Can I use pixelpost with the pics uploaded at Flickr?

[Hezron]

as the title.
Could i use pixelpost with the pics uploaded at Flickr or some place not the localhost?
Thanks a lot!

[codepoit]

Since pixelpost is designed to be used as a standalone application, you would have to do some MAJOR tweaking to get that to work. Personally, I don't see why you'd want to do that...if you want to use Flickr, just use flickr.

[janickg]

Since pixelpost is designed to be used as a standalone application, you would have to do some MAJOR tweaking to get that to work. Personally, I don't see why you'd want to do that...if you want to use Flickr, just use flickr.

tsk tsk tsk, there there now - starting to sound like someone from a big bluechip corporation...
:rolleyes:

[codepoit]

I'm sorry, but I don't think I'm saying anything out of line, or whatever it is you are suggesting I'm being. The OP wants to use Pixelpost, a standalone photo blog application, as an interface to his Flickr account. There are much better options out there than Pixelpost for what he wants to do.

[Hezron]

I don't see why you'd want to do that...if you want to use Flickr, just use flickr.
do not have enough space to store the pics

[blinking8s]

Flickr is an amazing service, for photo sharing it has changed the world we live in. But here, we're about personal photoblogs and pixelpost is really developed to be a single person photoblog. There have been several inquiries about using flickr with pixelpost in the past, but in the end we really just dont have the demand to really look down this path

[Hezron]

Flickr is an amazing service, for photo sharing it has changed the world we live in. But here, we're about personal photoblogs and pixelpost is really developed to be a single person photoblog. There have been several inquiries about using flickr with pixelpost in the past, but in the end we really just dont have the demand to really look down this path

Flickr is not the point. I just want to ask can i put the pixelpost in one host and put the pictures in the other host?
Have a addon like this?

[Dkozikowski]

Currently, NO.

Your images need to be on the same host as your Pixelpost instllation.

[janickg]

I'm quite sure you can use php to pull the latest photo out of your flickr stream or some sort of interface with the flickr API, its just that no one has wrote it yet. But to forbid or discourage anyone from even thinking about blending the two in sync, now that's blue-chip big daddy mentality.

[GeoS]

In version 1.6 from some reasons there will be one step forward to such Pixelpost usage. It would need an addon or big hack.

[austriaka]

I guess what you want to do is not so difficult at all, if you are familiar with PHP:
Create a new field in pp_pixelpost table in pp database which stores the outside image path

Make an addon for image_template.html:
create a <PIXELPOST TAG> for the complete img path
ask if there is a value for the outside path in database
if there is, let the new PP Tag be the path to your outside hosted image
if not, let it be "images/<IMAGE_NAME>"

Make an addon for admin area:
A textfield for the outside path which goes into "pp_pixelpost.outsidepath"
let the thumb create by pixelpost
delete the uploaded image after thumb created if outside path is sent

You will get a lot of filesize error messages in images list, but you can either supress them or create a new workspace for the images list of image_edit.php where this is corrected.

And keep that in mind:
Remember! Flickr Terms of Service specify that if you post a Flickr photo on an external website, the photo must link back to its photo page.

I did something similar with a "private addon" for hiding images when not logged in. It was a bit tricky but I guess it is manageable.

HTH
KArin

[Chris McDermott]

codepoit - you stated

"There are much better options out there than Pixelpost for what he wants to do"

I don't see what the big deal is with people wanting to incorporate flickr with pixelpost. To be able to store all my photos in flickr and then pick out the ones i want to show in Pixelpost would be huge advantage. Pixelpost looks fantastic and if I could tie it in with Flickr - even better. I don't see flickr as a threat to pixelpost but rather flickr is a tool to complement pixelpost.

If it is not possible to pull in photos from flickr into pixelpost easily can you suggest a few alternatives that people can look at.

thanks

[dakwegmo]

I don't think it's a big deal, or even that PixelPost is threatened by Flickr, they're two completely different applications, with different goals. The biggest reason that you can't do what OP wants, is that nobody has written a hack or addon to do it. Karin described in pretty general terms how to do it, but it's been more than a year and nobody has taken up the task. I suspect that most of the PixelPost developers and addon writers have other priorities, so this isn't really a task they'd be willing to spend a lot of time on.

If someone wants this feature badly enough they have several options including writing it themselves or finding someone to write it for them.

Barring that, I'd look at traditional blogging software, pretty much every one of them lets you insert images into your posts.

[jaywilliams]

Btw, I stumbled across this Flickr/Photoblog app today. It sounds very interesting for people that already use Flickr and don't want to host the photos themselves.
http://code.google.com/p/flogr/

If you fit in that category, definitely check that out. It seems slower to me than Pixelpost however, as each page requires that the serve make multiple API calls to Flickr's server, rater than a local mySQL box.

Hopefully that app will help some people out there looking for ultra-tight Flickr integration.