Try as I might, I could not find a widget or script to pull Picasa albums and photos. So I wrote my own. It's not pretty, and pure php so no fancy java or anything. But it pulls the xml from Picasa and embeds everything inside our website. For now I'm happy.
<?php
/*** Variables *************************************************************************************/
$user = 'juspar'; //user account name
$thumbsize = '160c'; //possible values:
//32, 48, 64, 72, 144, 160 with a 'u' uncropped or 'c' cropped suffix
//200, 288, 320, 400, 512, 576, 640, 720, 800 only uncropped, no sufix necessary
$outputsize = '512'; //possible values:
//200, 288, 320, 400, 512, 576, 640, 720, 800
/*******************************************************************************************************/
if($photo)
{
// build photos feed URL
$urlFeed = "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/$user/album/$album?thumbsize=$outputsize";
// read feed into SimpleXML object
$sxml = simplexml_load_file($urlFeed);
foreach ($sxml->entry as $entry)
{
// get nodes in media: and gphoto: namespace
$media = $entry->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');
$gphoto = $entry->children('http://schemas.google.com/photos/2007');
//read thumbnail attributes
$attribs = $media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes();
//assign url attribute to variable
$thumbnail = $attribs['url'];
//assign photo id variable
$gphotoid = $gphoto->id;
//asign photo caption to a variable
$caption = $entry->summary;
//output match
if($gphotoid==$photo)
{
echo"<p class='photo'><a href='http://picasaweb.google.com/$user/$album#$photo' target='_blank'>"
."<img src='$thumbnail' alt='$caption' /><br />$caption</a></p>";
}
}
}
if ($album)
{
//build album feed URL
$urlFeed = "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/$user/album/$album?thumbsize=$thumbsize";
// read feed into SimpleXML object
$sxml = simplexml_load_file($urlFeed);
// get album names and number of photos in each
foreach ($sxml->entry as $entry)
{
// get nodes in media: and gphoto: namespace
$media = $entry->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');
$gphoto = $entry->children('http://schemas.google.com/photos/2007');
//read thumbnail attributes
$attribs = $media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes();
//assign url attribute to variable
$thumbnail = $attribs['url'];
//assign photo id variable
$photo = $gphoto->id;
echo "<p class='thumbnail'><a href='../index.php?type=guest&page=photos&user=$user&album=$album&photo=$photo'>"
."<img src='$thumbnail' alt='' border=0 /></a></p>";
}
}
else
{
//build albums feed URL
$urlFeed = "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/$user?kind=album&thumbsize=$thumbsize";
// read feed into SimpleXML object
$sxml = simplexml_load_file($urlFeed);
// get album names and number of photos in each
foreach ($sxml->entry as $entry)
{
// get nodes in media: and gphoto: namespace
$media = $entry->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');
$gphoto = $entry->children('http://schemas.google.com/photos/2007');
//assign variables from xml
$album = $entry->title;
$attribs = $media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes();
$thumbnail = $attribs['url'];
$numphotos = $gphoto->numphotos;
//tidy up album names for link
$albumlink = str_replace(" ","",$album);
$albumlink = strtolower($albumlink);
echo "<p class='thumbnail'><a href='../index.php?type=guest&page=photos&user=$user&album=$albumlink'>"
."<img src='$thumbnail' alt='$album' border=0 /><br />$album<br />$numphotos photo(s)</a></p>";
}
}
?>
