Comments on: jQuery Flickr

By: JFlickr free module for Joomla-- Blue Bamboo Joomla CMS Specialists

JFlickr free module for Joomla-- Blue Bamboo Joomla CMS Specialists — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:04:15 +0000

[...] The JFlickr module delivers a flickr gallery to your desktop using the excellent Jquery script from Project Atomic. You can display galleries based on a photoset, user id, group id or a free text search. You also [...]

By: Daniel MacDonald

Daniel MacDonald — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:50:31 +0000

I left the params setting as open as possible because it just gets tacked on to the end of the flickr request. Since it is at the end of a GET request, params must be prefixed with an ampersand, as in:

jQuery(function(){
  jQuery("#gallery-litebox").flickr({
    api_key: "your-api-key",
    params: "&min_taken_date=2007-08-04&max_taken_date=2008-08-04"
  });
});

Dates must be in mySql datetime format.

By: Jim G.

Jim G. — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:37:09 +0000

Can someone please post some example code that uses the ‘params’ argument?

I’m trying to use the ‘min_taken_date’ and ‘max_taken_date’ custom arguments in my own code.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:14:08 +0000

Has anyone had a stab at getting pagentation to work yet. Love this plugin and the would really complete it.

Thanks in advance
Pete

By: willwade

willwade — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:03:56 +0000

2 hacks for you. Randomise images and cutoff - that is only show a set number of images (works alongside randomise and per_page)
1. add this to lines 30 & 31 of the code (part of the var s = { code
randomise: false, // [bool] optional, randomise the array of images (willwade at gmail.com) cutoff: null // [integer] optional, set a cut off number.. use alongside per_page (willwade at gmail.com)
2. add this to lines 51 & 52 (once the above is inputted)
if (s.randomise) { r.photos.photo.sort(function() {return 0.5 - Math.random()}); } if (s.cutoff) { d = s.cutoff } else { d = r.photos.photo.length; }

By: Chad Crowell

Chad Crowell — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:29:08 +0000

Thanks for the update Daniel - but I am a pro member and have been for years. I did have some security settings I think that were keeping the originals from being available to “everyone”. Thanks.

By: Daniel MacDonald

Daniel MacDonald — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:25:11 +0000

[Chad] I did a little investigating on Flickr, and it seems you need to have a Pro (paid) account in order to make original format images available.

See: http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/?search=original+format#18

I have modified the Flickr plug-in to at least show the largest size image if the original is not available. Please download the latest version of the plug-in for the update.

By: Daniel MacDonald

Daniel MacDonald — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:16:18 +0000

[RJS] I'm using the following code on my Litebox post (condensed for clarity):

jQuery(function(){   
  jQuery("#gallery-litebox").flickr({     
    api_key: "your-api-key",     
    callback: liteboxCallback   
  }); 
}); 
function liteboxCallback(el){
  jQuery(el).litebox();
}

There was recently a pretty big change in the Flickr plug-in, native support for the Litebox plug-in was removed in favor of a more open callback method. Please make sure you have the latest version of the Flickr plug-in.

By: Chad Crowell

Chad Crowell — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:24:10 +0000

Hey I am using this script, and it works great, but even with the “o” original size attribute in the script, I am getting the 500px wide medium image. I have the originals set for availability.

Here are the 3 images I am trying to get the originals of:
http://flickr.com/photos/thecrowells/sets/72157605707038041/

And here is my call for the script:
//load the pictures from flickr
$(”#home-pics”).flickr({
api_key: “12345678901234567890″,
type: “photoset”,
photoset_id: “72157605707038041″,
thumb_size: “s”,
size: “o”,
callback: runSlideshow
});

As I said its all working great but I can’t ge tthe originals. Help?

By: RJS

RJS — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:56:34 +0000

Hi
I have the jQuery Flickr plugin working. It’s really great, thanks. I’m sorry I don’t understand how to get the jQuery Litebox element working with the Flickr plugin. Do you have an example of it working somewhere? I have Litebox working imdependently of the Flickr plugin.
Thanks in advance. RJS