zend gdata picasa php api stopped working

Question

I have used Zend Gdata for several years now.

However, today when my unchanged code executes the following command

$query = $this->gp->newAlbumQuery();

I receive the following error

exception 'Zend_Gdata_App_HttpException' with message 'Expected response code 200, got 403 Authorization required' in /shared/zend/ZendFramework-1.12.13/library/Zend/Gdata/App.php:717 Stack trace: #0 /shared/zend/ZendFramework-1.12.13/library/Zend/Gdata.php(221): Zend_Gdata_App->performHttpRequest('GET', 'https://picasaw...', Array, NULL, NULL, NULL) #1 /shared/zend/ZendFramework-1.12.13/library/Zend/Gdata/App.php(883): Zend_Gdata->performHttpRequest('GET', 'https://picasaw...', Array) 

I thought it would be because authentication had failed. I checked and my credentials are all fine and the following authenticates successfully without an exception

$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($this->config['username'], 
                                                $this->config['password'], 
                                                Zend_Gdata_Photos::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME);

I saw that Zend Gdata is still on version 1.12.13. However there is a recent release date of 20/05/2015. So i did an update using this new release. But the error is still the same.

So all i know is that i am authenticated, but the newAlbumQuery method is raising the above exception.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem with Zend Gdata? Has anyone found a fix or workaround?

Answer 1

Zend_Gdata uses ClientLogin which was deprecated as of April 20, 2012 and turned off on April 20 2015. This code will not longer work you need to switch to using Oauth2.