phpFlickr as a Library

Posted: 13 August 2007 11:29 AM

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I’m new to CI and I’ve been fooling around with it. I really like what I see but i was wondering if I could get some help.

I’ve been trying to load the phpFlickr class as a lib and i keep on getting the “Unable to load the requested class: phpflickr”. It’s in the libraries folder. I’ve tried passing the params in different ways but no luck.

This is the way i’m loading it in my controller

$params = array('api_key' => '<MyAPI-KEY>', 'secret' => NULL, 'die_on_error' => 'false' );

        $this->load->library('phpFlickr', $params); 

Can anybody see what i’m doing wrong.

Thanks

Rik

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gerben

Posted: 27 September 2007 07:59 AM

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I had the same problem, but solved it by hardcoding my API-key in the class:

function phpFlickr ($api_key = ‘<MY API KEY>’, $secret = NULL, $die_on_error = false)

Not the most elegant way, but it works.

Also make sure the PEAR-library folder is in your libraries folder, otherwise phpFlickr won’t find it.

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Posted: 02 May 2008 07:27 AM

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after looking at this i still personally get the phpFlickr class to load

i get

An Error Was Encountered
Unable to load the requested class: phpflickr

I’ve hand coded my api into the class to see if that works with no joy

any ideas

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Posted: 02 May 2008 07:54 AM

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I forgot to put a capital letter on the front of the class

So it loads now but i’m not getting this.

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined property: Flickr_test::$phpFlickr

Filename: controllers/flickr_test.php

Line Number: 18

Fatal error: Call to a member function photos_getRecent() on a non-object in /home/fhlinux162/o/our-atelier.co.uk/user/htdocs/application/controllers/flickr_test.php on line 18

I’m uing the example the phpFlickr gives

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Posted: 06 May 2008 05:12 PM

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in your controller are you calling a method from the library? If so, you’ll need to call it like so:

$this->phpflickr->photos_getRecent();

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Posted: 06 May 2008 05:19 PM

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yeah i am which is why its weird.

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mahuti

Posted: 06 May 2008 06:14 PM

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Can you post your controller code, or PM it.

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Posted: 07 May 2008 03:06 AM

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right it was because i was using so you were right ha ha ha


$this->phpFlickr->photos_getRecent();

instead of


$this->phpflickr->photos_getRecent();

Now thats working i’m not getting anything back at all which is now my next challange.

posted code

function index()
    {
    $this->load->library('phpFlickr');
    
    $recent = $this->phpflickr->photos_getRecent();
    print_r($recent);
    
    foreach ($recent['photo'] as $photo) {
        $owner = $this->phpflickr->people_getInfo($photo['owner']);
        echo "<a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/" . $photo['owner'] . "/" . $photo['id'] . "/'>";
        echo $photo['title'];
        echo "</a> Owner: ";
        echo "<a href='http://www.flickr.com/people/" . $photo['owner'] . "/'>";
        echo $owner['username'];
        echo "</a><br>";
    }
    
    } 

Its now throwing this error but i understand its because the foreach loop is empty

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

Filename: controllers/flickr.php

Line Number: 20

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Posted: 07 May 2008 04:27 PM

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So nothing happens when you var_dump it… nothing’s returned?

I guess the first thing I’d try is running the library outside of CodeIgniter and see if I get any traction.

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Posted: 05 September 2008 07:01 AM

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I had almost the same problem… i just found out, that the $params are not given correctly.

So i tried this:

$params['api_key'] = '<MY_API_KEY>';
    $params['secret'] = '<MY_SECRRET>';
    $this->load->library('phpflickr');
    $this->phpflickr->api_key = '<MY_API_KEY>';
    $this->phpflickr->secret = '<MY_SECRET>';
    $this->phpflickr->setToken('<MY_TOKEN>');
    
    $this->phpflickr->enableCache(
        "db",
        "mysql://user:pass@localhost/phpflickr",
        "600"
    ); 

okey… i had to set the apikey and the secret twice… but this just works out fine for me. =)

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