I'd really like to have all my photos in one place. I also have a flickr pro account. What would be superb is if I could have a gallery that pulls my albums from flickr and displays them. Is this hard to do? Is it plausible with any photo management web-app out there? The reason I ask is because I share all of my photos via flickr, but I want to create a personal website that integrates these photos.

Sincerely,
Andrew Maier

It sounds like we are starting to see a similar theme here. I'm not interested in hosting the files at Flickr, but at a service such as S3 or Bingodisk. Can we expand this feature request to include other file or hosting services?

http://www.lumis.com/jibber/jabber/full/lumis_php_gallery_flickr/

Sounds like we want a generalized filesystem abstraction layer for Zenphoto, able to pull the originals from any source (Local server, remote server, S3, Bingodisk, box.net, flickr, etc. etc.) for any album or any group of photos. That would be awesomely cool, and very "Web Two."

Seriously a great feature for Zenphoto 2, I will add it to the spec. Thanks.

(FYI it's just in the wishful planning stages right now, nothing concrete)

I hope this feature does come to fruition. Keep us abreast of any progress. You guys will win that Web 2.0 award yet.

I've been thinking about this feature request again recently.

"able to pull the originals from any source (Local server, remote server, S3, Bingodisk, box.net, flickr, etc. etc.)"

Would the gallery have to pull the originals, or simply link to them? Would an entire filesystem be necessary?

I have recently hacked a simple script to retrieve and display pictures from my photostream using the Flickr API. That was before I discovered Zenphoto. I switched to my own hosted portfolio because I wanted more control on the output and album organisation and better performance (which the flickr script couldn't offer).

That would be great if you could get this working with ZenPhoto, for those people who like to keep a flickr account and still have the customizable ZenPhoto for a homepage.

I like the idea of a filesystem abstraction layer as a long-term goal for Zenphoto. FYI my former (pre-Zenphoto) gallery used the phpFlickr class as a comfortable interface to handle data retrieved via the Flickr API. I'm fairly familiar with the Flickr API if help is needed on this.

You may want to check out the script I have just made available, more details here: http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=5904