December 0822

flickr photos page

I know I've only just said that I wouldn't be posting for the next couple of weeks... but I had a few hours spare today and so set to adding Danny Douglass's flickr gallery package to my site.

The instructions for installing didn't make sense at first, but once I had created a flickr API key, the associated flickr shared secret and discovered my flickr Username (which isn't what I use to login with, which is why it was confusing for me) I thought I'd be good to go. However its not as simple as that. Testing locally a message kept coming up telling me to configure my flickr settings in the web.config; well I thought I had, so tried various combinations of things but nothing worked. Luckily in the comments for the post someone had mentioned similar problems and the suggested solution was to configure a CachePath. To add the CachePath I needed to add a new section to my <configSections>


then granted NETWORK_SERVICE the relevant permissions over my cacheLocation folder. 

This got the package up and running - now all I need to do to display my photos on my site is to grant eveyone permissions to see the photos I want to appear. Those that are marked as private or only for Friends and Family will not get shown. Very nice.

Comments

  1. United States bolsa de trabajo (Saturday, February 07, 2009) # bolsa de trabajo

    nice.

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