Feb
09

Images Galleries From Flickr

Konductor integration with Flickr

One of the most requested features we get is galleries. So I’m sure many of you will be happy to hear that we have posted our first tutorial about implementing galleries to our tutorials section of the extension help.

From the beginning we have adopted the attitude that doing one thing to a very high standard is much better than doing everything poorly. We do content management very well—and we decided to leave galleries to the experts, Flickr.

You’ll get all the meat of the technical stuff in the post, but a couple of years ago, a full featured gallery would only have been possible using your favorite server side scripting language with a mish-mash of SQL. And it would have required much more code. Now, we can get access to all of Flickr’s functionality using a minimal amount of jQuery and JSON.

The above may or may not mean much to you, but it does illustrate nicely how easy integrating sophisticated services into your own designs has become. And that means we can help you integrate with many more top class web services; next in line is MailChimp for newsletters.

Anyway, let us know what you think about the tutorial, and also what else you would like to see Konductor integrate with. :)


Responses

Good work Andrew – Another alternative to finding your user name is this tool: http://www.idgettr.com/ – it helps since for some reason I could not find my user id in the api section.


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