By bendshead on

I am hoping someone could advise on the path of least resistance to get my existing site looking and behaving the same way in Drupal: http://locustvalleyfd.com/.

From a design perspective, I am comfortable getting the UI just the same, but there are three pieces of functionality which I am really unsure how to tackle given the wealth of mods and documentation out there (a bit overwhelming!).

I think that what I am trying to do is relatively simple, and I've seen it done on Drupal sites (just don't know how) so perhaps you could point out the existing mods, case studies, documentation on how-to...?

1. Associate a photo with each page of content
In the admin, I'd like to be able to associate a photo with each page or story of content. I'm thinking something like an upload field and browse button that I can use to drop my photo in there. For example, on my existing site where we have the Fund Drive page, we also have a nice little picture from a fund drive: http://locustvalleyfd.com/page.php?page=funddrive

2. Blog
There's a number of blog mods out there and out of the box, Drupal has some blog-like behaviors with the content so I'm really a bit unsure here... I'd like to be to create a content block with a blog archive (think Word Press) of the last 12 months of blog entries, listed by month with number of entries beside it. When you click on the month, the respective page will display all entries for that month. See top left of homepage under News and click any month: http://locustvalleyfd.com

3. Associate Photos with Blogs
Next to each blog entry, I'd like to be able to display some thumbnails that the user could click on to open full-size. From the admin panel of the respective blog entry, I envision something like a few upload fields and browse buttons. For example, you can see the kind of result I'm looking for at http://mlfd.com/

Much thanks for any and all guidance!

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WorldFallz commented

#1: imagefield (which requires cck)
#2: multivalue imagefield and lightbox2. Also take a look at imagacache.
#3: Core blog module and probably the views module as well (include an 'archive' view).

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bendshead commented

I appreciate the mod names. Shaved a few hours digging around for sure...

I've got the "blog archive" displaying by month as hoped for. Thanks.

Displaying (and associating) an image with a content page type has not been going so well. Here's what I did...

  1. I installed and enabled mods for CCK, including imagefield and filefield.
  2. In Content Types, I manage fields for Page.
  3. I created a new field label and field
  4. Under field type, I chose "File" (I was kind of expecting to see "Image")
  5. Under Widget, I selected "File Upload"

Now when I create a new page, I get the upload box and can I upload an image, however it's the display of the image that's troubling me. When I view the content page, the image displays as a link however I am trying to get the image to render on the page. What did I miss?

If there's some documentation you can point me to, I'm sure I could drive from there, but not all the mods are documented, so am going about this "intuitively"...

Thanks, again!

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Ylan commented

You should indeed be able to select the "Image" field type. This is what the imagefield module should take care for. Maybe you need to empty the Drupal cache (Site settings>Perfomance).

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bendshead commented

I tried dumping the cache in the performance settings, but I still don't get any option for imagefield type in my dropdowns or otherwise when managing fields.

This is a screenshot of my mods setup: http://sunflower.net63.net/drupal_dev/mods-imgfld.gif Perhaps the issue? Notice imagefield is unchecked/greyed out, however enabled for Content and Filefield modes (missing Image API).

Any other thoughts how I can get the imagefield to appear, so I can continue with my "intuitive development" again?

Anyone else seen any documentation, tutorials, anything about uploading, associating or displaying images with page, story, or blog nodes? I don't want to reinvent the wheel here... : )

Thanks!

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WorldFallz commented

Ok-- the answer is right in the screenshot. Imagefield is disabled therefore it won't appear in the field type drop down. The reason its not able to be enabled is because a dependency, imageapi, is missing (note the red word 'missing' underneath it). Install the imageapi module, enable the imagefield module, and you should be good to go.

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bendshead commented

As mentioned, I did get a blog archive happening with the Views mod some hours before Corey Smith sent me the link to this great tutorial on how-to: http://www.tributemedia.com/education/tutorials/drupal_archive_list

This is something many folks are looking to, epecially considering the number of people coming over from Word Press who are looking for the blogging features of Word Press plus all the sweetness of Drupal. No doubt it would be good to cement this excellent documentation somewhere in the Drupal community so it's easier to find. Can someone advise a best or better place to post it?