Widget for displaying SmugMug photos on my website

mveerman

I need a widget that will allow me to syndicate all public photos assigned to a SmugMug keyword on a website. I manage the website for a local bicycle club and I was thinking that I could create a unique keyword for photos so people in the club can add their pictures to the club website by simply assigning the keyword to their photos.

The problem is that most of the embedding widgets are blog-platform specific and I haven't had much luck with Google/forum/SmugMug wiki searches. There are too many options and I don't have all day to filter through the options.

The website has access to PHP, but it seems to me that a Javascript only solution should also work.

I want the widget to display the photos, have forward/back/pause buttons, and possibly some different options for what happens when you click on an image.

Thanks!
Mark

wellman

mveerman wrote:

I need a widget that will allow me to syndicate all public photos assigned to a SmugMug keyword on a website. I manage the website for a local bicycle club and I was thinking that I could create a unique keyword for photos so people in the club can add their pictures to the club website by simply assigning the keyword to their photos.

The problem is that most of the embedding widgets are blog-platform specific and I haven't had much luck with Google/forum/SmugMug wiki searches. There are too many options and I don't have all day to filter through the options.

The website has access to PHP, but it seems to me that a Javascript only solution should also work.

I want the widget to display the photos, have forward/back/pause buttons, and possibly some different options for what happens when you click on an image.

Thanks!
Mark

You're looking for SmugMug's embeddable flash slideshow. First, take this URL below and substitute your nickname and your desired keyword in the brackets:

http://api.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=userkeyword&NickName=[nickname]&Data=[keyword]&format=atom03

Now take that URL over into my SmugMug Flash Slideshow Builder. You'll end up with some embeddable HTML. Let me know if this works for you.

darryl

But Flash is so *heavy*. It's just images!

Google's got a nice AJAX slide show widget and it works with SmugMug feeds with a modicum of tweaking required. And it loads fast!

The widget code and documentation is here:
http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/

Here's a discussion of the minor tweaks DevBobo had to make to get it to work with SmugMug feeds:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=64482&page=3

I don't think we ever posted a simple HOWTO on what to cut and paste, so you should just look at my example (which is based on the discussion) and View Source to get the code:
http://www.darryl.com/googleslide.html

It's currently set to use the Popular Photos feed for dgrin.smugmug.com

ebswift

At some point I'm thinking about making my Smugfoto app able to be plugged into websites as well as facebook. Smugfoto will show a hierarchical structure the same as is stored in SmugMug, along with click-through galleries. The requirement will be a .Net Framework site or probably Mono. Most of the work is already done, I'll post on these forums when I get to it.

Andy

You might try our Badge Creator:
http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/2009/07/02/be-social-uploader/