Yesterday I posted a link to a web application called Satellite that allows you to mirror the photos you have in your Flickr account to a personal and customised webpage.

If you, like me, host with Dreamhost, Satellite won’t work “out of the box” (at least not version 1.0). The application uses a PHP function called ‘file_get_contents’ that has (due for security reasons) been disabled by Dreamhost.

So if you’d like to get it working, place this function in the ‘preference.php’ file, which is located in the setUp folder, and then do a ’search and replace’ for ‘file_get_contents’ and replace it with ‘file_get_dreamcontents’.

Update: If you can’t find/know your Fickr id (e.g 35468139815@N01), visit idgettr.com.