I’d love to clean it up & put it on riaforge or something if you don’t have the time.

$session = curl_init($_GET['url']); // Open the Curl session
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // Don’t return HTTP headers
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return contents
$xml = curl_exec($session); // Make the call
header(”Content-Type: text/xml”); // Set the content type appropriately
echo $xml; // Spit out the xml
curl_close($session); // And close the session

If anyone has a quick answer then great. But I suppose I DO get paid to figure this stuff out on my own.

I am actually not using this for Flickr files but rather just for loading a tiny piece of data from another server.

Cheers,

Colin

I don’t think you tested the smoothing technique (http://blog.739saintlouis.com/2007/02/05/scaling-an-image-with-smoothing/) on a web server. I tried this method thinking to myself, why would it work just because you smoothed the image? It does not work, its kind of like grinding down bananas and smoking them in a pipe, you same advertised “high” effect. If you test anything locally, Flex will not give you any errors, but post the same application to the web, and you will find the sandbox violation staring you in the face. The only way to get by this error is to proxy the image. If you have a working app and code on a serve, I would love to be proved wrong.

Doing it this way is better, because having your server act as a proxy for Flickr eats up your bandwith and kills the whole point of putting your images on Flickr instead of your own server.

By the way, I am using the Flex Builder 3 beta. I think the example on that site was for flash, so I only used the script, and I also imported mx.core.BitmapAsset, but I’m not sure if that was necessary.

And thanks for posting so much cool stuff by the way.

Shaun

So the answer is to create a proxy that loads the flickr image so it appears to come from the same domain.

The PHP proxy page looked like this:

<?php

	if(isset($_GET['file']))
    {

        // just check if the file to read is from flickr
        if(preg_match("/^http:\/\/[0-9a-z_]+\.static\.flickr\.com\/[0-9]+\/[0-9a-z_]+\.jpg$/", $_GET['file']))
        {
			header( "content-type:image/jpeg" );

			$contents = file_get_contents($_GET['file']);

			header( "content-length:" .strlen($contents) );

			echo $contents;
        }
    }
?>

Here’s some discussion on this issue with the flickr farm servers:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594509936466/

This is more or less the same as what’s documented here:
http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/cube_effect/