One Flickr module to "Rule Them ALL"

coreb - November 7, 2006 - 20:59

Why are there 3 modules for adding Flickr Support to a site? (See: Flickr module, Flickr, flickrhood)

AFAIK, they all seem to do the same thing. Why can't these three quit duplicating their effort, and work together?

Offtopic: This seems to make a good case for why there should be some sort of "preferred contrib modules" repository rather than regular contrib. How in the world is a new users supposed to know which one of these module to use? They all show up in the downloads section for 4.7 modules, and all appear to do the same thing.

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sepeck - November 7, 2006 - 21:57

We encourage collaboration (http://drupal.org/node/23789) but that is up to the contributors. Out of curiosity, have you actually tried them? If so is there a difference or did you just decide after reading the descriptions? If you've tried them, then perhaps you can give a review of them? Otherwise it may be that they have different methods of achieving a similar goal and those differences would have an impact.

If we prevent people from working on their own itch, then we get accused of 'stifling innovation' (which I have several other alternative meanings for but won't repeat here :) and people post rants on that as well.

Off topic: People keep saying things like this without actually getting involved to actually work on things like this. While not a preferred repository, other tools are getting some groundwork stuff done to improve the information visible to folks on various module stats. You too can help out with this. (http://drupal.org/node/77562)

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Guilty as charged

coreb - November 8, 2006 - 22:38

I've only installed flickrhood, but that was before he decided to develop for Drupal 5.0. I will try to get a test site up to determine what their differences are and give a (fair) review of them.

As for the off topic part, I'm interested in helping improve that, but it appears dww is almost finished with it. Since I don't have a CVS account and am not a module dev, I don't think I can test out scratch.drupal.org . I'm not trying to make excuses not to help, but w/o module implementation experience, I don't know where I can jump in. I may ping dww later to see where I can help.

maybe...

marlowx - December 22, 2006 - 20:33

we could rate modules somehow? this might help people new to drupal figure out which module to try first when there are several similar ones?

or perhaps even a download count might be a good way of easily showing which ones are more popular?

i am pretty new at this and for me it takes a lot of work/time to even test a module...

anyone want to recommend a Flickr module for me to try first?

i installed Flickrhood but it looks like i need something called an API??? is that some kind of license or something?

i'm running drupal 4.7x but might upgrade to 5 if that is recommended...

http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/

Some of this information is

coreb - December 27, 2006 - 00:53

Some of this information is a little dated. Flickrhood hasn't had any changes made to it since November 16, but has versions for 4.7 and 5.0. I haven't tested them, though.

The authors of Flickr and Flickr module will be merging their work together. The "Flickr module" module will not release a version for Drupal 5.0. The "Flickr" module will be where the work will be continued.

As for needing an API key, go here to get it when you are logged in to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/keys/apply/

It'll ask some questions, but you will be given the key immediately.

OMG, thank you so much!

marlowx - December 27, 2006 - 13:02

thanks for explaining that for me!

here is another question as reading through all the various modules has got me so confused...

which flickr module supports multiple flickr accounts? what i mean is, i would like to have the users of my site be able to show their flickr photos on their profile page or on our drupal gallery and blocks on the side etc etc...

thanks again for your help!

I think this was

coreb - December 28, 2006 - 02:17

I think this was flickrhood's original intention. I never tried it with multiple accounts since it was for a personal site.

I'm testing the "Flickr" module out, and it does support a user adding a flickr NSID to their profile. It doesn't show all users sets when I click photosets, though. It's probably a future feature.

 
 

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