Using Drupal

Chapter 7. Photo Gallery

If a picture says a thousand words, it’s important that a site have a strong foundation for managing images. The flexibility of Drupal allows for the management of images in a variety of ways and can scale from a one-person portfolio to millions of users uploading photos on a fansite.

This chapter introduces the following modules:

ImageField (http://drupal.org/project/imagefield)

A CCK field that allows image uploads

ImageCache (http://drupal.org/project/imagecache)

Automatically resizes images to predefined dimensions and caches them for later retrieval

Custom Pagers (http://drupal.org/project/custom_pagers)

Creates custom previous/next pagers

If you would like to participate in the hands-on exercises in this chapter, install Drupal using the Photo Gallery installation profile from the book’s sample code. This will create the example website on your web server. The completed website will look as pictured in Figure 7-1 and at http://gallery.usingdrupal.com. For more information on using the book’s sample code, see the Preface.

Note

In order to complete this chapter, you must have the Clean URLs feature working, and your version of PHP must have the GD Library installed. See the Troubleshooting ImageCache“ section, later in this chapter, for more information.

Case Study

Figure 7-1. The Robinsons’ photo gallery website

The Robinsons have a large extended family with whom ...