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I have written this little [[Mediawiki]] Extension to include [[Flickr]] thumbnails. This first example gets the X most interesting pictures (yes, Flickr really sorts like "sort"=>"interestingness-desc", by the users rating) for the tag you specify. You can use this to put some related pictures on Wiki pages that dont have pictures yet |
I have written this little [[Mediawiki]] Extension to include [[Flickr]] thumbnails. This first example gets the X most interesting pictures (yes, Flickr really sorts like "sort"=>"interestingness-desc", by the users rating) for the tag you specify. You can use this to '''instantly put some related pictures on Wiki pages that dont have pictures yet''. |
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Revision as of 12:20, 22 June 2006
I have written this little Mediawiki Extension to include Flickr thumbnails. This first example gets the X most interesting pictures (yes, Flickr really sorts like "sort"=>"interestingness-desc", by the users rating) for the tag you specify. You can use this to 'instantly put some related pictures on Wiki pages that dont have pictures yet.
What you type:
<flickr>Leary</flickr>
What you get:
<flickr>Leary</flickr>
What you type:
<flickr limit=5>Fnord</flickr>
What you get:
<flickr limit=5>Fnord</flickr>
The <flickr>-tag surrounds a keyword/Flickr Tag and optionally you can use limit to change the amount of thumbnails being shown, the maximum for tag-length is 255 chars and the maximum for limit is 10.
This is possible due to using a) the Flickr API, b) phpFlickr, c) the Debian PHP-Pear packages and d) a nice article in the latest iX (german) magazine, issue July 2006, p. 62 called "Bildergeflimmer". We could call this a Flickr->Mediawiki Mashup (->same iX issue, p. 55). mutante 20:56, 18 June 2006 (CEST)
Source
<?php # Flickr > Mediawiki MashUp Test (Web 2.3) # mutante from http://s23.org/wiki # inspired by "iX" magazine issue July 2006, p.62 article "Bildergeflimmer" # greets: cosmea,took,DrOwl,Kunda,Finn,hundfred,kdoz... and all of S23 $wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfFlickrExtension"; # extension hook callback function from mediawiki function wfFlickrExtension() { global $wgParser; $wgParser->setHook( "flickr", "renderFlickr" ); } function renderFlickr( $input, $argv ) { global $wgOutputEncoding; # How many pictures to show , upper limit 10, if not good,set default to 3 # Make really sure the input is integer if (is_numeric($argv["limit"]) && is_int(intval($argv["limit"])) && $argv["limit"]>0 && $argv["limit"] <11) { $limit=intval($argv["limit"]); } else { $limit=3; } # What is the tag $input = mysql_escape_string($input); # If not too long, set Input Text as Tag if (!is_string($input) || strlen($input)>255) { $input="error"; } else { $tag=$input; } require_once("phpFlickr.php"); $f = new phpFlickr("<your Flickr API key here>"); $f->enableCache("fs","./flickr_cache"); # get the X most interesting pictures for tag "flower" $photos_interesting = $f->photos_search(array("tags"=>"$tag", "sort"=>"interestingness-desc","per_page"=>$limit)); # output a table with the pictures $output="<table><tr><td colspan='$limit'>The $limit most interesting photos from Flickr for the tag <b>'$tag'</b></td></tr><t$ if (is_array ($photos_interesting['photo']) && count($photos_interesting['photo'])>0) { foreach ($photos_interesting['photo'] as $photo) { $output.="<td><img border='0' alt='$photo[title]' " . " src=". $f->buildPhotoURL($photo, "Square") . "></td>"; } $output.="</tr></table>"; } else { $output="<i>Flickr Extension: no images found for tag <b>$input</b></i>"; } return $output; } ?>
As always, this is just a quick example, and can be heavily extended. Feel free to do so.