Flickr API Example

• Latest Vesion : http://chunghe.googlepages.com/flickr.php.txt
• Code modified from : http://talks.php.net/show/afup05/15 cache
  
• Output example : http://chunghe.googlepages.com/flickr.htm
• php, caching and the flickr api

//var_dum($xml) output

object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) {
  ["photos"]=>
  object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (1) {
    ["photo"]=>
    array(100) {
      [0]=>
      object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (0) {
      }
      [1]=>
      object(SimpleXMLElement)#4 (0) {
      }
    .........
      [99]=>
      object(SimpleXMLElement)#102 (0) {
      }
    }
  }
}

function photo_url($p, $size='t', $ext='jpg'){
return "http://static.flickr.com/{$p['server']}/{$p['id']}_{$p['secret']}_$size.{$ext}";
}

$url ="http://flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.people.getPublicPhotos".
"&user_id=79211125%40N00&api_key=YourAPIKey";

$xml = @simplexml_load_file($url) or die("Unable to contact Flickr");
$perpage = $xml->photos['perpage'];
$total = $xml->photos['total'];

foreach($xml->photos->photo as $photo){
print photo_url($photo,'s');
// print $photo['title'];
}