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By .bob@drupal.org on
I'm currently running a website that revolves around pictures and reports of certain events. I didn't expect the kind of succes it has and it has therefor grown to large to be maintained by hand. However I don't know a thing about php and am kinda stuck there. Then a friend pointed me to Drupal. What I'm looking for is something where I can have users contribute reports that appear on the site after I ok'd them. The reports should be linked to a photo-gallery system in a way that they are arranged per month, that some 'sample' photo's appear in the reports whithout me having to make thumbs to put in. There should also be an easy navigation back and forth between gallery and reports. that's about it for the special needs, the rest of the site will will consist of some static info pages, a forum, mailing-list and poll.
so my big question... can drupal do all this and will it take a lot of adjustments?
thanks.
Comments
Yes, but
These are the things that drupal can do :
"users contribute reports that appear on the site after I ok'd them"
Most definately. You can have users create the "reports" (which can be of any type of node) and in the drupal settings, make sure that approval is needed before they are published.
About the linking to a photo gallery page, and thumbnails -- this looks like the job for a custom module (or the customization of a image + filestore module). Not that impossible to do for a person with PHP knowledge, however, you might not want to undertake this task.
The easy navigation is not a problem, especially with the breadcrumb module.
I honestly think that a photolog would suit you better. Think of it as a "lite" version of drupal, but specialized for galleries. Doing a google search will get you started. A personal recommendation is movabletype which is an excellent weblog application. Using movabletype and these instructions I think you will get what you are after.
Best of luck
Photoblog
I was disappointed with the response "movabletype"
It's written in Perl. I'm over Perl. It's a pain for most of us non-programmer types. We like PHP . It's easier to modify.
moveabletype looks beautiful. No questions about it.
But why not in PHP?
Is it too much to ask that when someone posts a story, they should be able to also post a picture and that the program would resize the picture if the site has imagemagick or GD ?
Marino
May be you should consider us
May be you should consider using image module with stories. Image module will allow your users to upload images and will create thumbnails for you. Then using a simple syntax, users will be able to insert images into their stories (reports). Clicking on the thumbnail will display the full size image with a link to the gallery it belongs to...