Comments on: Fetchr4SSP v1.3 // Combining Flickr and SlideShowPro for Photo Gallery Goodness!

By: Christine Krizsa

Christine Krizsa — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:44:55 +0000

I have SSP Director, SSP for Lightroom, and WP.. I don’t have SSP for Flash.. Can I still up this nifty WP plugin?

By: Gorm

Gorm — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:36:15 +0000

Hi - Great piece of software here, Just a quick question: How would you go about, pulling a specific date out?

Eg my photos for 25 December 2007 across different sets.

Is this possible?

Many thanks

Gorm

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:02:29 +0000

@timothy West & Leon Chen
Yes, PHP5 is required — I wasn’t kidding when I put it in the pre-requisites.

But alas, I have a special file I coded up just for PHP4 folks. Send me an email from the address you used to acquire Fetchr4SSP and ask for the PHP4 version and I’ll send it to you.

By: Leon Chen

Leon Chen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:09:23 +0000

Hello I have the same issue

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS in /home/rfmaf0/public_html/fetchr4ssp/includes/fetchr.class.php on line 10

My php version is 4.47. Is the PHP5 a must? I saw you mentioned you have a PHP4 version. I bought the personal version but can’t run the fetchr4ssp.php still…

Please help..

Leon

By: timothy West

timothy West — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:53:49 +0000

aha i have just enabled it.. and i have got it running locally but it doesnt work when i upload to the server…?? here are the two test urls i have been using?

main-slideshow/fetchr.html

sorry it seems that i have it all working now and its great my cache was still an issue?? lol

thanks for your help now time to buy it so that i can do all of this

By: timothy West

timothy West — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:29:14 +0000

PHP version 4.4.7 sorry just checked how do they upgrade?? can i ask them too..

By: timothy West

timothy West — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:27:12 +0000

an i am on lunarpages and i am sure that they have php5 how would i know??

By: timothy West

timothy West — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:24:51 +0000

this is the test one i have put up
http://www.rfmafrica.com/main-slideshow/fetchr.html

with this in the place of where the .xml should go
http://rfmafrica.com/fetchr4ssp/fetchr4ssp.php

is this correct or is it meant to go to and actual .xm with the link in the .xml??

By: timothy West

timothy West — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:16:56 +0000

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS in /home/rfmaf0/public_html/fetchr4ssp/includes/fetchr.class.php on line 10

i get this at this url

http://rfmafrica.com/fetchr4ssp/fetchr4ssp.php

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:32:12 +0000

Dan,

Sounds like you’re trying out the trial version (that’s cool, obviously) and that your host has not upgraded to PHP5 (which is crazy because PHP4 isn’t even supported anymore). That error is exclusive to PHP4 users.

I did make a custom Fetchr version for PHP4 folks, but I don’t keep a “crippled” version for trial use.

I’d recommend bugging your host about PHP5.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:10:17 +0000

Hi Steve,
I’m trying to get Fetchr to work for me but I’ve hit a bit of a wall. I have SSP working just fine but the test page I have using Fetchr doesn’t show any pictures (http://www.dw2.net/flickr/dw2flickrssp.html). When I navigate directly to the fetchr4ssp.php file I get this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CLASS in /home/virtual/site152/fst/var/www/html/flickr/fetchr4ssp/includes/fetchr.class.php on line 10

Any idea what I’ve done wrong or what’s going on? I did check with my hosting company and found out that my site is currently running PHP in something called ’safe mode’. I’m not sure if that would make a difference.

Any help would be appreciated.

cheers,
Dan

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:04:45 +0000

Twenty pics is lame! Fetchr can fetch you 500 per album!

Yes, Fetchr4SSP lets you choose which Flickr size image to fetch for both your thumbnails and your full-size pics. I have mine set to “Medium” for thumbnails and “Original” for full-size… but you’re right, the originals can take a while to load, and usually Medium is fine.

I also have a size option in Fetchr called “Biggest” that will fetch the biggest Flickr photosize available (Original if available, otherwise Large if available, otherwise Medium). I also have a similar size option called “Bigger” that will fetch Large if available, otherwise Original if available, otherwise Medium.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:43:32 +0000

Hi Steve,
I’ve been messing around with Slideshow pro to stream flickr photosets to a nice gallery interface, came up against the 20 image limitation of the flickr feeds & then found your script, hurray!

Can you tell me if it’s possible to specify the size of the image to load from flickr? i.e. the 500px wide ‘medium’ version would be appropriate. I’ve found SSP grabs the originals by default which can be very large and therefore take a long time to load.
Many thanks, A.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:46:52 +0000

Version 1.3 is out!

* Added option for an album of Flickr group photos
* Added option for an album of photos filtered by specific tags
* Added option for an album of a user’s “most interesting” photos (according to Flickr)
* Switched method of specifying a Flickr user from their Flickr username to the Flickr user ID

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:54:42 +0000

Ok great, I emailed you. Can’t wait to try out groups with Fetchr4SSP.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:13:58 +0000

Email me.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:58:55 +0000

Awesome! How do I get it?

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:55:50 +0000

I have completed the ability to display a group’s photo pool. (and a few other goodies)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:10:37 +0000

I’m starting to understand it a little better now. My php are timing out after 50 seconds, but I can simply refresh the XML about 4 or 5 times and it builds my images.xml file that way.

As far as collections go for Flickr hopefully there will be an implementation soon for API. I would pay for the ability of group api. I could start a group and it would certainly help out a good deal. Let me know if you are able to get group API working for Flickr and I will pay for that. Thanks for your help.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:43:06 +0000

I just checked the Flickr API and they don’t support fetching photos/photosets from a collection. That’s crazy!? I joined their API discussion group and apparently they’ve been talking about providing this for a WHILE, but they haven’t yet.