Building Flickr Applications with PHP [Paperback]

This is the first book that shows how to take advantage of both your photos and Flickr's enormous cache, to create new and compelling extensions to the Flickr platform. Youll discover how to take advantage of open source tools (like PHP, Apache, and MySQL) and the Flickr architecture to manage, retrieve, and format photos in imaginative ways. Youll also learn how to build upon Flickr's photo collaboration features to create interfaces for working with others on photo album projects. And you will learn how to take advantage of RSS to distribute photo updates with ease.

The first book showing how to take advantage of your photos and Flickr's enormous cache, to create new and compelling extensions to the Flickr platform, using open source tools (PHP and MySQL) with Flickr to manage, retrieve, and format photos in imaginative ways.

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 lă*