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append two methods in flickr

I have to use two methods from Flickr to achieve my desired result; "the photos.search method" returns the photo id while the "geo.getLocation method" returns the long and lat value of each photo id. I am able to successfully iterate my search to get each photo id within my search area. My question is how do I iterate each photo id in the "geo.getLocation method" so as to get their latitude and longitude values.

Find below my php code that returns each photo id:

<?php

$url = ("http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=ff8c4c178209865b1ac5ee3f2d492de0&lat=51.5424&lon=-0.1734&radius=2&page=1&text=flats");

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

foreach ($xml->photos->photo as $entry) {  
echo $entry->attributes()->id;
echo $entry->attributes()->owner;
echo $entry->attributes()->title; 
}

?>

The REST request format for the geo.getLocation method is:

http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.geo.getLocation&api_key=xxxx&photo_id=[value]

Yemi

Solution

  • Why not get each location as you iterate over the photo ids, as in

    <?php

$url = ("http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=ff8c4c178209865b1ac5ee3f2d492de0&lat=51.5424&lon=-0.1734&radius=2&page=1&text=flats");

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

foreach ($xml->photos->photo as $entry) {  
   echo $entry->attributes()->id;
   echo $entry->attributes()->owner;
   echo $entry->attributes()->title;
   $xmlloc = simplexml_load_file("http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.geo.getLocation&api_key=xxxx&photo_id=" . $entry->attributes()->id);
// process XML file
}

?>