New Add-on: Flickr for EE

I’m running EE 1.6.9 build 20100430, FF 1.4.2 and Flickr 1.0. The server it’s on is running Apache 2 and PHP 5.3.2. Let me know if there’s anything else I can do or tell you that would help debug this.

Are you also getting the error when you try to install?

Brett: Great tool, thanks for writing it. I’m wondering if it can help with my issue – I’m trying to display photos from a Flickr *group* on the local site so that a variety of people can contribute to the group and have them appear on the site. Is that possible with the current tool? And, if not, would that be a possible feature request? Thanks!

Hi alstauff, the current version does not support Groups but the next version does. You’ll be able to browse groups through the custom field browser as well as use several template tags to display your groups and the photos within a group. The next version should be ready to go later this week! One catch though, development on version 1.x (for EE1 has stopped, with the exception of fixing errors) so you’ll need to be on EE2 to use the new features.

Ouch! OK, well that’s not going to happen anytime soon. 😉 Hopefully the client can get used to Favoriting the photos they like and we’ll use it that way. Thanks for the reply!

Solution to the white screen of death on activation…

Line 90 (ish) of digitalwaxworks_flickr\scripts\flickr\phpFlickr.php

Was:

require_once 'HTTP/Request.php';

Change to:

require_once(FT_PATH . "/digitalwaxworks_flickr/scripts/flickr/HTTP/Request.php");

Works for me 😉

Solution to the white screen of death on activation…

Thanks Two Below Zero! The next version of Flickr for EE (v2.x) uses an updated version of phpFlickr and it doesn’t require any external libraries. So updating Flickr for EE v1.x would probably resolve this issue as well.

I don’t plan on making too many updates to v1.x but this is pretty important so I’ll push it out. Look for an offical release in the next few days.

Thanks!

-Brett

Solution to the white screen of death on activation… Line 90 (ish) of digitalwaxworks_flickr\scripts\flickr\phpFlickr.php Was:

require_once 'HTTP/Request.php';

Change to:

require_once(FT_PATH . "/digitalwaxworks_flickr/scripts/flickr/HTTP/Request.php");

Works for me 😉

That worked for me!! Thanks!

I’ve updated Flickr for EE1 to fix some of the installation issues some have been having. The fix included updating to the newest version of phpFlickr. This should fix the installation errors as it doesn’t rely on the external libraries that were causing some of the problems.

You can grab the newest version here - http://digitalwaxworks.com/expressionengine/flickr/

Thanks for working on this. I’m running EE 1.6.9 on MAMP. Downloaded and installed Flickr for EE1, and have noticed a couple of strange behaviors:

• a flickr field doesn’t show up if I create a group with only that one field.

• I can get the field to show up in a group with more than one field, but the button to select photos doesn’t respond.

Thanks- Ikaika

Thanks for working on this. I’m running EE 1.6.9 on MAMP. Downloaded and installed Flickr for EE1, and have noticed a couple of strange behaviors: - a flickr field doesn’t show up if I create a group with only that one field. - I can get the field to show up in a group with more than one field, but the button to select photos doesn’t respond. Thanks- Ikaika

Do you have any other fieldtypes installed? It uses jquery to open the Flickr browser window so it could be a javascript/jquery issue? Any chance you can open an error console in your browser and see if it throws any javascript errors?

Thanks!

• Brett

I have the standard FieldFrame fieldtypes installed, plus Matrix and Playa. I’ll check for JS errors right now.

I think I figured it out … the URL string called by the “choose photo” button was missing the first segment, i.e., the webroot on MAMP. I’ll check my system config to see if I’ve got the URL correctly throughout. What do you think?

Ok, I’ve corrected the path in my Fieldframes settings, and the URL works; but the lightbox still doesn’t come up. Here’s the JS errors from Chrome:

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js:17 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘opacity’ of undefined

jquery.ff-flickr.js:70 Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an Object> has no method ‘fancybox’

Ok, I’ve corrected the path in my Fieldframes settings, and the URL works; but the lightbox still doesn’t come up. Here’s the JS errors from Chrome: jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js:17 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘opacity’ of undefined jquery.ff-flickr.js:70 Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an Object> has no method ‘fancybox’

Can you do a search on the source code on your Publish/Edit page (where it displays the Flickr field) and search for “fancybox.” There should be a fancybox.js file included in there somewhere.

There’s a “jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js” but not fancybox.js.

There’s a “jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js” but not fancybox.js.

That’s it. It could be a conflict with another jquery or javascript file. This is something I’ve come across while developing another add-on. Lots of add-ons pulling in their own (often the same) javascript files. Hmmmm……..

I’ll have to get back to you on this in a bit….