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 Long story short, the Flickr module was updated (for the better) and the tutorial was outdated.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.

You often hear people say that the learning curve for Drupal is steep. They aren’t kidding – it is. I remember when I first started Drupaling, I had so many questions: How do I do this? How do I change that? What are Views? How the hell do I get images into my content? How do I theme? The Drupal documentation and community has come a long way in the few years since then, but even still, diving in to Drupal can be a bit daunting. In an effort to help remedy this, I’ve thrown together some quick-tips to steer all you beginners in the right direction.

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.

Full disclaimer here: I love jQuery – I use it all the time. jQuery has made my life as a designer/developer so much better. I use is it on all of my sites – which means I use it within Drupal. When I first got started developing sites with Drupal a few years ago, I remember thinking, “How the hell do I add my own JavaScript?!”. Needless to say, I’ve learned a lot since then.

There are a number of different ways to include jQuery plugins or one-off scripts into your sites/pages. Here’s an overview of some of the ways to do it. The solution you use will likely depend on your workflow or comfort working within the Drupal theme system.

Last week a client of ours at CHROMATIC requested an addition to the default contact form that ships with Drupal. Essentially, they just wanted to add a required “Phone Number” text field to the form. Additionally, they wanted this value to be sent along with the email that the contact module sends. One solution would have been to ditch the contact.module and just whip up a new page using the WebForm module. The other solution is to override both the form/email using the following hooks respectively in our own module:

• hook_form_alter()
• hook_mail_alter()