Installing phpMyAdmin on Windows and IIS 6.0

This article will show the exact steps for setting up phpMyAdmin on Windows and IIS 6.0.
phpMyAdmin is a web-based tool for managing MySQL database servers.  I would go so far as to say it is indispensable.  The latest version as of this writing is 3.1.3.

Dependencies

Note that this application requires that the following PHP extensions have been installed:

• MySQL
• GD
• MBString

To check whether these extensions are installed, open the php.ini file in the PHP installation directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\PHP) and make sure that the following lines are uncommented:

• extension=php_mysql.dll
• extension=php_gd2.dll
• extension=php_mbstring.dll

Download phpMyAdmin

1. Download the appropriate package (english.zip for me)
2. Extract the files.
3. Find the lowest directory containing all the files (phpMyAdmin-3.1.3-english for me) and copy that to a directory like C:\Inetpub\wwwroot.
4. Rename the resulting directory as phpMyAdmin, so the resulting path will be C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\phpMyAdmin.

Configure as an Application in IIS

It is usually preferable to run applications in their own application pool so they don’t affect other applications and so you can manage them independently.

1. Launch the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
    
2. Right-click on Application Pools and select New –> Application Pool.  Type phpMyAdmin as the name of the application pool and click OK.
   
3. Click on the Web Sites node in the navigation pane and double-click on Default Web Site.
   
4. Right-click on phpMyAdmin in the right pane and select Properties.  Click the Create button next to Application name.  Set the application pool to the previously-created phpMyAdmin application pool.  Click OK and then click OK on the phpMyAdmin Properties dialog box.
   

Configuring phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin stores its settings in a file called config.inc.php.  To create the file, we will start with a sample configuration file provided with the phpMyAdmin download.

1. Open the file config.sample.inc.php in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\phpMyAdmin.
2. Find the line that says $cfg['blowfish_secret'].  You must put something between the empty single quotes in order for phpMyAdmin to work.  You can put anything here.  I’ll put in DPotter.net.phpMyAdmin01.
    
3. Find the lines that say $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] and $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] and uncomment them (remove the leading //).  Change the password.  These are used for accessing advanced features in phpMyAdmin.  For this demo I’ll set it the password to dpotter.net. Note that it is a good idea to change the username for security purposes since pma is the default username.
   
4. Find the section Advanced phpMyAdmin features and uncomment all the lines under it.
   
5. Save this file as config.inc.php.

Testing

At this point phpMyAdmin is ready to use.  Let’s test it out by navigating to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.

Type root for the username and type the password you specified when installing MySQL.  Then click the Go button.  At this point you are good to go.  You can create databases, update tables, delete rows, inspect data, etc.

Creating the phpMyAdmin SQL Account

Now is the time to create the user you specified in step #3 above for the controluser setting (defaults to pma). Once you’ve logged in to phpMyAdmin, click on the SQL tab and type or paste the following text:
CREATE USER 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
You’ll want to replace your_password with the password you selected in step #3 above, and if you changed the username, replace pma with what you specified. Then click the Go button. Once you’ve done this, the error message at the bottom of the page will go away.

How To Create Custom Forms Using Drupal In 4 Easy Steps

Until now the only way to create your own forms was by creating a plugin or hack the core of the content management system. Drupal however has a community created module that allows anyone to create a form on a website. The form can either send the entered data to your email address or save it in a database or both. There are a number of reasons why you will need to create a form. Here are some examples:

• Create a Bug Report form for your buyers or users for your software
• Register for an upcoming event.
• Submit content to the website
• Add a help desk to your drupal website

When the form is filled out, we may want the entries to be

• Sent to us by e-mail
• Save to the database

One can create a form in drupal without any coding knowledge. This tutorial shows how to create a registration form using drupal. In this tutorial we will be creating a academic research paper registration form. The form will take the name, number of participants, the event they want to attend, the name of their college, number of participants, brief abstract, and the files that show the full paper of the event.

