New to the API, need help diving in

sbressler

Hi there, I'm brand new to the SmugMug API (but an SM user of almost a year) and would like some help building a tiny app to help me dive into the SM API. I want the homepage of my website (www.scottbressler.com) to list all of my SM galleries with a thumbnail of each, basically like the galleries page (2nd homepage) or just the Galleries section of an SM homepage. Yes, I know this is trivial and worthless to the world, but I figure it's a good way to start messing around with the API and get some experience.

Any tips of how I would go about doing this? Would I need to use PHP? What would you recommend? Also, when will applications for API keys be open again?

TIA!!

sbressler

Bump. No one has any advice?

asozzi

sbressler wrote:

Bump. No one has any advice?

Personally I would go and try to write a small javascript application to do this. But if you prefer php that would certainly do the trick too.
The difference being that php gets executed on your server while the javascript is client side.

So on second thought...try php so you can cache the results.

Here are some starter pages:

JS Articles

• SmugLuv, Pannable view of gallery, Mootoools http://www.gravitycube.net/SmugLuv/
• Browser SmugGallery from any page http://web.rerenderer.com/randrenderer/index.html
• jQuery plugin for Flickr http://benjaminsterling.com/jquery-jqalbumparser-plugin-parses-out-flickr-picasa-clientside/

PHP Articles

• phpSmug, PHP wrapper for the Smug API http://www.lildude.co.uk/projects/phpsmug/