Small snippet (widget): Instagram Latest Posts

Hi guys,

Not sure if it's actual for anybody but here it is: snippet "Instagram Latest Posts".

This snippet allows us to get the latest posts from any Instagram user. Access tokens are not required.

N.B.! Please take into account, 20 latest posts can be returned only as it's limited by Instagram.

UPDATE: Please use Github https://github.com/igorsuhinin/modx-instagram-latest-posts to get the updated code. [ed. note: suhinin last edited this post 9 years, 9 months ago.]

Very nice. Do you mind if I do a blog post on this sometime down the road?

Hi BobRay,

No problem, please post it anywhere you want

Hope it will be useful for somebody else.

I'm going to make some small updates in the code. I will post it soon there and on Github as well.

Thanks. It's a great little bit of code.

You probably know this, but the file_get_contents() call may fail (e.g., if allow_url_fopen is off). You might consider adding a section that tries using cURL if the file_get_contents() fails.

Good point, BobRay. I will update the code to add cURL if this method is not available. Though cURL can be disabled as well anyway you are the second person already who advised me to do that so it's really important thing.

Hi BobRay,

Please check the updated code on Github https://github.com/igorsuhinin/modx-instagram-latest-posts

I've refactored the code and added some checkings like if file_get_contents() is enabled and so on. [ed. note: suhinin last edited this post 9 years, 9 months ago.]

Looks great!

One minor comment: If the snippet has default properties (or a user creates them), isset() will always return true on those properties. If they're empty, the empty value will be used instead of your default.

The usual solution is this:



The final argument makes it use the default value if the property is empty and the default will be used if the property is not set. Of course you need to handle things differently if 0 or an empty string is a valid value.

MODX sets $scriptProperties for you -- an associative array with all the properties and their values.

BobRay, thank you for your useful comments.

I've updated the code here https://github.com/igorsuhinin/modx-instagram-latest-posts/blob/master/snippet.php

Could you please take a look at this if all is good now?

It looks perfect.

Maybe you could release it as an extra?

I would love to do that but unfortunately I have no experience with it yet Though maybe it's time to learn how it works.