I have chosen this form because this demonstrates the many commonly needed form field elements – one line text fields, multiple selection fields, radio buttons, multi line text areas and file upload fields. I assume that you already have a installation of drupal somewhere. If not, read my earlier article on the steps to install drupal on your shared hosting server. Our form will have the following fields

Field Name	Field Type
Name	Textfield
E-Mail	Textfield
Title of Paper	Textfield
College Name	Textfield
Brief abstract	TextArea
Number of participants	Select Field
Research Paper as Word Document	File field

Step 1: Download webform module from drupal.org.

Webform is the module we are going to use to create forms. This module adds a new content type of “webform” which will be our form. The webform module can be downloaded here..

Step 2: Enable the webform module.

Upload the modules files to the [website root]/sites/all/modules directory. The modules directory may need to be created if it doesn’t already exist. To learn how to install drupal modules, read my artilce on the same topic here.

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Step 3: Create New Form

Enter the menu settings for the form where you can specify in which menu you want a link to this form to appear along with its link text. Then specify the form name, public description that appears above the form, and the text to show after the form has been filled.

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Next specify to which e-mail address the content of this form is to be sent along with the subject, from address that is seen in the e-mail received. If the form will be used by registered users you can also specify how many times a user is allowed to register the form.

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Finally specify the text that is on the button such as “Register” or “Save” or “Submit”. Under comment settings, make sure you disable the form as it would look awkward and confusing to have a comment field below the registration form.

Create New Web Form

Click on Create Content link on the navigation menu click on Web Form

Enter the form’s information such as name and the email address where the form’s information is to be sent when it is submitted by the user. It is also possible to customize the validation of the form.

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Step 4: Create the form fields

When you click save, you will now see a empty list. You can now start adding form fields to the form. Enter the appropriate field name in the name field, select the appropriate type in the type column, specify it it is an email and if this field takes an email address and click Add.

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Having created the form’s page, now you can add its form fields

In the resulting form, enter the name, default value if any, the description to be given for the and optionally the width, maxlength, label to be placed before the textbox and after the textbox. There is a section for advanced settings if you want to customize the field further.

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Enter the name, select the type of field, specify if the field is mandatory and specify if this field is an email address.

Create form field form. Enter name, brief description, a default value if applicable.

Do the same for the name, email, title and college name fields.

The participants field is given a limit of 1-3 participants so we should make it a drop down selection box allowing the user to select the number of participants. For the number of participants field, select the field as the type. Once you click Add, you will see a textarea labeled ‘Options’. Enter the options one in each line.

Enter the options you want to display in the drop down field. Make sure you check the

Listbox check box to display the options as a select item instead of a set of radio boxes.

In this case we are going to enter 1,2 and 3 each in its own line.

For the research paper files field we choose a field of type file and click Add.

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Now we’re presented we have an option to specify the acceptable file types of this field. I have selected doc, pdf, odf, html, rar, bz2, gz and zip and specified a upload limit of 800kb. Save the form field.

Now click publish to see the form. When you fill the form out and click submit, sends the following e-mail to the e-mail address we specified in step 3.

Closing Notes

Using the webform module anyone can create a webform. Even non-programmers can create forms for their website using this method.

Contact Form in Drupal

1. Go to Administer>Modules>Enabled Contact>save

(*Roles – Drupal 6.13*)

http://www.garunawebdesigner.com/?p=8955

2. Go to Administer>Permissions>Enabled Contact Module>save

3. Go to Administer>Site Building>

Contact Form>

4. Add category>save

5. Contact Form

Creating a new front page with Views and Panels 3

When you have tools as useful as Views and Panels 3, you'll want to be able to use them together. To figure out how to use them together, let's create a new front page. Drupal's standard front page is useful, but we want something a little more. Please note that the screenshots are from Panels 2, but are similar to Panels 3.

