Create a Drupal Photo Gallery Using Flickr, CCK & Views
Save yourself the confusion and head over there!
There’s an almost infinite number of ways to create a photo gallery with Drupal. I’ve tried many different approaches but never really been all that happy with the results. I’ve finally found a solution worth sharing/repeating. Here’s what we’ll be creating using Views, CCK and the Flickr module.
Disable Comments by Default
A quick post here. Often times I find myself building sites that have a blog and thus use the Comment module that ships with Drupal. That all works great. The problem is, later when I’m building out other content types, say Photo Galleries, I more often than not wish to disable comments on those node types. No problem, right? Just disable comments and get on with it. Well no – it’s not all right with me. I think comments should be disabled by default or at the very least, the Comments fieldset should be expanded by default so that you’re reminded to turn them off. Unfortunately, neither of these things are true on Drupal 6.
Create a Drupal Photo Gallery Using Flickr, CCK & Views, Take Two
Back in February, I wrote a quick tutorial on how you can leverage Views, CCK and the Flickr module to create a photo gallery in Drupal. It is by far the most popular post on this humble site of mine (garnering about 36% of my traffic). Long story short, the Flickr module was updated (for the better) and the tutorial was outdated. The technique I described in the original tutorial was no longer correct. So, people following it (trusing that I knew what I was talking about) couldn’t replicate the results. This post is long overdue but I hope it helps clear things up on how to get the same results with the new Flickr module.
