phpFlickrSynch 1.0

Overview

phpFlickrSynch is a PHP application that reads the metadata of your photos stored on Flickr, stores them in a local MySQL database, and gives you an API to let you play with those metadata.

Why using phpFlickrSynch rather than the Flickr API?

Because you appreciate to have a copy of all your Flickr data in a local database (think data portability),
Because you want to do complex mashups between Flickr data and data you host (and you feel dealing with Flickr XML API makes things too complex).
Because you feel performance is better when accessing local data rather than a web service.

Important: phpFlickrSynch doesn’t retrieve photos hosted on Flickr to store them on your local file system; it only deals with metadata.

phpFlickrSynch includes:

A local database that will store all the metadata of your photos,
A read-access API to the local database,
A backoffice that lets you synchronize your photo albums and belonging photos between Flickr and the local database,
The great phpFlickr API that is used to communicate with Flickr API.

Requirements

PHP 5.x (with PDO database access extension)
MySQL 5.x

How to install it?

Unzip the phpFlickrSynch package in a directory that can be read by your web server;
Create a database that will host the phpFlickrSynch tables;
Execute the SQL file named “/phpFlickrSynch/setup/create.sql” to create the phpFlickrSynch tables in your database;
Follow the phpFlickr authentication page to create your Flickr API Key, Secret and Token;
Register a Yahoo! GeoPlanet Application ID at the Yahoo! Developer Network site
Copy the “/phpFlickrSynch/phpFlickrSynch_config_sample.php” to “/phpFlickrSynch/phpFlickrSynch_config.php” and fill in the values (database connection, Flickr key, Yahoo App ID)
Access the backoffice at “/phpFlickrSynch/backoffice/” (it is recommended to protect access to the backoffice i.e: using .htaccess security); and get a quick introduction to this tool
Include the “/phpFlickrSynch/phpFlickrSynch.php” in any PHP file that will use the phpFlickrSynch API; and learn more how to use the API

Download

Download phpFlickrSynch 1.0

History

Mar, 3rd 2010 – Initial release

May 30, 2009

API • Flickr • PHP • phpFlickrSynch

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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hey...thanks for replying...my aim is to be able to store the metadata of photos from flickr database to a mysql database and then perform some search techniques on the mysql database...i have managed to complete the first six steps of installation of phpFlickrSynch that you have mentioned in your site...i am having problems with the last two...i would really appreciate your help because i am a debutant...when i run the config file (i am using Easyphp 5.3.3) i get errors like this :
"Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP-5.3.3\www\phpFlickr-2.3.1\phpFlickr.php on line 90
Strict Standards: Redefining already defined constructor for class Net_URL in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP-5.3.3\www\phpFlickr-2.3.1\PEAR\Net\URL.php on line 122
Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::getStaticProperty() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP-5.3.3\www\phpFlickr-2.3.1\PEAR\HTTP\Request.php on line 708"
but i am also getting the "manage photo albums" and "manage photo groups" icons...it is displayed on the same page as the errors shown above...i am able to create photo groups...after this i am a little confused...

Commented by nicolasleroy
on Oct 05, 2010 / 2pm

@simran You seem to have problems with the configuration of the phpFlickr library. You can find some support at http://phpflickr.com/forums/ ... On my side, I've never had such issues using XAMPP 1.7.2 ; maybe there is different configuration btw Easyphp 5.3.3 and XAMPP 1.7.2 ...

Commented by shalini
on Oct 07, 2010 / 4pm

Thank You sir I was able to add groups but when i click on Manage photo albums it show nothing
What is th reason of this??

Commented by nicolasleroy
on Oct 08, 2010 / 9am

@shalini the "Manage photo albums" should retrieve all the Flickr albums available on the Flickr account you've set up in the "phpFlickrSynch_config.php" file. Does this account contain album on Flickr site? Have you correctly set up this account in the "phpFlickrSynch_config.php" file?

Commented by shalini
on Oct 13, 2010 / 10am

i have photo albums in my flickr account but they are nt displayed in local database
what is the correct thing?
plz guide us........

Commented by nicolasleroy
on Oct 15, 2010 / 9am

@shalini When you access the phpFlickrSynch backoffice, are you seeing the list of photo albums from your Flickr account? If not, I would suggest you reading this configuration page - http://phpflickr.com/docs/flickr-authentication/ - to properly configure access to Flickr.

Commented by Danielle
on Nov 05, 2010 / 4pm

Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for your great app, look very promissing. I'm trying to install it and I'm stuck at the Yahoo! ID. I've got two question:
1) What should I fill in at "BBAuth Success URL:" ?
2) What is the "required access scope"? These are the choises:
The user will be prompted to grant access every time he logs in:
Single Sign On, No user data can be accessed
Yahoo! Taiwan Lifestyle with Read/Write access
Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Taiwan Knowledge Plus
BOSS Search Service

TIA for your help. Best, Danielle

Commented by nicolasleroy
on Nov 05, 2010 / 7pm

@danielle Not sure to understand which part of the Flickr registration process asks you for those details ... I know you have to use the following page to create your Flickr key:
http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply/?

The "required access scope" has to be "write (but also read".
If it asks for a "success URL", let's put the domain name on which you will use phpFlickrSynch (i.e: http://www.nicolasleroy.fr in my case)

Hope it helps,
Nicolas

Commented by Shalini Gangwar
on Jul 06, 2011 / 2pm

Sir with what other technologies we can make the same application
i would be very gareteful to you if you kindly let me know about it

Commented by danielle
on Feb 17, 2013 / 3pm

Hi Nicolas,

After a long time I've picked up working with flickrSynch again. I've changed hosting but all the files and databases were copied exactly. When I now try to open the flickrSynch backend I get a blank screen (except for the Manage photo albums and Manage photo groups buttons). When I look in the error log the following error is reported:
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/var/www/vhosts/website.nl/httpdocs/web/test/phpFlickrSynch/phpFlickr-2.3.1/PEAR') in /var/www/vhosts/website.nl/httpdocs/web/test/phpFlickrSynch/phpFlickr-2.3.1/PEAR/HTTP/Request.php on line 50
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/var/www/vhosts/website.nl/httpdocs/web/test/phpFlickrSynch/phpFlickr-2.3.1/PEAR') in /var/www/vhosts/website.nl/httpdocs/web/test/phpFlickrSynch/phpFlickr-2.3.1/PEAR/HTTP/Request.php on line 50
(I've made the address anonymous in this error)

I've already tried modifying the path from PEAR.php to ../PEAR.php but that doesn't help. Do have any suggestions on how to solve this? Thanks very much in advance for your help. Best, danielle.

Commented by nicolasleroy
on Feb 18, 2013 / 1pm

Hi Danielle,
No real clue - I'm using phpFlickr out of the box ; but I wouldn't be surprised if your host already has PEAR installed ; which could explain the problem ?
Nicolas

Commented by danielle
on Feb 20, 2013 / 9am

Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for your input. I've contacted the hosting provider. Indeed they had PEAR already installed and they had to set the path to that library. All is working now. Best, d

phpFlickrSynch 1.0

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