1. The first thing to do is make sure you have both Views and Panels 3 installed. You don't need all of the Panels modules, but it's easiest to enable them all at once.
2. The next step is to create the views we'll need. The first one we need, the front page view, is a sample view that comes with Views. Let's enable that.
3. Click Views (Site Building > Views). This brings you to the Views management page. On the bottom, under the 'Default Views' heading, find the 'frontpage' default view, and click 'Add'. Note that this screenshot is for Views 1; the Views 2 screen is different, but the frontpage view is still available.
   
4. Click 'Save' at the bottom.
5. Views 2 has an 'archive' view provided by default. Simply enable it.
6. Click 'Save' at the bottom.
7. Now, on to the panel. Before we can create the panel, you need to make sure Panels can "see" the content you've created. Click the 'Settings' tab at the top. (Administer > Site Building > Panels > Settings > Panel pages)
8. Make sure everything under the 'New content behavior' heading is checked, especially the checkboxes next to 'New All Views' and 'New Views Panes
9. Save.
10. Now, to create the panel. Click Panel pages (Administer > Site Building > Panels > Panel Page).
11. Set the Name to: front_page
12. Set the Administrative title to: Home
13. Set the Path to: front (Alternately, you can check the "Make this your home site page" checkbox.)
    
14. Click 'Continue' at the bottom.
15. Let's select the 'Flexible' layout, which allows us to create our own layout.
    
16. Click Continue.
17. The 'Layout settings' tab that you are brought to looks intimidating, but we're just making a couple changes. One of the benefits of selecting a flexible layout is being able to easily manipulate your panel to have any kind of configuration.
18. Now, we want some custom dimensions for the panel, so we'll need to invole the Layout designer. Click the "Show Layout designer" button.
19. In the Region menu, select Region settings, and change the region title to "Left".
20. Move up a 'box' to the row. In the Row menu, select "Add region to right". Title this region "Right".
21. Use the slider bar to set the width to 80 on the left, 20 on the right.
22. Click Finish.
23. Now we need to add a menu item. Click the 'Menu' tab on the left.
24. Click the checkbox next to 'Normal menu entry'.
25. Set the Weight to: -10 and the Title to 'Home'.
26. Click 'Update' at the bottom.
27. Click the 'Content' tab on the left.
28. Click the gear icon in the left pane.
29. Under the 'Views' heading, find and select the 'frontpage' view we added earlier.
30. Select the display you wish to use (try page if it's available.)
31. Click Continue.
32. Click the checkbox next to 'Link title to view'.
33. Click the checkbox next to 'Provide a "more" link that links to the view'.
34. Click 'Finish' at the bottom.
35. Click the gear icon in the right pane.
36. Under the 'Activity' heading, find and select 'Who's new'.
37. Click 'Finish' at the bottom.
38. Click the gear icon in the right pane.
39. Under the 'Activity' heading, find and select 'Who's online'.
40. Click 'Finish' at the bottom.
41. Click the gear icon in the right pane.
42. Under the 'Views' heading, find and select 'archive'. Use the block display.
43. lick Continue
44. Click the checkbox next to 'Link title to view'.
45. Click 'Finish' at the bottom.
46. Click the gear icon in the right pane.
47. Under the 'Activity' heading, find and select 'Recent comments'.
48. Click 'Finish' at the bottom.
49. Click 'Save' at the bottom.
    
50. Now, one last thing to do; we still have to make our front page the front page. Go to the 'Site information' menu (Administer > Site configuration > Site information).
51. Set the Default front page to: front
52. Click 'Save configuration' at the bottom.
53. Click the 'Home' menu item we added on the menu.
54. Voila, we have overriden the front page with a panel!
    

To add Custom fields to a content type in Drupal

For this common need, to extend blog, page, story or your own custom content type, you need to install one of the most important contributed modules, the Content Construction Kit or CCK.

1. Install CCK and enable the individual modules that CCK offers.
2. Follow the Getting Started instructions, in particular:
   1. Go to Administer > Content Management > Content Types (/admin/content/types)
   2. Select the Add new field tab, and follow the on-screen instructions.

