Comments on: Fetchr4SSP v1.4 // Combining Flickr and SlideShowPro for Photo Gallery Goodness!

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:29:40 +0000

Also… sometimes when folks are setting up the ssp.swf file they don’t quite get the permissions right. You can bypass any fuss by using the “images.xml” file, rather than the “fetchr4ssp.php” file as your XML source inside SSP. This will work great, but just make sure that whenever you update Flickr you do a cache_refresh (or let your 24-hour CRON job do it).

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:27:26 +0000

If you have a lot of photos it takes a while to make all those calls to Flickr to build your images.xml file. I think of how long it takes Flickr to load page after page of your photostream… and even though we’re not pulling down full photos the Flickr API is not very fast.

If you read the Fetchr site, I suggested that you set up a CRON job (every decent web host has some CRON system built into its control panel to allow you to initiate a periodic web call). If you have your Fetchr set to refresh every 25 hours… and you use a CRON to initiate a forced refresh (—–/fetchr4ssp.php?cache_refresh) every 24 hours, then you’ll have one whole HOUR to allow the magic to happen.

By: elke

elke — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:14:52 +0000

hi,
i’m having some issues and am not sure why. maybe it’s the amount of photographs being processed by fetchr.
at any rate, more often than not all i get is a blank black page.
any ideas what i need to fix?

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:52:52 +0000

@elke
CRON jobs are usually set somewhere obvious (hopefully) inside the hosting control center of your service provider. Give your tech supports folks a message and ask them where you create CRON jobs at.

Also… as a last resort you can always set your cache refresh time to be 0 (never refreshes automatically) and then just run a manual refresh whenever you want it to index newly uploaded Flickr photos.

By: elke

elke — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:38:16 +0000

do you have any more information on this cron job? as far as i can tell my server would support it, but i have no idea how to go about setting it up.
at the moment my site loads incredibly slowly when it’s being accessed the first time after the cache refresh.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:22:14 +0000

Send me an email. That error is common and usually from a syntax error in teh config file when you made your customizations.

By: Shafiq

Shafiq — Fri, 27 May 2011 22:44:11 +0000

Hi There …

I’ve purchased the commercial version for this software but when I run fetchr4ssp.php I recieve the following message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/website/public_html/fetchr4ssp/fetchr4ssp.php on line 1

I’ve made sure and i’m running PHP Version 5.3.5… Ive checked this via phpinfo function.

Any Ideas?

Many Thanks

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:25:38 +0000

@mekene
I don’t think so. I think you can always download your OWN images at the original resolution. It might be that without a PRO account you can’t download OTHER people’s photos any bigger than “large”. The Flickr forums may have more insight into that premise, though.

By: mekene

mekene — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:14:57 +0000

Actually what I meant is that I do not own a pro account.

Is it necessary to go pro to be able to fetch images higher than 1024px wide ?

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:34:59 +0000

@mekene
Having a Pro account should NOT affect the sizes returned if you are the owner of the photos (or… if the owner of the photos was the one who got the API key).

Email me the “fetchr4ssp.php” file and I can take a look. If what you’re describing is correct then there’s an error in the program (only had someone find one other one ever). But nobody’s mentioned that one, and it would be a BIG obvious one… so perhaps something else is going on. I’ll take a look if you send me the file.

By: mekene

mekene — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:36:39 +0000

Hello,
I just bought fetchr4ssp and it’s working fine.
I am trying to fetch my original size images because I want the fullscreen display to look nice, but the images are limited to 1024px wide even if I set :

$fetchr_settings['full_size'] = “Biggest”;

Is this because I need a pro flickr account ?

Thanks.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:57:17 +0000

The setting…

$fetchr_settings['full_size'] = “Bigger”;

…is what sets the actual album image.

Did you reset your cache (essentially rebuilding your images.xml file) to see if private photos show up? If you have problems send em an email.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:04:41 +0000

I got the token but my private photos are still not showing up. Is there another setting that I’m missing.

I’m still not sure how to use a medium (500px) photo for the album and a small (240px) thumbnail for the nav?

The only setting I see is:
$fetchr_settings['thumbnail_size'] = “Square”;
Looks like that sets the nav thumbnails and the album image.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:59:40 +0000

@drec
If you haven’t already… email me the exact URL you are using inside your Flash file. Yes, using a generic “images.xml” file is a great way to test to see if Fetchr is the problem, or if actually no matter what images.xml file you try and use there is a path problem. So it douns like a path problem most likely.

By: drec

drec — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:38:40 +0000

Thanks.

OK, so I sorted out the error message with your help(been busy so only gotten back to this)only for a new error to replace it; Slideshow Data cannot be found, check xml file path and type.
I couldn’t find the xml file so like Jared above I added a file called images.xml and changed permissions. I’ve got this currently on my live site(very old post) http://drecart.com/2009/11/currumbin-rock/ down the very bottom. Everything else this page is served up by Director(also added flickr.com and http://www.flickr.com to my cross-domain file) It’ll be something simple I have missed.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:12:51 +0000

@drec
Do you have a Flickr PRO account? If not… be sure you have nothing in the token value. Otherwise send me an email with the fetchr4ssp.php file in it and I’ll try.

BTW, stunning photos!!!

By: drec

drec — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:47:38 +0000

Hi, I’m giving your script a go and following the ways above but have hit a wall and only get this error message;
error message=”User ID xxx does not exist” /

The same API key is working on a Flickr/WordPress Plugin ok – I’ve tried both Live and Localhost environment with no luck. Running PHP 5.2.9-2 locally

drec

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:42:27 +0000

1) It’s all set right in the “fetchr4ssp.php” config file.

2) Make sure you read the instructions in the config file when setting your callback URL. If you skipped that part then Flickr doesn’t know where your “Fetchr4ssp.php” file is on the internet to “call back to”.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:17:07 +0000

1) Is there any way to use a medium (500px) photo for the album and a small (240px) thumbnail for the nav?

2) I’m having an issue getting my token. I get sent to the “Oops! Flickr can’t find a valid callback URL.” page.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:21:26 +0000

@Simon
Yes, for what you want to do the easiest thing is to use multiple copies of Fetchr in a single site. I keep them in separate folders carefully named so I know what’s what.