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Building Flickr Applications with PHP teaches you how to use todays most popular online photo management system. You'll learn to work with both your own photos and Flickrs enormous cache, and create new and compelling extensions to the Flickr platform. This book is a great pick because
- Its written by experienced developer Rob Kunkle and Phlickr developer Andrew Morton.
- You'll learn how to use the PHP API Phlickr to write and retrieve photos.
- Flicker is growing quickly in popularity in the online photo management world.
Using the popular PHP-driven Phlickr API in conjunction with MySQL, you'll discover how to take advantage of open source tools like PHP, Apache, and MySQL, as well as the Flickr architecture, to manage, retrieve, and format photos in imaginative ways. You'll also learn how to build upon Flickrs photo collaboration features to create interfaces for working with others on photo album projects. And you'll learn how to format Flickr tags, taking advantage of RSS to distribute photo updates.
Table des matières
A short Introduction to Flickr, Open APIs, the Creative Commons and "The Pro-Am revolution".- Flickr's Features.- Getting ready: Preparing your Development Environment.- Introducing PHP.- Worth a thousand words: Working with Flickr Photos.- Get organized. Working with Flickr Photosets.- Bring collaboration to your website: Working with Flickr groups.- Semantic Tags and what they mean to you: Working with Flickr Tags.- Writing data to Flickr.- RSS Feed and Syndication.- Appendix - API Functions, XML-RPC, SOAP, REST.- Glossary.
A propos de l'auteur
Andrew Morton, geboren 1953, hat sich als Biograph einen Namen gemacht. 1997 sorgte sein Buch "Diana. 1961 1997. Ihre wahre Geschichte in ihren eigenen Worten" weltweit für Aufsehen. Für seine Arbeit wurde Andrew Morton mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. "Author of the Year", "Investigative Journalist of the Year" und "Scoop of the Year".
Résumé
The Definitive Guide to Flickr is the first book allowing you to take advantage of both your photos and Flickr's enormous cache, to create new and compelling extensions to the Flickr platform. Using the popular PHP-driven "Phlickr" API in conjunction with MySQL, you’ll discover how to take advantage of open source tools (like PHP, Apache, and MySQL) and the Flickr architecture to manage, retrieve, and format photos in imaginitive ways.
