Picasa module - include album thumbnails into block
Hi,
I've just installed the picasa module.
I then did the following:
- create new Picasa Album
- imported album from picasa (worked great with the progress bar for images as they are imported). Once done, I had photos in my drupal picasa album that consists of drupal picasa photos.
- Browsing to the picasa album node page, I would see the album thumbnails, made from all the photos within this album.
- Clicking on a thumbnail directs you to the picasa photo page, which displays the photo in full size.
Basically what I want to do is have the album thumbnails (like those that are created automatically on the Picasa Album page) display in the "About" node page, under the text about me. I believe the best way to achieve this is to create a block made up of those thumbnails, then displaying this block on the "About" page only. Correct me if this is not the best way to achieve this :)
So using Views, I began trying to create this thumbnail block which is made up of smaller images from my album.
See image screen of my block view attempt:
http://www.acolour.com/sites/default/files/picasa_block_view.jpg
This only listed the title of images and the link to the image on the drupal website. I couldn't find anything from the node fields within Views retrieve the path to the actual source of the images, with smaller sizes. Like this path:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_5pZICjL4kps/SngM-tkTY2I/AAAAAAAAAYM/HYt75XKfmus/ph...
I did read that the author mentioning:
cyberswat said:
"...however, I haven't quite gotten around to writing the integration pieces to expose the picasa content types to views."
Maybe this is why I can't get enough data to build this simple block.
So what are my option?
Do I build my own block module that manualy queries the relevant picasa table, genrates the thumbnails, then themes and displays them?
Or is there another way?
My about page: http://www.acolour.com/about
My album page: http://www.acolour.com/random-photos
Any help appreciated :)

This has been achieved by: -
This has been achieved by:
- Building my own block module that manualy queries the relevant picasa table, genrates the thumbnails, then themes and displays them