Integration w/ other modules and Views plugins?

I started in on an integration with imagecache, but quickly ran into trouble because imagecache does not work with remote images. Flickr Attatch could retrieve a local copy of the flickr image and then cache that, but I'm not sure when I'll have time to add that functionality along with thickbox and lightbox2.

I was able to retrieve attached images using the following view. Note that flickr_attach support for photo albums is very limited.

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'flickr_attach_gallery';
$view->description = '';
$view->tag = '';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'image_id' => array(
    'label' => 'Image',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 1,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'text' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'image_id',
    'table' => 'node_flickr_images',
    'field' => 'image_id',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'display' => '3',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
  'type' => array(
    'operator' => 'in',
    'value' => array(
      'page' => 'page',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'type',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'type',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));

I'm glad that you found the previous post to be helpful.

Flickr Attach has limited support for flickr albums because we haven't settled on the approach. I would like to add a views argument that pulls each image in as a separate record, but I haven't had time to experiment with views and remote data sources.

Unfortunately, it would be a major jump to support multiple flickr images for a single node. You might consider the following approach for your current situation.

1. Created two content types.
   • Flickr Image node type which would contain a title, and attached image, and any other fields that might be related to these flickr images.
   • Flickr Container node type, which has a title field and a node reference field for flickr image nodes.
2. Create a block view that takes a node id as an argument, then use the node reference field as a relationship and display the flickr image for each related image
3. display the block view from the previous step on flickr container nodes.

does that make sense?

OR

You could use flickr_field which is bundled with the flickr module or perhaps emfield. There's a pretty cool patch for flickr_field here... I think this patch is required for ahah_helper if you go the patched flickr_field route.

Flickr Attach is not displayed in the "manage fields" tab for the content type because it is not a CCK field. You can make the flickr attachments required and shuffle the order of your node form using hook_form_alter(). I haven't tried this before, but you might have a look at Node form columns for adjusting the node form.

Re: comment #6
Actually, cck exposes hook_content_extra_fields expressly for this purpose.
Fully undocumented, in classic cck style.

Try this patch

I am able to get the Album ID from a View I created. (Flickr Attach Field in Views)

But how can I output the images of the Album?