Hey,

Integrated the picasa module into my site, and patched it to use CURL as opposed to file_get_contents...

I've been trying to tweak it to authenticate with the ClientLogin API for GData but I'm having difficulty because the parsing code for the feed I'm not sure is able to handle it.

So the ability to access Private albums would be a nice new Feature!!

We could possibly integrate with the Zend_Gdata API to do the authentication, but it might not be totally necessary

cheers,
Andrew

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cyberswat commented

I'd like to take full advantage of the Picasa API and ultimately integrate all of the functionality provided. The first release was simply to get something out there while the second is focusing on full consumption and storage of the readable data. I'm working now on exposing the data to the Views and CCK modules. I'm going to research this when I can get to it, but am posting some refrence material if anyone would like to take the initiative:

My immediate concerns about the Zend framework is "Zend Gdata requires a minimum PHP version of 5.1.4." ... I'm not convinced it is a good idea to force this requirement on Drupal users that would like to use the Picasa Module. Maybe it makes sense to provide a Drupal module that works in the same capacity as the Zend work and serves as a generic gateway to Google's API's for Drupal modules?

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andrew404 commented

Sorry I took so long to respond...
I agree with you on the PHP version point, I don't think anything being done should necessarily require using a particular version of PHP.

As to using the Zend_GData framework, at this point it does not support the Picasa API anyways.... I was just using the authentication api's from it..... limited success though. I believe the XML parsing code you wrote might have to be tweaked a bit to handle Private Albums.

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cyberswat commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

There is moderate google auth support starting to appear which will allow for us to insert photos, albums, etc into Picasa ... I can query for public albums only and do not consider it a hgih priority to list unpublished items until Drupal 6