Recipe 59: Photo Gallery

Note

Ingredients

Content module: http://drupal.org/project/cck

ImageAPI module http://drupal.org/project/imageapi

ImageAPI GD2 module, comes with ImageAPI module

ImageField module: http://drupal.org/project/imagefield

ImageCache module: http://drupal.org/project/imagecache

ImageCache UI module, comes with Imagecache module

Views Bonus Pack module: http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus

Bonus Grid View module, comes with Views Bonus Pack

There are many ways to present images on a website. In this approach we create a gallery using a collection of Views-enabled modules. We will enhance the gallery in Recipe 60 and 83.

1. Install and enable each of the modules listed in the Ingredients section.

Set up the Photo Content type

1. Create a new content type named Photo at admin/content/types/add.

   Name	Photo
   Type	photo
   Title Field Label	Title
   Body Field Label	(empty)
   Default Options	Published (Uncheck Promoted to front page.)
   Default Comment Setting	Disabled
   Attachments (Present...