Hello Mike Thanks for your help, that makes sense to me.
Ian On Friday, 30 November 2012 17:06:15 UTC, Mike Erickson wrote: > > Hello Ian, > > The album title that works is the right one, and the reason it works is > that the album has a display title and a URL title. The URL title has no > spaces, and is unique per user account. So you might have two albums called > "My Test Album" but the URL title for these albums will be MyTestAlbum and > MyTestAlbum01, or something along those lines. > > The point is that you won't be able to guess how to construct the request > based on the display title. Take, for example, a Unicode album display > title with Korean characters. There will be a valid URL album title for > that album, but I can't tell you what it will be. > > Your best bet will be to request a list of all the albums for that user, > then let them pick from a list you display. That way you'll know about the > album and can use the right album title or, even better, the album ID. > > I hope that helps. > > Thanks, > -Mike > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Ian Kennerley > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am having trouble accessing Picasa web albums by album name. I have >> album name 'My Test Album'. If I use that name (including the spaces) the >> Album name is not found. I am using the zend-gdata library. >> >> Here is my code that works: >> >> // Construct the query >> $query = $this->photos->newAlbumQuery(); >> $query->setUser( "default" ); >> $query->setAlbumName( "MyTestAlbum" ); //This works fine >> >> >> Here is the code that doesn't work: >> >> >> // Construct the query >> $query = $this->photos->newAlbumQuery(); >> $query->setUser( "default" ); >> $query->setAlbumName( "My Test Album" ); // This album not found >> >> >> I need users to be able to enter the name of their album to >> >> >> retreive their photos. How do I know what characters to remove? >> >> Many Thanks >> Ian >> >> >> -- >> 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/-/vZVdJDLLey4J. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en. >> > > -- 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/-/xJrAX8YbpdYJ. 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.
