Updated: Flickr Photo Album (0.93)

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01 Nov

Here’s the update everyone’s been waiting for: Flickr Photo Album is now at version 0.93. Included in this update are fixes to some long outstanding issues, primarily with WordPress 2.3 compatibility and caching.

In particular for the cache bugs, I’ve updated it so that it will now use a database caching table to store requests made to Flickr (instead of the filesystem), which should help solve a bunch of the file permission errors people were having with various web hosts. This table will also allow for more intelligent caching procedures by storing a little bit more meta-data, which should help provide better insights into how to properly manage the cache. As usual, let me know if you find any bugs or problems with it… preferably through the Google Project.

Go can download the updated plugin here >

PS, the slideshow code has also been updated to use Flickr’s new flash widget.

Update Nov 1: The new caching code I wrote is a little faulty… those late nite coding sessions are starting to catch up with me ;p  Anyways, until the next update… please manually download this file and place it into the silaspartners/flickr/ directory. The plugin will still work, but it might be alittle slow, since it’s not using the cache correctly.

Posted on Thursday, Nov 1st 2007 at 12:42 am
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  1. # Anton Nov 01, 2007

    Just what the doctor ordered! Thanks a ton for sharing your work Joe.

  2. # ss Nov 01, 2007

    Actually, I prefer the file system type of cache but data base.
    fs type is a little faster than db type, I think.

  3. # Joe Tan Nov 01, 2007

    ss: you can switch back to the file system based cache by adding the following to your wp-config.php:


    define("SILAS_FLICKR_CACHEMODE", "fs");

  4. # ss Nov 01, 2007

    ya, thank you.
    But i just modified lib.flickr.php file

    define(”SILAS_FLICKR_CACHEMODE”, “db”); to define(”SILAS_FLICKR_CACHEMODE”, “fs”);

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