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monastery by Markus Krueger.

World Wide Panorama integration

After my 'fun' with MySQL, I indulged in something less strictly necessary for the site, but a lot more enticing to do: Add some integration with the World Wide Panorama project.

On the front page, you might have noticed a thumbnail and link to the World Wide Panorama of the day. The contents of the block are aggregated once a day from the pano of the day RSS feed. This itself is cool enough, but there's more, if you look very carefully...

I have added a field to the profile settings for registered users of the IVRPA site to link to their World Wide Panorama people page. See for example my profile, which includes a link to my World Wide Panorama profile under 'Personal Information'. Note that if you want to add a similar link in your own profile page, you may have to edit your profile (go to 'My profile' in the 'logged in as...' menu in the top left corner, and find the 'personal information tab').

Now if the photographer of the World Wide Panorama of the day is a registered user of the IVRPA site, and if that user has correctly entered the wwpano id field of his profile, the credit line now links to his/her IVRPA account (for today's pano of the day, I have added the required field to Nick Crossland's profile). How neat is that?

Ok, I'll get to some more necessary work now...