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Build a thumbnail page using delicious and flickr

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Introduction

An example on how to use the power of flickr and del.icio.us (and some funky javascript) to build an easily configurable thumbnail page on your website.

The idea is to tag a picture of flickr on del.icio.us and show it magicallyon your web page.

What you'll need

You will need an account on http://flickr.com and one on http://del.icio.us.com (both free!)

Steps

Just visualize some image on flickr, go to the size you want to see in your page and tag it on del.icio.us with a "special tag": I use in the sample: WFTM+pictures .

Use this code to retrieve the items: 


<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/json/maborg/WFTM+pictures?count=20"></script>

then add this element to your page: 

		
<div class="container">
	<span id="pictures-display"></span>
</div>
</code>

And then this code (to be called at the onload): 

<script type="text/javascript">
function myload(){
	
	var ct = document.getElementById('pictures-display');
	for (var index in Delicious.posts) {
			var k=Delicious.posts[index];
			var span = document.createElement('span');
			var a = document.createElement('a');
			var img = document.createElement('img');
			img.setAttribute('src', k.u);
			img.setAttribute('title', k.d);
			img.setAttribute('alt', k.d);
			
			a.setAttribute('href', bigPictureUrl(k.u) );
			a.appendChild(img);
			
			span.appendChild(a);
			span.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
			ct.appendChild(span);
	}
}

function bigPictureUrl(url){
	
	var parts = url.split("/",5);
	var splits = parts[4].split("_");
	return  "http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=" + splits[0] + "&size=l";

}
</script>

That's all!

suggestion welcome: marco.borgna@weshowthemoney.com

You can see an example here: http://weshowthemoney.com/pictures.html

USE THE CLOUD!

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