   (for Drupal6 goto Administer >Content Management > Content Types > List. Chose the Manage Fields option next to the Content Type which you want to add fields to.

The CCK module only adds a few field types. Several contributed projects provide additional field types and widgets for CCK. A list of all CCK related modules is available here

Additional information is available at http://drupal.org/modules/cck/documentation

Create Custom Forms Using Drupal In 4 Easy Steps

Until now the only way to create your own forms was by creating a plugin or hack the core of the content management system. Drupal however has a community created module that allows anyone to create a form on a website. The form can either send the entered data to your email address or save it in a database or both. There are a number of reasons why you will need to create a form. Here are some examples:

• Create a Bug Report form for your buyers or users for your software
• Register for an upcoming event.
• Submit content to the website
• Add a help desk to your drupal website

When the form is filled out, we may want the entries to be

• Sent to us by e-mail
• Save to the database

One can create a form in drupal without any coding knowledge. This tutorial shows how to create a registration form using drupal. In this tutorial we will be creating a academic research paper registration form. The form will take the name, number of participants, the event they want to attend, the name of their college, number of participants, brief abstract, and the files that show the full paper of the event.

I have chosen this form because this demonstrates the many commonly needed form field elements – one line text fields, multiple selection fields, radio buttons, multi line text areas and file upload fields. I assume that you already have a installation of drupal somewhere. If not, read my earlier article on the steps to install drupal on your shared hosting server. Our form will have the following fields

Field Name	Field Type
Name	Textfield
E-Mail	Textfield
Title of Paper	Textfield
College Name	Textfield
Brief abstract	TextArea
Number of participants	Select Field
Research Paper as Word Document	File field

Step 1: Download webform module from drupal.org.

Webform is the module we are going to use to create forms. This module adds a new content type of “webform” which will be our form. The webform module can be downloaded here..

Step 2: Enable the webform module.

Upload the modules files to the [website root]/sites/all/modules directory. The modules directory may need to be created if it doesn’t already exist. To learn how to install drupal modules, read my artilce on the same topic here.

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Step 3: Create New Form

Enter the menu settings for the form where you can specify in which menu you want a link to this form to appear along with its link text. Then specify the form name, public description that appears above the form, and the text to show after the form has been filled.

Click to enlarge

Next specify to which e-mail address the content of this form is to be sent along with the subject, from address that is seen in the e-mail received. If the form will be used by registered users you can also specify how many times a user is allowed to register the form.

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Finally specify the text that is on the button such as “Register” or “Save” or “Submit”. Under comment settings, make sure you disable the form as it would look awkward and confusing to have a comment field below the registration form.

Create New Web Form

Click on Create Content link on the navigation menu click on Web Form

Enter the form’s information such as name and the email address where the form’s information is to be sent when it is submitted by the user. It is also possible to customize the validation of the form.

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Step 4: Create the form fields

When you click save, you will now see a empty list. You can now start adding form fields to the form. Enter the appropriate field name in the name field, select the appropriate type in the type column, specify it it is an email and if this field takes an email address and click Add.

Click to see enlarge

Having created the form’s page, now you can add its form fields

In the resulting form, enter the name, default value if any, the description to be given for the and optionally the width, maxlength, label to be placed before the textbox and after the textbox. There is a section for advanced settings if you want to customize the field further.

Click to enlarge

Enter the name, select the type of field, specify if the field is mandatory and specify if this field is an email address.

Create form field form. Enter name, brief description, a default value if applicable.

Do the same for the name, email, title and college name fields.

The participants field is given a limit of 1-3 participants so we should make it a drop down selection box allowing the user to select the number of participants. For the number of participants field, select the field as the type. Once you click Add, you will see a textarea labeled ‘Options’. Enter the options one in each line.

Enter the options you want to display in the drop down field. Make sure you check the

Listbox check box to display the options as a select item instead of a set of radio boxes.

