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Picasa Module

Sun, 04/08/2007 - 7:21pm — Kevin

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Picasa
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Name: Picasa module
Author: Kevin Bridges
Drupal: 5.1
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DESCRIPTION:

The Picasa module is a simple module that utilizes Google's Picasa API to
display Web Albums and Photos as they appear in your account at
http://picasaweb.google.com/ ... it is advisable to have publicly viewable
pictures available before using this module.

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INSTALLATION:

1. Place picasa folder into your Drupal modules/ directory.

2. Enable the picasa module by navigating to
admin > modules

3. Bring up picasa settings page by navigating to
admin > settings > picasa
Enter your Picasa Username.

4. Optionally enable a "Picasa Random Image" block by navigating to
admin > build > block

5. View your albums at http://www.example.com/albums

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Tue, 04/10/2007 - 6:43pm — Loloy D (not verified)

Damn, you beat me to it

Thanks for the Picasaweb module for Drupal. I've been developing my own way of almost a similar thing since early March and I haven't had significant success. Although I'm a software developer by profession, I'm no PHP expert. I even got to manually parsing the Picasaweb feeds and displaying the thumbnails by direct embedding but I had troubles embedding the actual image itself. I figure this may be because Picasaweb wants me to download (or pull) the actual image first as a PHP image object before displaying it. Anyways, I'm also no good at making or developing a Drupal module. I do admit to having used and abused my Drupal sites for quite a few years now.

Anyways, I can see a lot of potential for your Picasa module but my 2 cents tells me it should be named Picasaweb module. Anyways, thanks a lot. You saved me tons of work and headache, although I've gone through quite a few tons of them already :-D.

And with Google's ever-expanding allowance for the size of our Picasaweb accounts, I may have to close my NearlyFreeSpeech account down. I really appreciate your effort and best of everything to you and your family.

Tue, 04/10/2007 - 7:19pm — Kevin

I've gotten some good

I've gotten some good feedback on the module and am looking forward to improving it. I choose the name Picasa because I would ultimately like it to support the full gamut of the Picasa API including being able to modify or upload photos directly from a Drupal site. A more advanced example of using the api involves bringing Google Earth into the picture to geotag the issues and generate the KML files to allow markers to have additional images stored on Picasaweb. I have it working but am going to test it with a few more trip reports ... you can check it out here http://www.kevinbridges.org/taxonomy/term/109

If you have any ideas of how to make this a better module it would be great to hear from you at http://drupal.org/project/issues/picasa?categories=feature

Best to you and yours.

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 6:30pm — DoverGeek (not verified)

Multiple images in block

Great Module, but can you provide an option to display more than one image in the block.

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 8:57pm — Kevin

I'm working on tying the

I'm working on tying the data from Picasa into Drupals node system ... this will give the ability to use the images in a multitude of ways not currently implemented by the Picasa module. Pulling multiple random images for a block or even multiple blocks will be easy to do once this is complete. I'll make sure to modify the documentation to explain how this is done.

Sun, 04/29/2007 - 11:33am — PieterDC (not verified)

Thanks

Thanks a lot already.
I'm looking forward to the new version of the drupal picasa(web) module. As you mention, with having the images as nodes, there'll be a lot of new possiblities. I'm willing to test development versions, help where-ever I can, but... well, we'll see.

Sat, 05/05/2007 - 11:12am — Anonymous (not verified)

How can i make

How can i make ex.com/albums/ viewable for anonymous user?

Tue, 05/15/2007 - 7:03pm — Anonymous (not verified)

Any update on tying this

Any update on tying this into the node system? Would be a nice feature for other modules such as the usernodes or extended profile modules for multiple users and permissions?

cheers

Sat, 05/19/2007 - 5:43am — Joe (not verified)

Image Search

Much of my web site is a photo gallery. About 60% of new traffic comes from Google and Yahoo image searchs. Any idea how useing your picasa module will effect the image searches or just the crawling by the search engines in general?

Sun, 07/20/2008 - 2:09am — David Apimerika (not verified)

Settings and Random Image Block

Hello Kevin

Just a small issue with your module. It's installed okay and activated, but I cannot go to Admin -> Settings -> Picasa. Neither can I add a Random Image Block (none to add). And nothing appears under /albums. I'm sure it's something silly I haven't done, but what I wonder? I installed the module under sites/all/modules, and I'm using Drupal 6.3.

Cheers

Sun, 01/11/2009 - 6:39am — Johnny The lawyer (not verified)

Hello Kevin

I'm working on tying the data from Picasa into Drupals node system ... this will give the ability to use the images in a multitude of ways not currently implemented by the Picasa module.
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