By Shai on

Can anyone explain or send me to more verbose instructions for the Flickr module. I installed the API key and secret code. I tried to add flickr content to a node according to the way the filter is supposed to work and nothing happens.

Thanks,

Shai

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jim_fulford commented

I installed this today and had same issue. I'm using Drupal 5.1 and installeed Flikr, Put in API key and Secret fine. I didn't like my flikr username. But even when I added Random Flikr to the Bock section, I get nothing on any screen. Please help.

Thanks
JimF

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muddy commented

On a fresh install of 5.1, I'm having trouble getting this module to work.

Sometimes a "Flickr random images" block appears, but it is intermittent.

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hayesr commented

Does anyone know if the phpFlickr is required for this module to work?

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gurukripa commented

Hi

Me too..not working...i managed to get a slideshow done from slide.com using some images from flickr..but thats a different story..

what i need is a facility by which my users can upload their images on flickr or some place..and have a code linking their user page to that site....

this way i save hosting space..and users can display as many pictures as they like.

any ideas on this???

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Shai commented

Use a combination of the blog and blogApi modules (they both come as part of the standard Drupal install -- you just need to turn them on -- no installation required). Then you must enable a user group which includes the people you want posting photos to create blog posts. You do this at: Admin-->Access Control.

Your user needs to set up the relationship between their Flickr account and their "blog" on your site. They do that by going to: http://flickr.com/blogs_add.gne. There they need to know to select "MetaWeblogAPI Enabled Blog" from the drop down menu. Click "Next" and they'll find a screen with three fields. The first is the "API Endpoint". There you put: http://put-your-web-site-URL-here.com/xmlrpc.php replacing "put-your-web-site-URL-here.com" with your actual web URL. The user name and password are the the user names and passwords belonging to the user at your Drupal site.

At that point the user can go to ANY Flickr photo that has "blog this" enabled and be able to post it to your site. The description field automatically goes in to the post. The photo is linked back to its photo page. The user can choose from among various display formats (you don't have control over this).

I don't believe this will work if the node input type is the out-of-the-box "filtered HTML" that a Drupal install has by default. So you'll need to adjust that.

If you don't want to do this via Drupal's blog module, you can create a custom node type using Flexinode (or in 5 straight from a built-in module???) which will be the node type that accepts these "blogs" from Flickr. The blogApi module has to be turned on whether you use Drupal's blog module or not. You'll need to make sure that your users have permission to create the custom node you have just created. After the user has established the "blog" at Flickr the person edits the settings to tell it to blog to the custom node type instead of to Drupal's blog. Go to this page: http://flickr.com/blogs.gne and choose"settings". There is a field there called, "Blog Label" and it will say: blog
Change "blog" to the name of the new node type that you have just created....

and you're golden.

This blogApi thing is VERY COOL.

Write back if you have more questions or if something isn't working.

Shai
http://everydayandeverynight.com/

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gurukripa commented

you said that filtered html wil not work..thats right..i tried..i had to make it full html.
will this compromise the safety of the site?
someone said if you enable php then a smart guy can control your site..is that true?
is the same true for full html?

another thing is ..can i specifically allow this for some users...like i allow only them to use full html...i mean enable them to have default setting of full html...so that when they post by email or from flickr..then it naturally works...

one issue i found was that email directly to blog is not working..i mean doing it thru flickr...i am able to email and upload to flikr by email..but not to the blog thru flickr by email...

do help.

i want to make a photo blog...where group members can see all pictures...and they can send it by email to the Group Home Page....so i tried to send from flickr to the group page..but it ended up making each blog entry into a new group!!!!! that was chaotic....any way out of this...

i dont want to store so many pictures on my hard drive :)

thanks for reading..

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zep3xvii commented

.. instead of the contributed module called Flickr module.

The process you described that uses the blogAPI thing (and I agree it is cool but it's pretty standard for most CMSes by now) has nothing to do with the Flickr module. Although what you described is pretty useful for anyone who wants to blog about photos on Flickr.

However, does anybody else here understand how Flickr module is supposed to work? I too have faced the same problems as described above.

Also does this module do the things that Flickr Rippr is trying to do? Because Flickr Rippr sounds really cool, once it's out of alpha. I can't get that module to do what it claims either. Any help would be appreciated!

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exhook commented

Never mind, Did not work

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jr.duboc commented

I tried it out tonight on my website, and it works wonders: http://duboc.me/en/images.

Thanks for that !

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eagereyes commented

Once the settings page shows a green message, the blocks should work. You have to fill out the second page on the Flickr API pages to activate the key. Enter your user name, and have the Flickr module check it. Then try adding one of the blocks, that should work.

For embedding images using the [flickr-photoset:id=72157594262419167,size=m] syntax, you need to activate the Flickr filter under Administration/Site configuration/Input formats, and then click on the format you want to use (filtered or full HTML). If there is no Flickr linker filter there, you have to go to the modules page and activate the Flickr filter module (Site building/Modules).

For a photo set, the module only inserts one image, and links to Flickr. A functionality more like AcidFree would be cool, that would actually make the gallery work on your site, but link back to Flickr for the images. And obviously, a bit more documentation would help ...

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jparp commented

I have a base install of Drupal 5.1. I tried both the official release, and the dev snapshot of the Flickr module.

I could not get the blocks to work with either.

I have enabled the module, and configured the settings. I can embed images in drupal nodes using the Flickr filter. I verified my API key is working correctly, and i even tested it successfully with phpFlicker.

Is there anything else that could be going wrong? The blocks do not apear at all, not even the block headings.

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drewish commented

did you enable the filter on the input format you were trying to use? hit up the admin > settings > input-filter and add it.

regarding the blocks, we fixed a bunch of bugs in the last month. grab the new 5.1 release and try it out.

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NayusDante commented

I'm having a similar problem. I can get the random photos to appear in my block (pulling from my flickr account), but on my "My Account" page, there's tons of "Flickr account not found in users database" type errors. I checked my database and there's not tables for flickr. Anybody know what this is about?