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Finally there was time to complete the Flickr photostream plugin for the blog. It’s a script that fetches the three most recently added images from a special flickr photoset.

It makes use of the ingenious script.aculo.us Javascript library, which is based upon the fantastic Prototype framework. For the XML parsing of the Flickr output I used this tutorial here. Quick and dirty but working. To create the shaded borders I heavily depended on this nice tutorial.

As I feel like sharing, the PHP file can be found here. It will not work for you out of the box as I am making heavy use of CSS in the output. For the script to work correctly the script.aculo.us library also has to be included into the webpage.