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In order to complete this tutorial you will need to apply for a flickr API key. You will also need to download a copy of phpFlickr API Kit. The use of an API Kit makes the use of flickr’s API methods easier. You can also view the demo page of the tutorial (opens in a new tab).
Let’s begin. First, we need to include the phpFlickr main file and then create a new phpFlickr object which is stored in the $phpFlickrObj variable. Make sure you enter the correct path (where you extracted the phpFlickr files) and also enter your flickr API key.
require_once("phpFlickr/phpFlickr.php");
$phpFlickrObj = new phpFlickr('Your_Flickr_API_Key');
The next step is to obtain your NSID by using your flickr username (in the example I’m using my flickr username), which is stored in the $user variable. Using this NSID, we get the url to the specific user’s photos and we store it in the $user_url variable. Finally, we get an array ($photos) containing all the relevant information (id, title, etc.) of the last four (if you want to change the number of photos, just change the number) photos appearing in the user’s photostream.
$user = $phpFlickrObj->people_findByUsername('stathisg');
$user_url = $phpFlickrObj->urls_getUserPhotos($user['id']);
$photos = $phpFlickrObj->people_getPublicPhotos($user['id'], NULL, NULL, 4);
In this example we use only the id and the title of each photo. If you want to view all the information contained in the array, you can use print_r($photos).
The final step to display the photos, is to convert the multidimensional array into an array of one dimension and use a loop to display everything. The following code, displays the photos. The photos can be displayed in six different sizes. To change the size, you need to alter the “square” value. The available sizes are: square, thumbnail, small, medium, large and original.
foreach ($photos['photos']['photo'] as $photo)
{
echo '<a href="'.$user_url.$photo['id'].'" title="'.$photo['title'].' (on Flickr)" target="_blank">';
echo '<img alt="'.$photo['title'].'" src="'.$phpFlickrObj->buildPhotoURL($photo, "square").'" />';
echo '</a>';
}
The complete code is diplayed below. You can also view the demo page of the tutorial (opens in a new tab).
require_once("phpFlickr/phpFlickr.php");
$phpFlickrObj = new phpFlickr('46dea5f6abb12aed7a823adb7ecf5816');
$user = $phpFlickrObj->people_findByUsername('stathisg');
$user_url = $phpFlickrObj->urls_getUserPhotos($user['id']);
$photos = $phpFlickrObj->people_getPublicPhotos($user['id'], NULL, NULL, 4);
foreach ($photos['photos']['photo'] as $photo)
{
echo '<a href="'.$user_url.$photo['id'].'" title="'.$photo['title'].' (on Flickr)" target="_blank">';
echo '<img alt="'.$photo['title'].'" src="'.$phpFlickrObj->buildPhotoURL($photo, "square").'" />';
echo '</a>';
}
Hi, thanks for the tutorial, got me up and running in no time.
I’ve managed to display the photo’s title with it but struggling with displaying the photo’s description. Could you advise on how to display this please. It’s not one of the values in the $photos array.
Many thanks,
Dave
Hello Dave,
You can get the photo’s description using the following code (place it into the foreach loop of the example):
$info = $f->photos_getInfo($photo[id]);
echo $info['description'];
I hope that helps.
Thank you I got your code and it worked fine.
But can you explain how you display the next set of results from a search maybe?
Thanks
Hello Samuel,
Can you explain in more detail your question? I cannot understand what you want me to explain
Hai, really nice demo. but when I give my yahooid.it’s shown error but if i give my flickr screen name it’s give me the reply.can just tell me how can i make it using yahoo id.
@rathin:
If you mean the id that Flickr has generated for you (NSID) do the following: remove the “$user = $phpFlickrObj->people_findByUsername($username);” line and then hard-code your id in the following two lines in the place of “$user['id']“.
If you mean your e-mail, then instead of “$user = $phpFlickrObj->people_findByUsername($username);” use “$user = $phpFlickrObj->people_findByEmail($email);”.
I hope that helps. You can find all the available Flickr’s API functions here: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
hey nice blog, i just want to ask,
i added the code, and wordks fine, but if i am using different usernames then i am getting errors
for eg,
if i change the username to “vlerick” it gives me this error
“Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in \page.php on line 11″
same thing when i tried on your demo, it gives me the same error
the flickr url of this is : http://www.flickr.com/people/vlerick/
whats the problem?
Salam,
Nice work buddy, this blog really helped me. Thanks
I’m building a multi authors blog and I need to use this beautiful piece of code in wordpress author’s page (author.php) getting user name from a custom field from admin.
I’m struggling to get this working. All I get so far is the account name printed and nothing else:
“$var = the_author_meta( ‘flickr’ );
$user = $phpFlickrObj->people_findByUsername($var);
$user_url = $phpFlickrObj->urls_getUserPhotos($user['id']);
$photos = $phpFlickrObj->people_getPublicPhotos($user['id'], NULL, NULL, 4);”
Can you give a direction?
Thanks!
Hello,
I’ve successfully installed your code on my “Contacts Page” but I would like to show one of Flickr “Sets” instead of just my global photo feed. Is this possible?
Please get back to me at your earliest convenience.
Much appreciated!
Intiaz
Hi nice job thanks, but can you please hekp .. how I can make a search with keyword (like for example “cat dog”) how I have to change the followomg code
$user = $phpFlickrObj->people_findByUsername($var);
$user_url = $phpFlickrObj->urls_getUserPhotos($user['id']);
$photos = $phpFlickrObj->people_getPublicPhotos($user['id'], NULL, NULL, 4);”
for getting only ctas and dogs images
thanks in advanced.