Commercial description
The Flickr smartlet allows you to display Flickr images in your website. Most popular, most recent, tagged or user images can all be retrieved .
Functional description
The Flickr smartlet has the following features:
- Configuring settings both in-place (cookies) and in the CMS
- Four different methods for image retrieval
- Most interesting images (according to Flickr users)
- Meest recent images
- Images with iven tag(s)
- A specific users images
- Configuration of the number of thumbnails to show at a time
- Configuration of the Smartlet title
- Availability in English, Dutch and Turkish
Technical description
The Flickr smartlet uses the Flickr API to retrieve images from Flickr. The XML data is then parsed using an XSLT and then shown as thumbnails. These thumbnails can then be clicked to view a larger image using a jQuery lightbox plugin. The images for every page are retrieved using Ajax. The smartlet also works in a non-scripting environment because of the use of progressive enhancement.
Manual
The Examples folder contains two examples of using the smartlet. The only required parameter is the ApiKey-parameter, wich can be retrieved from the Flickr site (see below). The other parameters are:
- Title
The Smartlet title - Method
interestingness / most_recent / tags / user - Value
Tags or username (depending on method) - ItemCount
Number of thumbnails per page - SettingsEnabled
true/false; Visibility of user settings
Using the localization script in de Setup folder, the localizations can be added to the database.
Other remarks
To use the Flickr API, an API Key is required. If you have your own, use it. Otherwise, request one from Flickr.
