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If you're not making your photo gallery with Views, you're doing it wrong. And it's been done with Views for a long time.

That looks interesting but incomplete: galleries? access control? only displays single column? Also, it's written for D4, so likely in need of revision.

Create an image gallery using CCK and Views is more promising.

However, I have no interest in converting a couple dozen photo albums to some other format, hence I'm stuck at D6, and may well move to ZenPhoto if I must migrate. The photo site hasn't had new albums created in at least a year, and probably no photos added since last summer; it's gone mostly inactive.

And Misery? You can't seriously be using a module that has only 123 users (at time of posting) and complain about lack of support!

Note that I wasn't complaining. I also probably shouldn't have used "rely" -- they were hobby projects that, once found by spammers, became honey pots -- I make them suffer Misery so they don't spam everyone else.

Finally, Drupal 8 isn't there yet at all, and may be released in August next year.

I'm curious if there will be any API changes between D7 & D8?

If you're not making your photo gallery with Views, you're doing it wrong. And it's been done with Views for a long time. And Misery? You can't seriously be using a module that has only 123 users (at time of posting) and complain about lack of support!

Finally, Drupal 8 isn't there yet at all, and may be released in August next year.

FWIW it was a reference to this song

There have been cover versions as well.

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This book was great when it came out. Over a year ago. Strange to get such a late review of a book. Fortunately a lot of things are still accurate, and Drupal 6 has been the main release during this entire time, but sheesh. The contributed modules have improved a lot since then.

As far as Drupal itself goes, it's great. Yesterday my boss asked me to put together a secure site where a select group of people could discuss the upcoming budget cuts. The site needed to be attractive, secure, support single signon (integrating with our existing directory), restricted to one group of users, allow optional anonymity of posters (after authentication), and allow users to subscribe to threads.

Starting from scratch, I had it all done in an hour an twenty minutes with Drupal (plus the hidden author, subscriptions, pubcookie, pubcookie site access, secure pages, and views modules).

There seems to be a great deal of frustration and outright ignorance about how Drupal works in the postings above. If you want to be able to wield a complex weapon like Drupal, try the following resources.

For examples on how to create common types of sites using popular, well-supported modules: Using Drupal, O'Reilly

If you're a designer working with Drupal and want to understand how to work with it: Front End Drupal, Prentice Hall

If you're a coder and want to know how Drupal works internally: Pro Drupal Development, Apress

If you're not a book reader but like watching videos, pretty much anything put out by Lullabot

If you're not a coder or designer but a power user who has to deal with Drupal's admittedly byzantine administrative interface: Drupal 6 Content Administration

It depends on what kind of image gallery you're looking for. There are a few image gallery modules available at drupal.org, and those might be what you're looking for.

Another way to do it is the views and cck way. There's a screencast over at lullabot. If you go this route, you probably want to look at the image_fupload module, too.

I've used CakePHP (1.2 beta) and Drupal (4,5 and 6) but Drupal more recently. I like both very much. If I were building a site with the features you describe I'd go with Drupal. Either way you've got a lot of learning ahead of you but at least with Drupal, if you get it right, you'll have the benefit of piles of modules that are already tested and other people who are familiar with them. CakePHP can get you just as far but in my experience you're doing a deeper pile of custom code.

There are at least a couple of popular shopping carts for Drupal. I'm building a simple Ubercart site.

The other popular contrib modules you're almost sure to run in to are Views and CCK. You'll want to get some screencasts or podcasts to get familiar with those (Lullabot does some good ones - they're also the authors of this book).

I've been doing a lot with Views lately and a little with CCK. There's a pile of stuff you can do with very little custom code in the right places. It just takes a lot of effort to learn what works well together.

http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/the_drupal_song

Amuse/annoy your coworkers!

Outside of drupal.org, the guys at Lullabot have some awesome resources (articles, videos, podcast).

API: http://api.drupal.org/

Unit tests: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/introduction-unit-testing

Upgrading cues: http://drupal.org/project/coder

Drupal often gets criticized by newcomers who believe that object-oriented programming (OOP) is always the best way to design software architecture, and since they do not see the word "class" in the Drupal code, it must be inferior to other solutions. In fact, it is true that Drupal does not use many of the OOP features of PHP, but it is a mistake to think that the use of classes is synonymous with object-oriented design. This article will cover several of the features of Drupal from an object-oriented perspective, so programmers comfortable with that paradigm can begin to feel at home in the Drupal code base, and hopefully be able to choose the right tool for the job.

These guys seem to have figured it out. "it" being the give stuff away then make money on it.

http://www.lullabot.com/