Including the phpFlickr library in Kohana

Question

I'm beginning a website using the Kohana Framework, and I couldn't find how to include external libraries "the proper way".

I want to use the phpFlickr library to allow my website to interact with Flickr.

If there was a better way to include the files than:

require_once("path/to/phpFlickr.php");
// Fire up the main phpFlickr class
$f = new phpFlickr($key);

It's OK to do it that way I guess, but if I could say to Kohana, "the phpFlickr files are there, go get them on your own when you need it", it would be better.

Anyone can help me with that?

Thanks.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '10 at 23:45

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We use it in the same way as detailed here. So, like the following:

$path = Kohana::find_file('vendors', 'flickr/phpFlickr');
if($path) {
    ini_set('include_path',
    ini_get('include_path') . PATH_SEPARATOR . dirname(dirname($path)));
    require_once 'flickr/phpFlickr.php';
}

answered Aug 15 '10 at 23:45

Steerpike

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i'm not sure if changing `include_path` is really necessary – zerkms Aug 15 '10 at 23:50
Yeah I guessed it was like that, but the aticle used Zend so I wasn't totally sure. Thanks for confirmation ! – 3rgo Aug 16 '10 at 08:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '10 at 13:44

You can make a flickr folder in modules, create an init.php file in there and do something like this;

require_once Kohana::find_file('folder','phpFlickr');

Of course, you'll first have to enable "flickr" module in your bootstrap.

The better way would be to define a custom autoload method for flickr classes only so it's loaded only when it's actually needed.

Including the phpFlickr library in Kohana

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