Building Flickr Applications with PHP

Description

Building Flickr Applications with PHP teaches you how to use todays most popular online photo management system. You'll learn to work with both your own photos and Flickrs enormous cache, and create new and compelling extensions to the Flickr platform. This book is a great pick because

* Its written by experienced developer Rob Kunkle and Phlickr developer Andrew Morton.
* You'll learn how to use the PHP API Phlickr to write and retrieve photos.
* Flicker is growing quickly in popularity in the online photo management world.

Using the popular PHP-driven Phlickr API in conjunction with MySQL, you'll discover how to take advantage of open source tools like PHP, Apache, and MySQL, as well as the Flickr architecture, to manage, retrieve, and format photos in imaginative ways. You'll also learn how to build upon Flickrs photo collaboration features to create interfaces for working with others on photo album projects. And you'll learn how to format Flickr tags, taking advantage of RSS to distribute photo updates.

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1 - Some Background Notes on Flickr, PHP and Phlickr
Chapter 2 - Flickr Features
Chapter 3 - Installing Apache, PHP and Phlickr
Chapter 4 - PHP Basics for Flickr
Chapter 5 - Worth a Thousand Words: Working with Flickr Photos
Chapter 6 - Getting Organised: Working with Flickr Photo Sets
Chapter 7 - Semantic Tags and What They Mean to You: Programming with Flickr Tags
Chapter 8 - RSS Feeds and Syndication
Chapter 9 - Bringing Photos Together: Adding Collaborative Features to Your Website with Flickr Groups

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