[plugin] [ORPHAN] vdh_flickr

aswihart · 2007-05-02 04:23:49

You can do that with sets, here’s the tag: <txp:vdh_flickr_thumbnails latest="x" set="1234567" /> Get the set # from your Flickr account.

nardo · 2007-05-02 05:18:28

don’t think so bud – according to the docs it’s

set=“1234567” The number of the set you want to show.
OR:
tags=“tag1,tag2” List of tags that should be displayed.
OR:
latest=“20” Show the latest 20 pics.

also doesn’t work in practice ;)

aswihart · 2007-05-02 05:33:11

can you get it to work with just latest="x"?

nardo · 2007-05-02 08:41:21

aswihart wrote:

can you get it to work with just latest="x"?

yep – but then it’s latest X from all sets…

using sets (collections now) for different subjects & calling them into the appropriate page on the Txp website… but some sets now have a lot of photos, and would rather just show the latest 20 or so

I think Flickr puts some restrictions on how you can call feeds from its site…

aswihart · 2007-05-02 15:10:30

I also can’t get that working like I thought it would. I can get it working to show a random="x" amount of photos from set="1234567", try that, should be better than nothing. Surprised that the latest photos thing didn’t work though.

aswihart · 2007-05-15 04:49:28

Ralph, the photo galleries would be much more relevant to Google if you gave all the thumbnails alt attributes with the image title, also it would be nice for mouseovers to see what the photos are about. I noticed this is already done for the next / prev links when viewing individual images, and I think it would be great if you could do it for all the thumbnails when viewing sets AND tagged photo groups.

How’s it going with you? Any free time in the foreseeable future for development of the features we had talked about before?

Last edited by aswihart (2007-05-15 04:57:39)

harri · 2007-05-15 18:03:39

i keep getting the infamous “Failed to connect to flickr.com!” message. i’m wondering wheter this is due to some php feature i might be missing.
these are my active extensions:

PHP extensions: libxml, xsl/0.1, xmlwriter/0.1, xmlrpc/0.51, dom/20031129, xmlreader/0.1, xml, session, pcre, SimpleXML, SPL, standard/5.2.2-pl1-gentoo, Reflection, mysqli/0.1, mysql/1.0, mcrypt, mbstring, iconv, gettext, gd, dba, date/5.2.2-pl1-gentoo, curl, ctype, zlib/1.1, openssl, apache2handler

i am using Txp 4.0.4 (r1956), Apache-2.0.58, mysql-5.0.40, php-5.2.2
can someone with a working vdh_flickr post his relevant “diagnostic info” segment?

thanks a lot

Last edited by harri (2007-05-15 22:45:37)

aswihart · 2007-05-15 18:35:38

Have you set the option to use php5 in the plugin code? I don’t know if that’s necessary but worth trying. I’m using PHP4, and here’s my diagnostics:

PHP version: 4.4.4
Server Local Time: 2007-05-15 14:35:35
MySQL: 4.1.21-standard
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Apache version: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
PHP Server API: apache

harri · 2007-05-18 08:28:09

still no luck.
might be a php-5.2 incompatibility, missing extensions or whatever.
there’s no way to debug the error, just that “Failed to connect to flickr.com!” and i have no php skills to investigate the code properly.

here’s my full diagnostics, any hint is welcome.
(in the meantime i updated txp to the latest svn)

regards

Textpattern version: 4.0.4 (r2355)
Last Update: 2007-05-17 20:52:08/2007-05-17 20:51:44
Document root: /usr/htdocs (/var/www/htdocs)
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Server Local Time: 2007-05-18 10:27:05
MySQL: 5.0.40-log
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RFC 2616 headers: 
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#RewriteBase /relative/web/path/

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 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
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#php_value register_globals 0

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ralph · 2007-05-18 08:45:38

@aswihart: Not so much free time in the near future, I will have more time in August.

@harri: Your PHP version looks fine, the only extension used is SimpleXML. But since this is a custom Gentoo server, is DNS set up properly? I’m just asking, because for connecting to the Flickr API, the box needs to be able to resolve DNS requests.

harri · 2007-05-18 13:34:52

SOLVED!
the allow_url_fopen directive in php.ini was set to Off
this is usually on, but gentoo defaults it to Off
Maybe the need for allow_url_fopen should be included in the documentation, to avoid a few headaches like mine..

now everything works like charm
Thanks everybody!

Last edited by harri (2007-05-19 10:25:37)

lunaport · 2007-06-09 20:08:21

Thanks, and a question:

First off, thanks to Ralph for your work on this excellent plug-in. I’m about to launch a new (version of ) my site that owes a ton to vdh_flickr. You can preview it here: http://gilford.textdrive.com/~lunaport/photos/.

I’ve noticed, however, that the date taken time is different from what I seen in at Flickr. For instance, on this photo (http://gilford.textdrive.com/~lunaport/photos/set/72157600329068680/img/536434680) the time is 03:24 AM, but when I go to “Edit the photo date” at flickr.com, it displays 08:24, the correct time.

I suspect it is no coincidence that the difference, 5 hours, is the same as the difference between my current time zone (CDT) and GMT. Is it possible that the Flickr API has changed the way it treats time? Does vdh_flickr need (or already have) time zone support? Have I missed something obvious?

ralph · 2007-06-10 11:03:20

Is it really the date taken or the date posted? According to flickr, no conversion is applied to the date taken, it’s the same date that is saved in the exif-data of the image. In contrast to this, the date posted is saved in gmt, and it is up to the application to convert the date to the applying timezone. Currently, vdh_flickr does only display the date posted in gmt format, but I can add this to the list of requested features for the next version.

lunaport · 2007-06-10 17:35:02

I finally found the link to More properties. As you can see the taken time is 12:35 CDT but shows as 7:35 via the plug-in. I confirmed this by editing the taken time in Flickr (to 15:35) and reloading the page in my site. The time stamp changed by an equivilant amount (to 10:35).

I have a little better understanding about how Flickr works now after reading the page you linked: No timezone information is stored for the time taken — the timezone shown on More properties comes from the user timezone set the Edit your profile page. I confirmed this by changing my timezone from CDT to GMT. The photo continued to show 12.35 on Flickr and 7:35 on my site, although on More properties the timezone did change from CDT to GMT.

And just to be clear, I checked a variety of my photos, and they’re all off by a consistent 5 hours. That got me suspicious about my host, since no-one else has posted about this problem. Then it dawned on my that I have a control case: my old site that I’m replacing, which is on another server. A quick check confirmed that there is a difference between the two: my old server doesn’t even display the time when using txp:vdh_flickr_img_date_taken!

So my next question is, what determines the formatting of the taken and posted dates, because it seems like it’s getting some kind of default from the server.

ralph · 2007-06-11 13:16:47

I’m using the time formatting functions in TxP’s textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php file. I’ve found out that there ist a function to calculate the offset between the server local time and the user’s selected time zone, too, so this problem should be easy to solve. Maybe I find some time next weekend to fix this.

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