Recipe 25: Creating Website snapshots

Note

Ingredients

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

Link module: http://drupal.org/project/link

CCK Extras module: http://drupal.org/project/cck_extras

This recipe makes use of the Link and CCK Extras modules to take mini-snapshots of websites. CCK Extras includes this enjoyable description in the README.txt file:

CCK offers a bunch of swanky hooks for editing and displaying the contents of assorted fields. CCK Extras is a module that adds a few convenient (but sometimes esoteric) formatters.

Essentially, a formatter function in the CCK Extras module takes the URL from the link field as input and delivers a site screenshot as the output.

Installing modules

1. Install and enable the modules listed in the ingredients section.

Creating a Content Type

1. Create a new content type for links at admin/content/types/add.

   Name	Link
   Type	link
   Description	URL
   Default Options	Check Published Uncheck Promoted to the frontpage

2. Select Save content type. This brings...