Displaying your recent Flickr photos without using WordPress

Posted on Friday, June 8th, 2007 at 2:48pm.

I wanted to ‘pull’ my recent Flickr photos^ and display them on my site. All of the scripts I found were actually WordPress (or other blogging tools) plugins.

I sort of gave up on the idea until last night, when I joined Twitter^; I wanted to display my twitters on my site. I found a JavaScript snippet that would do it for me but it kept killing Internet Explorer, so I kept looking around and found a script called TwitBlog^.

TwitBlog requires Magpie RSS^ to be installed; the script is actually pulling your Twitters from the RSS feed and displaying it in HTML format and the RSS feed is parsed with Magpie RSS. (Don’t know how to install MagpieRSS?)

I then Googled ‘flickr rss parser’ and came across a script called GetFlickrPHP^ (the link no longer works, so you can download a copy of GetFlickrPHP from here), which did the whole ‘display in HTML format’ thing for me. ;)

To get it working, I had to find my Flickr ID^ and then modify the variables, near the top of the script. This is what my variables are set to:

# set what type of tag you're pulling from flickr
# 0 = tag; 1 = user; 2 = group pool
$tagtype = 1;
# set the tag to pull from flickr (tag, user or group pool)
# example: "cats", "44124462494@N01", "circle"
$tag = "46498153@N00";
# set default value for number of pictures to show
# (flickr show maximum of 10 photos in feed)
$num_items = 9;
# set to true to use medium pics, otherwise it uses small
$mediumPics = false;
# set location of Magpie RSS files
# require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');
# require_once('magpierss/rss_utils.inc');
require_once('/home/user/public_html/magpierss_installed/rss_fetch.inc');
require_once('/home/user/public_html/magpierss_installed/rss_utils.inc');
# use image cache & set location
$useImageCache = false;
$cachePath="http://www.thebishop.net/news/cache/";
$fullPath="/home/tbishop61/www/news/cache/";

Easy! :D I just wish someone had done this before me and talked about it!


Survey people

Posted on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 6:20pm.

I was in the city centre earlier and one of those survey people (“Can I ask you a few questions/have a few minutes of your time?”) tried getting my attention.
Normally I stop and say “No, thank you; I don’t have time.” (whether I have the time or not) and have to repeat myself a few times for them to take any notice.

This time I just carried on walking.

I feel kind of mean – don’t they have to question like 50 people before they get paid?


Archives

Posted on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 at 8:38pm.

I found all of my archives from never-his.org (between January 2006 and June/July 2006) and had a quick read through them…

Take it this way, they will never be put up on this site. It’s kind of embarrassing reading through them; *lol*s all over the place, 101 smilies in each post, I swore like a sailor (they were all *EFF, EFF, EFF!!!*) and WOW, didn’t I complain a lot? Like…all of the time!

It was just…weird reading all of these ‘old’ entries of mine. Kind of reminds me of all of those old diaries I have stashed away somewhere, from when I was about 13, heh.

I only found them because I was looking for the entries I’d written on this site (I wiped the database in December 2006). Didn’t find what I was looking for; I must have kept my backups on my desktop and had obviously neglected to move them to my external hard drive.

I’ve changed a lot in the past 18 months. Seriously.



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