In this case we are going to enter 1,2 and 3 each in its own line.

For the research paper files field we choose a field of type file and click Add.

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Now we’re presented we have an option to specify the acceptable file types of this field. I have selected doc, pdf, odf, html, rar, bz2, gz and zip and specified a upload limit of 800kb. Save the form field.

Now click publish to see the form. When you fill the form out and click submit, sends the following e-mail to the e-mail address we specified in step 3.

good Drupal image module

After trying out every Drupal module and combination of modules out there for image upload I was still frustrated and decided to design my own. I wanted to be able to:

• Upload an image
• Have thumbnails generated automatically
• Specify size to resize to of one or both of the thumbnail and big image
• Browse and choose images from my uploaded library, specify float, alt attributes, link to options, and have the HTML generated for me and pasted into my node at the current cursor position.

I really like the image upload feature built into Wordpress but it lacks in just a few areas:

1. Thumbnail resizing is hard coded to a very small image that you can’t change
2. You can’t resize the main image after uploading so if you have a very large image from your digital camera you can’t make it a reasonable size for the web
3. You can’t have WP insert float left or right into your image tag for you which is something I do a lot in blog posts and Drupal sites.

So I designed this new Drupal image upload module, Image Picker to function just like the Wordpress image upload but with all the extras I want.

Download Image Picker

Here are some screenshots:

Upload an Image

Insert Image into Node

Browse All Uploaded Images

Edit an Image You’ve Uploaded

All of these features can be performed from within new/update of a node just like Wordpress so you can upload while you compose your content. For more info on use, see the readme file in the module. This module is only for Drupal 5.xx. I’d like to thank Algirdas Simutis for all of his hard work on this module I was so picky about

Download Image Picker

How to Create a Photo Gallery in Drupal

In this tutorial, we're going to walk you through the process of setting up a photo gallery system in Drupal; in the process, we're going to take a fairly close look at the Drupal CCK and Views modules.

Prerequisites

1. This tutorial makes use of a couple of Drupal modules that are not installed by default in the CWS Drupal distribution (imagecache and imagefield); if you'd like to use this functionality, just let us know and we'll install the extra modules for you.

Creating the Photo Content Type

First, you're going to need to set up a special content type allowing photo uploads. We've covered the basic content type creation process in another tutorial, so here we'll focus mainly on setting up the image upload field.

1. Create a new content type called "Photo".
2. Then, find your way to its "Manage fields" page.
3. Under "New field", fill in the appropriate values to create a new field called "Photo". For "Type", select "File"; for "Element", select "Image". Click "Save" to continue.
4. On the following page, you can fine-tune the required characteristics of uploaded images; for instance, you can set minimum/maximum resolutions, filename extensions, and so on.
5. Under "Path settings", enter "photos" to help keep your uploaded files organized.
6. Under "ALT text settings", you can set up rules governing the text that will be displayed if your uploaded image cannot be viewed. This is extremely important for accessibility compliance; at minimum, you should check the "Enable custom alternate text" box, and also enter a sensible default for "Default ALT text": for example, "Photo contributed by [user-name]."
7. Under "Global settings", check the "Required" box to make sure that every Photo node has an uploaded photo.
8. Click "Save field settings" to continue.

Organizing your Photos

Photo sharing sites typically allow photos to be organized via at least two different facets: galleries and free tagging. We'll set up both of these facets using Drupal's built-in taxonomy module.

