So I've been trying to get an idea of how PHP, Flickr, API coding might work, As I mentioned Flickr allows people access to their codes, photos etc through API kits. There are also a lot of third party applications that give you coding options. So over the last week I've started to test these out.
After a lot of cursing and swearing I managed to get this simple program to work
Form script
It's a very basic script but the point is it allows users to submit a query and get a response. The theory is from there why not ask a question and the response be a series of images.
So that's the next step. After a lot more cursing and swearing I got a basic script up and running that shows a users last 36 photos. This is a example of how that could work. Again it is very simple script, but it took a lot of work to get it to work.
Users Last Photos
The problem with this script at the moment is it can only find my last 36 photos. Other peoples usernames don't work yet. So I will need to tweak the code to fix that.
The theory behind all this is that for the website thing I'm developing the PHP coding will gather images in specified way. For example a users last 36 images, date they were added or a tagged name for an image. Then another program such as Processing or Flash will allow you to start moving and re-adjusting the webpages.
What will be interesting will be developing ways for people to search for images. It would be good to avoid the usual ways that people find images. The ColrPickr is an intersting approach to this problem. Actauly a simple starting point may be to use the traditional search mthods and start adding visual elmnts through a programme such as Processing.
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