure it several times, always following the descriptions.

Does anybody have a clue what might be wrong?

Cheers

By: adam

adam — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:19:00 +0000

nevermind, got it working thanks to 101cs script, cheers!

great work

By: adam

adam — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:25:36 +0000

forgot to post, php info for my server >> http://www.lefragileebouy.co.uk/phpinfo.php

By: adam

adam — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:23:09 +0000

hey ho, having some trouble getting mine to work

http://www.lefragileebouy.co.uk/simpleviewer/flickrViewer.php

any help much appreciated!

Adam

By: munkay

munkay — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:11:08 +0000

Should’ve looked at your solution first l01c, because I coded almost the exact same thing in order to fix the outgoing http request problem. My host (Dreamhost) does not allow it (as others before have noted).

Your code is excellent, except that it does not do any error checking (in case the constructed url is wrong etc etc).

I’m posting my solution here, in hopes that it may provide a different approach:

Replace the segment between ‘//off we go!’ and ‘// parse flickr response’ with the text as below:
// off we go!
// init handle for curl
$curl_handle = curl_init();

// set curl options
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

// buffer will contain the result of the http request
$xmlin = curl_exec($curl_handle);

// cleanup and close handle
curl_close($curl_handle);

// check if response exists
if(!empty($xmlin))
{
// parse the flickr response

Hope that helps,
munkay