So today I needed to display photos from our Flickr Group without using php or asp.net. I have a WordPress widget that does this job nicely, but no PHP was allowed.

Thank goodness for jQuery! jQuery has a handy little function which allows us to load JSON data using an HTTP GET request, and then process the contents as an array. And with some natty CSS to square things up as a grid, I have nine random (ish) photos from our Flickr group displaying in a nice 3×3 grid.

See it in action.

The full commented code is at the bottom of this post, but let’s go through it bit by bit. Continue reading →