Atomic Lemur

9 Comments

1. Patrick
   Posted March 14, 2007 at 2:19 pm | Permalink

   Desperately searching for a piece of html to do this - something I can just cut and paste. I am trying to get a horizontal strip. Believe it or not I am right now uploading photos to both Picasa and Flicr which give that I am in the middle of Thailand is taking hours. Any help - greatly appreciated. Thanks.

2. jon
   Posted March 14, 2007 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

   well, there is no html that will give dynamic images, you’ll need PHP or javascript. You can get the PHP from the widget with very little work. The code below would display a horizontal dynamic set of images from an album. You can cut and paste this, but you’ll need to past the album feed as well.

   < ?php
   //options
   $feed = 'your album feed'; // enter your album feed here
   $link = true; // should images link to album
   $number = 4; //number of images to display

   $feed_content = file_get_contents($feed);
   if($link){
   preg_match("/href=[\"']([^\"']+)/si",$feed_content,$album_pre);
   preg_match("/[A-Za-z0-9\/:.]*\/+/",$album_pre[1],$album);
   $open_link = '<a href="'.$album[0].'" rel="nofollow">‘;
   $close_link = ‘</a>’;
   }
   preg_match_all(”/media:content url=[\"']([^\"']+)/si”,$feed_content,$photos,PREG_SET_ORDER);
   $picased_now = ‘<ul>’.”\n\r”;
   for($i=0;$i< $number;++$i){
   $photo_rss = str_replace("media:content url='",'',$photos[$i][0]);
   $photo_explode = explode('/',$photo_rss);
   $num_explode = count($photo_explode);
   $photo_explode[$num_explode] = $photo_explode[$num_explode-1];
   $photo_explode[$num_explode-1] = 's288';
   $photo_url = implode('/',$photo_explode);
   $picased .= "\t".'<li>‘.$open_link.’‘.$close_link.’</li>’.”\n\r”;
   }
   $picased .= ‘</ul>’.”\n\r”;
   echo $picased_now;
   ?>

   if you want pure html, then you’ll need to do the work I’m afraid to say.

3. Lena
   Posted May 6, 2007 at 9:59 am | Permalink

   Hi Jon, I’m quite happy that I have actually found a picasa widget that works for me.
   Do you think, you could add something that makes the widget choose random pictures from the feed? Just instead of always showing the first x pictures of the album? That would be great :) Thanks a lot!

4. jon
   Posted May 6, 2007 at 3:50 pm | Permalink

   Lena, I was actually just thinking about how I need to update picasaed. I don’t remember what the code looks like, but I can’t imagine it would be difficult to add a random feature. It may slow down a little if there are a ton of photos in the album though. I guess we’ll have to see. Check back soon.

5. Lon
   Posted June 14, 2007 at 9:39 am | Permalink

   I’d love to see a random feature as well… not just of the albums but random within the albums. just my 2 cents, thanks!

6. jon
   Posted June 14, 2007 at 9:49 am | Permalink

   Hey Lon, I’ve update the widget and added a random function— you’re actually looking at an older post.

   check out:
   Picasaed, the WordPress Picasa Widget has Been Updated

   The download link here does point to the newest version though.

7. A. Mercer
   Posted July 24, 2007 at 2:20 pm | Permalink

   I’m trying to figure out how to get the RSS feed from Picasa. Any hints would be appreciated.

8. A. Mercer
   Posted July 24, 2007 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

   Okay found the feed but the pics are not thumbnails, argh.

9. jon
   Posted August 11, 2007 at 11:15 am | Permalink

   A. Mercer,

   The latest update to Picased (v0.4) uses thumbnails instead of the larger image. The RSS feed is located at the bottom of every album.