I’ve added a lots of old pictures to my account in no particular order and this resulted in the photostream being completely unorganized. I did a search on the forums and several people mentioned that the photostream is organized in the order uploaded. Well modifying the images uploaded dates by hand, is well straightly put, a pain in the ass. After a few futile searches of easy way to batch edit uploaded dates, I decided to create my own solution.
Using flickr’s API it’s really simple to achieve what I’m trying to do. I simply set the taken date as the uploaded date and all is good. Sure, it might appear to the astute viewer that you simultaneously took and added the picture to flickr, but who really cares?
My class of choice to work the API is phpflickr, a class written Dan Coulter. Obviously replace the keys with your values. I’m not going to explain how to use phpFlickr, but if you need help setting it up, read the official documentation.
Code is avaliable here.