Flickr set component for CakePHP

FlickrComponent.php

<?php
/**
 * Flickr Component
 *
 * This file will share logic to your controller
 *
 * PHP 5
 *
 * CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
 * Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
 *
 * Licensed under The MIT License
 * For full copyright and license information, please see the LICENSE.txt
 * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
 *
 * @copyright     Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
 * @link          http://cakephp.org CakePHP(tm) Project
 * @package       app.Controller
 * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 0.2.9
 * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
 */
App::uses('Component', 'Controller');

class FlickrComponent extends Component {

  public function set() {
    /**
  	*
  	* Grab URL to your photo set
  	* Reference: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/flickr.photosets.getPhotos
  	*/
  	$url = 'add your url here';

  	$photos = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));

  	return $photos;
  }
}

I left this in object notation instead of a PHP array in order to easily access the nested elements. If you'd like to convert the outcome to a PHP array you could use this:

$photos = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), TRUE);

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