Slide show script to display pictures from skydrive or google drive

[kikkv]

As an amateur web developer and as a first timer here, I will be much grateful for any pointers / responses to my below query.


If I created an online cloud storage (leaning towards skydrive) to store/host my repository of full res pictures, and wanted to present slideshows of them on my website - what scripts are my options? Particularly with an ability to reference back each file - i.e. if I want to devise a button against the pics (to for eg. if the user clicks on a button saying "email picture as attachment"), I want to be able to capture against which picture the button was clicked …if this makes sense?

I read somewhere Skydrive has started to offer web links to each individual picture; am i right in thinking, as long as I don't use a flash script, I will be able to extrapolate at which point during the slideshow i.e. on which picture a button was clicked?

many thanks in advance

[ApacheTech]

SkyDrive comes with an embedded gallery and instructions on how to use it on your site.

Just right click on the photo folder you want to use and click embed. That will give you a link such as:

<iframe src="https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=XXXXXXXXXX&resid=XXXXXXXXXX%21228&authkey=XXXXXXXXXX" width="165" height="128" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

[kikkv]

many thanks mate

however that seems to give me an icon of the folder instead of the slideshow. i suppose i need to use a plugin? and it'd appear skydrive dont offer any plugins...

am i right or mistaken?

thanks again

[ApacheTech]

Microsoft are usually pretty good with their APIs. One was released in April, but I haven't used it yet. I only use SkyDrive for project management at the moment, I haven't used it for photo sharing other than sharing albums over email with family.

There is, however, a comprehensive guide to using the API at:

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_l...ny-device.aspx

I can't say it will definitely do what you want, but it's worth reading up on to find out.

[djr33]

I have no idea about the specifics of any of these services, but one very quick and basic point: some services (but maybe not these!) will intentionally block anything that tries to load images from it on another site. This is often called "hotlinking", and blocking it is designed to not allow you to use a storage service as a hosting service.
If this is blocked, you can find out more information in the FAQ or TOS of the service, and you might want to check there anyway to be sure your account won't be suspended.
Again, it all entirely depends on what the specific service is offering. Certainly some do allow external use of files, but not all.

A good hint about this is whether there is an API that offers the use of images. If so, then you know for sure that they allow that kind of usage. If not, then you'd need to investigate the TOS and so forth in more detail. If there is no API with this feature, it might be intentional.

[ApacheTech]

SkyDrive is a cloud storage facility given to anyone with a Windows Live account. As an example of it's use, I'll give you the link to my site:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resi...6567E846BC!229

You can share files for public use and/or specific people or sites. I don't beleive that there is a problem with hotlinking, mainly because you choose the publicity level of each file and folder. It has some features for creating galleries straight from the site then linking them from different websites, but for what kikkv is asking, the API mentioned above would probably be better.

There's a lot on info in the write up for the API about Windows 8, Android, Windows Phone and such, but I don't know how good it is for standard web development.