Even better: stop storing photo ids as numbers entirely. From Flickr's API docs: "These IDs should always be treated as opaque strings, rather than integers of

Even better: stop storing photo ids as numbers entirely. From Flickr's API docs: "These IDs should always be treated as opaque strings, rather than integers of any specific type." http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.overview.html http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.overview.html