1. In the menu at the top of the screen, choose "Content management > Taxonomy".
2. First, we'll set up gallery categorization.
   1. Click "Add vocabulary"; vocabularies in Drupal taxonomy are simply collections of related words describing a particular content facet.
   2. Under "Vocabulary name", enter "Galleries".
   3. Under "Content types", check "Photo".
   4. Under "Settings", check "Required"; this will force every photo to be placed into a gallery when it is created.
   5. Click "Save".
3. To add a new album, you'll need to add a new taxonomy term to the vocabulary:
   1. Click "list terms" next to Galleries in the list of vocabularies.
   2. Click "Add term".
   3. Enter the name of your gallery in the "Term name" field.
   4. Click "Save".
4. Next, we'll set up free tagging. If you've already been through our Drupal First Steps tutorial, all you need to do here is make sure that your tagging vocabulary can be used on the Photo content type. If you haven't set up free tagging yet, here are the steps:
   1. Click "Add vocabulary".
   2. Under "Vocabulary name", enter "Tags".
   3. Under "Content types", check every type of content you'd like to be able to tag.
   4. Under "Settings", check "Tags" and "Multiple select".
   5. Click "Save".

Generating Thumbnails and Preview Images

Digital images come in all different shapes and sizes, which can often lead to unfortunate inconsistencies in how they are presented on the web. Fortunately, the Drupal ImageCache module provides all the flexibility you'll need for controlling the appearance of your galleries; ImageCache allows you to configure a variety of image manipulation "presets" to automatically process your uploaded images. Let's set up two presets, one for thumbnail images in the gallery view, and another for a slightly larger preview when the image is clicked.

1. In the menu at the top of the screen, choose "Site building > ImageCache".
2. First, we'll create the thumbnail preset. Thumbnails, in our example, will need to be scaled and cropped down to fit in a 120x120 pixel square; this will make it really easy to set up our gallery view later on.
   1. Click "Add new preset".
   2. Under "Preset namespace", enter "thumbnail"; then, click "Create New Preset".
   3. Under "Actions", click "Add Scale and Crop".
   4. Enter "120" for both "Width" and "Height"; then, click "Add Action".
3. Next, we'll create the preview preset. We'll use this preset when the photo is viewed on its own page, so really the main constraint is that it should be no wider than we expect the browser to be. 400 pixels is a good rule here.
   1. From the "Site building > ImageCache" page, click "Add new preset".
   2. Under "Preset namespace", enter "preview"; then, click "Create New Preset".
   3. In this case we only need scaling, not cropping; so click "Add Scale".
   4. Under "Width", enter "400".
   5. Empty out the "Height" field; we want ImageCache to generate the image's height automatically so that the image's aspect ratio remains consistent.
   6. Click "Add Action".
4. Now that the appropriate image manipulation presets are set up, we need to tell Drupal to use them as appropriate in our Photo content type. In the menu at the top of the screen, choose "Content management > Content types > Edit Photo > Display fields".
5. Under "Teaser", choose "thumbnail image linked to node". This will cause Drupal to use the thumbnail preset whenever your image node is displayed in the shortened "teaser" mode.
6. Under "Full node", choose "preview image linked to image". This will cause Drupal to display the preview image when your image node is viewed by itself, and allow the user to click to see the full, unmodified image.
7. Click "Save".

Uploading your First Photo

Now that the content type is set up, you might want to give it a spin to see how the upload form works. As it turns out, uploading a photo is now as easy as creating any other Drupal node:

1. In the menu at the top of the screen, choose "Content management > Create content > Photo".
2. Fill out the form as usual, providing a title and (optionally) a description.
3. You should also see your image upload field somewhere in the form; if you didn't change the order of the fields in your content type, it should show up just below the body field. Upload your image by browsing to it on your computer and clicking the "Upload" button.
4. Click "Save" to submit your new photo node.

You may want to upload a few more photos before continuing on with the tutorial; it'll be easier to set up the gallery view if you've got some live content to work with.

Creating a Gallery View

Once you've got your basic content type set up, it's time to tell Drupal how to generate each photo gallery. To do this, we'll set up a Drupal View that collects all the photo nodes in a particular gallery and displays them in a clean, organized grid.

Initial Setup

1. In the menu at the top of the screen, choose "Site building > Views > Add".
2. Under "View name", enter "gallery".
3. Under "View description", enter "Gallery".
4. Under "View type", choose "Node".
5. Click "Next".

