How to pass page title and category as parameter to FlickrRSS

I want to pass the post title and category name to the ‘tags’
parameter so that Flickr images are dynamically displayed based on the
title and category.

I know programming but never worked with PHP. I tried the code below
but it didn’t worked.

<?php
$title=($the_post->post_title);
$tags = the_tags(”);
get_flickrRSS(array(‘num_items’ => 12, ‘type’ => ‘public’, ‘tags’ =>
$tags, $title));
?>

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,
-P