Hallo everybody, I'm new to google API and because I need just 1 very simple function, I don't intend to become a PRO in it. At the same time, I'm just lame PHP programmer.
I need to do one really simple PHP function: string albumcover ($userID, $albumName, $size) -* returns URL of the of album cover photo * real-life example: $userid: 112391172997417047399 $albumName: 65GiottosMT7350 $size: 100 *shall return*: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-As7VXqY168Y/T3TbXJnk5-E/AAAAAAAAAVU/dqI6VXtDrOk/s100-c/65GiottosMT7350.jpg I want to do it by the simpliest possible way, because I'll be fetching it for about 100albums for each pageview an a page that has *10thousands+ pagewiews per day*. (is it a good idea, shouldn't I cache the results into the database? (to relief both servers?) Can anybody help me write the function? I tried myself, but waded further deep into the google api, then I'd like. What i discovered: 1. I'll have to fetch some feed like: * https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/112391172997417047399?alt=rss&kind=album&hl=cs&imgmax=1600 * with *parameter fields* set to *media:thumbnail *only (how exactly do I type this condition into the field?) - this is important, so that thse result is *as small as possible*. * * 3. find the apropriate album by it's name (e.g. 65GiottosMT7350) or it's * albumID* (=don't know how to get it, I have only the name). 4. retrieve the url by some PHP XML function 5. change the size of the thumbnail in the result to required size, eg in: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-As7VXqY168Y/T3TbXJnk5-E/AAAAAAAAAVU/dqI6VXtDrOk/s160-c/65GiottosMT7350.jpg change the part "s160-c" to "s100-c" - this is the easiest part :-) baisically if you help me with the steps nr. 1 and 2 that shall be enough for me. or maybe and *idea for even much simpler function: * from $albumname (eg: 65GiottosMT7350) it returns the* strange string *in the middle of the desired url (eg. * /-As7VXqY168Y/T3TbXJnk5-E/AAAAAAAAAVU/dqI6VXtDrOk/ *)* * - any way how to easily retrieve this strange string? can anybody please help me? I know i'm near, but still cannot pull it there... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-picasa-data-api/-/vCquzdGIg1MJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
