URLs for albums

Locke

Hey Guys,

I'm really new at using the API so maybe I'm just missing something. What I want to do is have a PHP function on my blog that will get the URLs for my SmugMug galleries via the API so I can feed them into an unordered list as links. I was looking at albums.get and albums.getinfo but it seems they do not expose that information. Is there another way to go about this? or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks,
--Locke

SamirD

Are you using the phpsmug wrapper?

PBolchover

Could you possibly get them from an RSS feed? Or by querying the yoursite.smugmug.com/iphone page?

Locke

SamirD,

Yes, I am using the wrapper. This is what I have so far:

$albums = $f->albums_get('NickName=name','Heavy=1');
$images = $f->images_get("AlbumID={$albums}", "Heavy=1");
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($images as $pic) {
echo '<li><a href="'.$pic.'">'.$albums.'</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';

The above gets me 23 links (one for each pic in the album) that look similar to this:

http://name.smugmug.com/Projects/album/10825351_hKBR9#768867522_sCffc

http://name.smugmug.com/Projects/album/10825351_hKBR9#768867507_pNzL3

That has been my solution so far since the images.get in the API contains the URL. The problem I'm faced with now is digging into the array prior to the loop that prints the links and stripping out the all the ID numbers for the image and then doing something like array_unique() so I only get one link per album.

SamirD

Hmmm...I'll have to look at the code you posted when I get a chance. In the meantime, check out this little app that does what you want (but not in real-time if that's what you're looking for): http://smugroom.com/tools/gallery-list/

Locke

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

SamirD

Locke wrote:

SamirD,

Yes, I am using the wrapper. This is what I have so far:

$albums = $f->albums_get('NickName=name','Heavy=1');
$images = $f->images_get("AlbumID={$albums}", "Heavy=1");
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($images as $pic) {
echo '<li><a href="'.$pic.'">'.$albums.'</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';

The above gets me 23 links (one for each pic in the album) that look similar to this:

http://name.smugmug.com/Projects/album/10825351_hKBR9#768867522_sCffc

http://name.smugmug.com/Projects/album/10825351_hKBR9#768867507_pNzL3

That has been my solution so far since the images.get in the API contains the URL. The problem I'm faced with now is digging into the array prior to the loop that prints the links and stripping out the all the ID numbers for the image and then doing something like array_unique() so I only get one link per album.

I think you've over coded it. There's a URL field available for the heavy response in 1.2.2 of the API. I haven't used it myself, but I think it would be perfect for what you are trying to do.

See what this gets you (you may have to adjust syntax as I haven't tested this code). It should be a list of all the album urls and the titles next to them:

$albums = $f->albums_get('NickName=name','Heavy=1');
foreach ($albums as $album)
{
$eventAlbums[] = "URL: {$album} Title: {$album}\n";
}
print "$eventAlbums";

Locke

Thanks,

I will give that a shot. Thanks for looking into it.

SamirD

Locke wrote:

Thanks,

I will give that a shot. Thanks for looking into it.

Let me know if it works.

I'm not a programmer, but I can figure out code if I have to. For me, practicing once a while doesn't hurt.