June 26th, 2017, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by retroanalyst
That's all nice, but the Pixhost API guarantees only that the gallery hash is a string, not what length it has. Thus, storing it in a fixed-length datatype record is asking for trouble.
While I was looking closer at the API, I wondered why there are two different hashes in the first place and why they don't use a single long hash. Must be because they want to allow sharing galleries via Twitter, so the URL had better be short.
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Based on what I can tell they only allow you to add images to a gallery for 24 hours, or until the gallery has been 'finalized'. Not sure why they need 2 hash strings for it, considering the upload hash is much larger.
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