I See the Truth Now!!! Imgur API

Well well.. as predicted.. I needed to move APIs. Essentially Google Photos API baseurl keeps changing which means that you do not have a static public url for your images. Well, goodbye Google and hello Imgur.

To access the Imgur API you will need to sign up for a basic account along with a developer API. Like the Google API, you will use OAuth2 to access your content. Once signed up, you should have a client id and client secret for your callback url. A really nice PHP based api wrapper exists php-imgur-api-client that follows the available API endpoints. Here I provide an example function to work with the API wrapper:

private function uploadImage($filename, $uploadedFile, $session)
{
	$client = new Imgur\Client();
	$client->setAccessToken($session->refresh_token);
	$listAlbumsResponse = $client->api('account')->albums();

	foreach ($listAlbumsResponse as $key => $jsons) {
		foreach ($jsons as $key => $value) {
			if ($key === 'id') {
				$albumId = $value;
			}

			if ($key === 'title' and $value === 'jessequinninfo') {
				$albumExists = true;
				break;
			}
		}
	}

	if (!$albumExists) {
		$createAlbumResponse = $client->api('album')->create([
			'title' => 'jessequinninfo',
			'description' => 'album for jessequinn.info',
			'privacy' => 'public',
		]);

		foreach ($createAlbumResponse as $key => $value) {
			if ($key === 'id') {
				$albumId = $value;
			}
		}
	}

	$uploadPhotoResponse = $client->api('image')->upload([
		'image' => base64_encode(file_get_contents($uploadedFile->file)),
		'type' => 'base64',
		'album' => $albumId,
		'title' => 'blog image',
		'description' => 'new post photo for blog',
	]);

	foreach ($uploadPhotoResponse as $key => $value) {
		if ($key === 'link') {
			$filename = $value;
		}

		if ($key === 'deletehash') {
			$deletehash = $value;
		}
	}

	return $filename .= ', ' . $deletehash;
}

I grab my token from my session variable, grab a list of albums, keep the id, and find the title that matches my album name. I do not want to create duplicates, so i have the create album within an if statement. Next I upload an image with the $albumId and finally i check and keep the link and deletehash.

To connect to Imgur I simply do the following:

public function connectWithImgur(Request $request, Response $response, $args)
{
	$session = new RKA\Session();

	if ($session->user_role == 'Admin') {
		$client = new Imgur\Client();
		$client->setOption('client_id', getenv('SOMEENVVARIABLE'));
		$client->setOption('client_secret', getenv('SOMEENVVARIABLE'));

		if (isset($session->refresh_token)) {
			$client->setAccessToken($session->refresh_token);

			if ($client->checkAccessTokenExpired()) {
				$client->refreshToken();
			}

			return $response->withRedirect($this->router->pathFor('admin-list-posts'));
		} elseif ($request->getQueryParam('code', $default = null) != null) {
			$client->requestAccessToken($request->getQueryParam('code'));
			$session->refresh_token = $client->getAccessToken();
		} else {
			return $response->withHeader('Location', $client->getAuthenticationUrl());
		}
	}

	return $response->withRedirect($this->router->pathFor('blog-list-posts'));
}

In retrospect, Imgur is far superior than Google Photos as you can delete images!!!

$client = new Imgur\Client();
$client->setAccessToken($session->refresh_token);
$pieces = explode(',', $post_delete['post_img']);
$client->api('image')->deleteImage(ltrim($pieces[1]));

I hope this helps someone and please stay away from Google Photos API.