Development

This tutorial assumes you have a reasonable knowledge of Drupal such as being able to create a custom module. It also requires an understanding of PHP and jQuery.

This tutorial is an addition to my previous tutorial on creating a simple gallery in Drupal 6 using CCK and views.  This tutorial will enable users to create galleries containing multiple images per node with each album being listed within a view presented by one of the node’s images.

This tutorial was written with the following versions of Drupal and module:

• Drupal 6.11
• CCK (Content Construction Kit) 6.x-2.2
• Views 6.x-2.5
• Filefield 6.x-3.0
• Imagefield 6.x-3.0
• ImageAPI 6.x-1.6
• Imagecache 6.x-2.0-beta9
• Lightbox2 6.x-1.9

Note: These were the latest versions as of writing this tutorial.

I just set up XAMPP on my Vista x64 PC and found that after installing Drupal 6 that the status report was throwing up an error.

HTTP request status

Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.

FileZilla FTP Client - http://filezilla-project.org/
A FTP client to upload documents from your computer to your web server. Also supports SFTP for secure transfering of files.