Filtering for Photos

By default, a new node-based View will show all content nodes on your site, regardless of type. To fine-tune this, we'll set up a filter so that only Photo nodes are displayed:

1. Click the "+" sign in the "Filters" block.
2. In the form that appears just below the main interface, check "Node: Type"; then, click "Add".
3. On the next page, make sure that "Operator" is set to "Is one of", and check "Photo" under "Node type"; then, click "Update".

There are a couple of additional filters worth setting up, one for ensuring that the photos displayed have a gallery term, and the other for ensuring that the photos displayed have been officially published.

1. Click the "+" sign in the "Filters" block.
2. In the form that appears just below the main interface, check "Taxonomy: Vocabulary"; then, click "Add".
3. Make sure that "Operator" is set to "Is one of", and check "Galleries" under "Options"; then, click "Update".
4. Click the "+" sign in the "Filters" block once more.
5. In the form that appears just below the main interface, check "Node: Published"; then, click "Add".
6. Choose "Yes"; then, click "Update".

Limiting the View to a Single Gallery

So far we've filtered our View down to display just Photo nodes; that's a good start, but what we really want is to display just Photo nodes from within a single gallery. We could set this up as another filter, but that wouldn't give each gallery its own URL; instead, we're going to set up a URL argument.

1. Click the "+" sign in the "Arguments" block.
2. In the form that appears just below the main interface, check "Taxonomy: Term"; then, click "Add".
3. On the next page, enter "%1" for "Title"; this will cause Drupal to use the name of the gallery as the title of the view.
4. Under "Action to take if argument is not present", check "Summary, sorted ascending".
5. Under "Validator", choose "Taxonomy term".
6. Under "Vocabularies", choose "Galleries".
7. Under "Argument type", choose "Term name or synonym".
8. Click "Update" to finish creating your argument. You may need to click "Update" several more times to accept the default settings for the View summary.

Telling Drupal What to Display

Now that we've got the content selection process taken care of, we'll need to tell Drupal how each Photo node ought to be displayed in the View. All we're really interested in here is the thumbnail image, so we'll just set up a single field for that:

1. Click the "+" sign in the "Fields" block. (nb: if there is nothing to click, make sure that 'Row Style' is set to 'Field' in the Basic Settings section)
2. In the form that appears just below the main interface, check "Content: Photo (field_photo)".
3. On the next page, check "Link this field to its node".
4. Under "Label", select "None".
5. Under "Format", choose "thumbnail image linked to node".
6. Click "Update" to finish creating your field.

Telling Drupal How to Display It

Per the stated requirements, we're going to want to set up a simple grid displaying each photo's thumbnail; here are the settings:

1. In the "Basic settings" block, click the "Unformatted" link next to "Style".
2. In the form that appears just below the main interface, choose "Grid"; then, click "Update".
3. On the next page, you can make a few modifications to the default grid settings if you wish; when you're finished, click "Update" once more.

You may also want to configure the number of items displayed on each page of your View by modifying the "Items to display" and "Use pager" settings; the latter is especially important if you expect your galleries to contain more items than you configure the view to display.

Telling Drupal Where to Display It

We're almost done; all that's left is to assign our new View a page display and give it a URL.

1. In the leftmost column of the Views interface, select "Page" and click "Add display".
2. In the "Page settings" block, click the "None" link next to "Path".
3. In the form that appears just below the main interface, enter the URL path where your galleries should live; for example, "galleries". Click "Update" to finish setting up your path.
4. In the "Page settings" block, click the "No menu" link next to "Menu".
5. In the form that appears just below the main interface, you can set up a menu item for this view. Check "Normal entry" and enter "Galleries" in the "Title" field; configure the remaining fields just as you would any other Drupal menu item.
6. Click "Save" to finish setting up your View.

And that's about it! At this point, any time you'd like to add a photo, all you need to do is create a new photo node; similarly, any time you'd like to add a new gallery, you just need to add a new term to the Galleries vocabulary.

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