Build a Photo Gallery Using CakePHP and Flickr

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Great tutorial, but I wish there was a finished example to see at the end. Am I missing something?

dude... cakephp suxs , it doesnt have aported anything good to PHP, so please just stop making articles about cakephp,
you should talk about zend or codeigniter
thanks

[saumendra]

Great Article!.
Even google has come up with an API with the same structural and functional properties

very informative article, thanks

i look forward to see more articles about Cake from sitepoint.

Nice article! CakePHP is a great framework, looking forward to your next tutorial =) Thanks!

Thanks for the great article. That's some really simple but slick Javascript code. Very nice!

CakePHP rocks!

Hi there, could you give any working examples of this Flickr/Cake web app? I'd love to see one in action... thanks.

super cool! This will be an awesome addition to my image gallery script...have an option to setup a gallery by pulling in a flickr feed instead of uploading images... or maybe in addition to.

thanks for posting!

i cant make it work :(

kilinkis

[katu]

I couldn't get this to work either. I don't think the tutorial is very clear. I appreciate all the effort in the tutorial but at the end of the day i've spent hours following something that doesen't work

[jonathansnook]

If you are continuing to have issues, you can reach me via my site and I can step you through any issues you might be having.

It took me while to get this to work, but I did get it working. Maybe, that's because I'm new to CakePHP.

The line that deals with routing needs to be updated because the syntax has changed from:

$Route->connect('/gallery/*',
array('controller' => 'gallery', 'action'=>'index'));

to

Router::connect('/gallery/*', array('controller' => 'gallery', 'action'=>'index'));

Other than that. I think this was an awesome tutorial. The CakeFlickr component for PHPFlickr is genius. I'm definitely going to use it for other projects.

nice! i will definitely use this, thanks

This tutorial outputs the thumbnails in an unordered list, for those who wish to display the images in a table here is some code you can modify to suit your needs:

$total_records = count($thumbs['photo']); // the number of records in your result set

$num_cols = 5; // the number of columns
$num_rows = ceil($total_records / $num_cols); // the number of rows
$num = 0; // don't change this value, this is the first number of each record inside a record set

echo "<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"10\">\n";
// next the loop for the table rows
for ($rows = 0; $rows < $num_rows; $rows++) {
echo "<tr>\n";
// this is the loop for the table columns
for ($cols = 0; $cols < $num_cols; $cols++) {
if ($num < $total_records) { // show records if available (reduce by one because the first record is no. "0" (zero)
// first create variables with the values of the current record
$href = $flickr->buildPhotoURL($thumbs['photo'][$num], 'medium');
$thum = $flickr->buildPhotoURL($thumbs['photo'][$num], 'thumbnail');
$title = $thumbs['photo'][$num]['title'];
echo "<td><a href=\"".$href."\"title=\"".$title."\" rel=\"lightbox[]\"><img src=\"".$thum."\"></a><td>\n";

} else { // show an empty cell
echo "<td>&nbsp;</td>\n";
}
$num++; // raise the number by one for the next record
}
echo "</tr>\n"; // there are no more cols in this row, close the table row tag
}
echo "</table>\n"; // end of the region = closing tag for the table element
?>

Hi,

I am new to all this and can't get it working.. I followed all the steps above.. am getting the following error.. please help:

Missing Method in GalleryController

You are seeing this error because the action index is not defined in controller GalleryController

If you want to customize this error message, create app/views/errors/missing_action.thtml.

Fatal: Confirm you have created the GalleryController::index() in file : app/controllers/gallery_controller.php

<?php
class GalleryController extends AppController {
function index() {
}
}
?>

Note that the Flickr Component linked to above needs to be updated to no longer use the vender() function. That line should be replaced with:

App::import('Vendor', 'phpFlickr', array('file' => 'phpflickr'.DS.'phpFlickr'.DS.'phpFlickr.php'));

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