There have been a few people that have already let me know that FancyFlickr doesn’t work with hidden/private photos. Unfortunately the class that I’m using to power the plugin doesn’t have any way to authenticate. This isn’t a huge problem, as I’ve found other classes that do authenticate. The only problem is that the only one that I’ve found and like so far requires PHP5 and PEAR. Here I’d like to ask what the users of the plugin think. Should I continue on the current path — without authentication, or should I switch to a new class with these strict requirements. I’m have no idea how many shared hosting companies support PEAR, but it should be hard to find out if your hosting company does. I’d also like to hear from other developers to get their take on which route to take.
Posts Tagged ‘PHP’
Addicted to Flickr
When I started working on FancyFlickr recently, I needed a PHP class to handle the flickr API. I quickly found that I didn’t like many of the classes that I found, for various reasons. I got lucky when I found Addicted to Flickr. The only problem with this one, was that he wrote the class over four years ago and there was some stuff that was quite outdated. The original URLs that it created were broken, which was the biggest problem for me. I rewrote it a little bit, at least so that part works now. So I’m putting it back out there for people to download if they want.
If you run into any problems let me know. If you rewrite any other parts of it, or write a new version, let me know. I’d love to have it for the fancyflickr plugin and to be able to link to it here.
Note: This is not FancyFlickr.
Family Tree
I’ve decided to try PHP. I’m creating an application to display genealogy information on your website. I’ve got the basic format down, finally, after buying “The PHP5 and MySQL Bible“. There is defiantly a lot of information in there. I should have this app done by tomorrow afternoon or Sunday, hopefully no later than that.
Update: I’ve decided that this might not be the first project that I want to take on… At first it seemed like a good idea, but as I’ve been sitting here reading my book, and thinking of different ways that I can use some of the code in here I’ve been wanting to start all different things and this Family Tree thing just doesn’t seem as interesting as it did yesterday. I think I’m going to start another project though.
Big Problems
Well I don’t know what caused this all to start, but whatever it was, it caused me a whole lot of trouble.
First, I couldn’t get the blog to show up. So I just restarted IIS and tried again. It didn’t work. So I restarted the server… Still nothing. Then I had an idea. I checked my home page and confirmed that something was wrong with my PHP installation. So I tried reinstalling it. I still couldn’t get it to work. For some reason it’s not easy to get PHP installed on an IIS server. I uninstalled and reinstalled PHP several times before deciding that this method wouldn’t work.
Then, I thought, if I can somehow get Apache installed on this server it would probably save me a lot of trouble. The only problem was that I’ve never been able to successfully install Apache on a Windows system — or on any system for that matter. I tried testing it on my computer. The first couple times I tried it didn’t really install. It would install the Apache Monitor, but no services would be installed. So I Googled it. I never really found the real reason why no services would install, but eventually I found a guide to installing Apache, and it gave me a different download site than the one I had been using. It was still Apache’s website, just a different page, with a list of a couple different versions.
After that, I installed Apache on my server, successfully, setup the default directory and default documents and it worked. Then I had to install PHP. I uninstalled the PHP that was already on there. Got rid of all the files, and then reinstalled it for an Apache server. Once I setup the extensions directory and added all the extensions it worked.
WordPress worked right away. I was very happy. Some of my other PHP scripts still don’t work yet. Like PHP weather, and Gallery2. It doesn’t really matter though, becuase PHP weather didn’t work right before anyway, so maybe now I’ll get it working properly. And I still have all the pictures that were in my gallery, and I still have the theme that I was using, so all I have to do is reinstall the Gallery and put the photos back in and put the theme back on there. It shouldn’t take too long.
Overall I’m not really mad that this happend. Other than the two hours or so of down time of course. But I finally got Apache installed and that will really help me a lot. If anybody knows what the download site I was talking about is, please post it on here. If anybody needs it, and nobody else has posted it yet, I could probably find it again.
