hmm it does sound like it would work. My ideas was to find the href and search for authkey= then split it and make that an $authkey variable to put at the end of my feedURL. I see many have a simple solution using Zend but I don't want to use that bulky framework just for one simple task. I'll give this a shot and reply with my results.
Thanks again On Monday, August 13, 2012 2:13:46 PM UTC-4, Mike Erickson wrote: > > It seems like you are just trying to find the authkey param the photo > Feed? Your best bet is to find the feed element then use > parse_url<http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php> to > pull off the query string. Then you can split the queries and grab the > authkey. > > Sounds like a reasonable solution? > -Mike > > -m.e. > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:01 AM, James Callahan < > jamestcallah...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> working with the picasa API with php and simple xml. >> >> I currently have my feed like so... >> >> $feedURL = " >> http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/$userid/?kind=photo";; >> $sxml = simplexml_load_file($feedURL); >> >> >> is there a way I can display that info on the page with a print_r? I want >> to see every single attribute, tag, etc. that there is with that link so I >> can try and figure out how to get the authkey. I see it added at the end of >> the feedURL in [href] when I do an echo on the $sxml >> >> something like this... >> >> [link] => Array >> ( >> [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object >> ( >> [@attributes] => Array >> ( >> [rel] => >> http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed >> [type] => application/atom+xml >> [href] => >> http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/108822373128819829392/albumid/5774774167439695457/photoid/5774774171247938738?authkey=Hgi37aezOS0 >> ) >> >> ) >> >> >> >> I need to figure out how to get that authkey into a variable so I can add >> it to the feedURL. >> >> on the site I have people will be logging in with their credentials and >> right now they can but they can't see their private albums in picasa. >> >> -- >> 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/-/CBbAgjZwY5kJ. >> To post to this group, send email to >> google-pica...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <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/-/RD2SZQz5UNwJ. To post to this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
