Feed-based photo blog

jlhurd

So I've been really wanting to start a simple photo blog for a while, but I wanted to have it be fairly automated and working off of the smugmug framework. Tried some boxed solutions out there, but none of them seemed to fit my needs, so I decided to make my own.

I've got a reallyl basic model down. It reads a smugmug feed (keyword based), and cranks out the images, displaying them in order of reverse image number (which corresponds to date posted). Has basic next and previous links on the bottom. I've also got a thumbnail system, with a cropping system I made (which is slow and doesn't cache as of now).

So if people want to give it a whirl, tell me what they think, that would be great. I plan on releasing the code in a fairly finalized form when I get everything worked out. But right now I'm seeking feedback, positive, negative, or if you just have an idea. Thanks!

Picture Blog (called spiclog):
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jhurd/spiclog/spiclog.php

Source files (including 3rd party xml parser):
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jhurd/spiclog/spiclog.zip

ewoolery

Cool!
Hey there-

I'm really interested to try this, but can't seem to get the download to work (zip corrupted?). Any hints? Thanks!!

jlhurd wrote:

So I've been really wanting to start a simple photo blog for a while, but I wanted to have it be fairly automated and working off of the smugmug framework. Tried some boxed solutions out there, but none of them seemed to fit my needs, so I decided to make my own.

I've got a reallyl basic model down. It reads a smugmug feed (keyword based), and cranks out the images, displaying them in order of reverse image number (which corresponds to date posted). Has basic next and previous links on the bottom. I've also got a thumbnail system, with a cropping system I made (which is slow and doesn't cache as of now).

So if people want to give it a whirl, tell me what they think, that would be great. I plan on releasing the code in a fairly finalized form when I get everything worked out. But right now I'm seeking feedback, positive, negative, or if you just have an idea. Thanks!

Picture Blog (called spiclog):
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jhurd/spiclog/spiclog.php

Source files (including 3rd party xml parser):
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jhurd/spiclog/spiclog.zip

areyoubg

ewoolery wrote:

Hey there-

I'm really interested to try this, but can't seem to get the download to work (zip corrupted?). Any hints? Thanks!!

Ahhh, right. This is where I initially saw that great integration of smugmug feed with ajax action. But like ewoolery says above its all a bust since the zip won't download.

Come on JL, your hurting us! (TIA, of course!)

P.S., I bet you could just attach the files right into a post here, since they aren't usually that big...JDK.

jlhurd

My other post largely deals with this now. I don't know if moderators can merge the two threads, but if you're interested in the feed-based photo blog, check out the other post. It has links to files that you can actually download.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52002