Comments on: Picasa Web Wordpress Widget

By: hardik tank

hardik tank — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:17:51 +0000

nice plugin…

By: Alamgir

Alamgir — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:52:17 +0000

What’s the usage? I have everything installed but can’t get an album to come up in a post.

Do I need to put a special tag around the URL? Is it the URL by itself? Is it the URL as an A-HREF??

By: Jeromy

Jeromy — Sat, 19 May 2007 07:00:45 +0000

after I install and activate the widget I do not see any widget configuration panel. I have verified all my paths and the look good. Any ideas?

By: smily

smily — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:37:11 +0000

love it, thanks for taking the time for writing this! For anybody having issues make sure you check the paths to the cache ‘cacheurl’ and ‘cachedir’ before you activate it, its around line 38 of picasaweb.php

By: Picasa Web Albums & WordPress at Spy98

Picasa Web Albums & WordPress at Spy98 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:07:46 +0000

[...] krpytischen Fehler verwehrt. Einige Suchen mit der “Magic Google” lie�en mich dann ein PWM-Derivat das von Otto @ Ottodestruct.com stammt finden. So gleich installiert aber trotzdem ein Problem: [function.fopen]: failed to open [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:22:53 +0000

Nevermind my previous post. I have debugged the script, and found out that the
path to the plugin-directory was hardcoded.
It was something like “plugins/widgets/picasawebcache”…
Changing everything to “plugins/picasaweb/picasawebcache” (i.e. my structure)
made everything work.

Thanks for the excellent plugin…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:52:56 +0000

Hey Otto,

I cannot seem to get your plugin to work correctly. It constantly spits out

—-
fopen(/www/htdocs/spy/wp-content/plugins/widgets/picasawebcache/CIMG0588.JPG) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/htdocs/spy/wp-content/plugins/picasaweb/picasaweb.php on line 81
Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /www/htdocs/spy/wp-content/plugins/picasaweb/picasaweb.php on line 84
—-

After these messages I get a lot of gibberish.

I’m using the latest WordPress and K2 0.95RC on a PHP4.4.4 server.
The Feed-URL I’m using is: http://picasaweb.google.de/dat.....&hl=de

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks man!

–Thomas

By: HMX

HMX — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:47:41 +0000

I have updated the widget with code from Picasa Wed Matrix and some of my own and it now works as expected on my site so I thought I would share my work with others. You can find it here

By: Mick West

Mick West — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:04:46 +0000

That < should have been a < - dratted double escaping

By: Mick West

Mick West — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:03:46 +0000

I seem to have the same problem as wvpv, the output seems to have gone through the htmlspecialchars function, and comes out all < etc, so you see the code rather than the output

I changed the line
$photos[$count]['description'] = htmlspecialchars($row['description']);

to
$photos[$count]['description'] = $row['description'];

and it displayed images, but messed up. I wonder if you uploaded a debug version by mistake?

By: g-man

g-man — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:11:15 +0000

I have been beating my head against a rock. I am switching over to WP and found your widget. It wont cache the images (and I have set the folder to 777. As you can see (if you go to my site) that the rss parts work, but the img src tag lists the path but no file name.

I know a little JAVA and PERL (enough to be dangerous) and was trying to get a grip on the code. I dont have CURL with my PHP. I cant tell if the problem is in the fopen, or in the parsing of the rss data.

If you could take a look I’d certainly appreciate it.

I can use the picasa’s “Blog this” URL to get an image, `course it is not being saved locally. I just wanted to see if I could actually use that.

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:54:22 +0000

Yes, it works fine. What do you mean by “a bunch of HTML entities”? That’s what it’s supposed to do. HTML is what web pages are made of.

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:54:22 +0000

Yes, it works fine. What do you mean by “a bunch of HTML entities”? That’s what it’s supposed to do. HTML is what web pages are made of.

By: wvpv

wvpv — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:17:26 +0000

This is supposed to be a widget, though I can seem to get it to work. Just outputs a bunch of HTML entities. Does it still work?

By: wvpv

wvpv — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:17:26 +0000

This is supposed to be a widget, though I can seem to get it to work. Just outputs a bunch of HTML entities. Does it still work?

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:51:21 +0000

Is there a wordpress widget that would allow me to display my album in the sidebar/with the sidebar widgets/plug ins?
Thanks!