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+title: Create a Flickr Photo Gallery Using Feeds, CCK and Views
+date: 2010-06-28
+excerpt:
+    In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a photo gallery which uses
+    photos imported from Flickr.
+tags:
+    - drupal-planet
+    - drupal-6
+    - photo-gallery
+    - views
+    - cck
+    - imagecache
+    - feeds
+    - filefield
+    - flickr
+    - imagefield
+---
+
+In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a photo gallery which uses photos
+imported from [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com).
+
+The modules that I'll use to create the Gallery are:
+
+- [CCK](http://drupal.org/project/cck)
+- [Feeds](http://drupal.org/project/feeds)
+- [Feeds Image Grabber](http://drupal.org/project/feeds_imagegrabber)
+- [FileField](http://drupal.org/project/filefield)
+- [ImageAPI](http://drupal.org/project/imageapi)
+- [ImageCache](http://drupal.org/project/imagecache)
+- [ImageField](http://drupal.org/project/imagefield)
+- [Views](http://drupal.org/project/views)
+
+The first thing that I did was to create a content type to store my imported
+images. I named it 'Photo', removed the Body field, and added an Image field.
+
+Next, I installed and configured the Feeds and Image Grabber module. I used an
+overridden default Feed to import my photos from Flickr using the following
+settings:
+
+- **Basic settings:** I changed the Refresh time to 15 minutes.
+- **Processor settings:** I changed the content type to 'Photo', and the
+  author's name from 'anonymous'.
+- **Processor mapping:** I added a new mapping from 'Item URL (link)' to 'Photo
+  (FIG)'. The Photo FIG target is added by the Image Grabber module.
+
+Next, I needed to create the actual Feed, which I did by clicking 'Import'
+within the Navigation menu, and clicking 'Feed'. I gave it a title, entered the
+URL to my RSS feed from Flickr, and enabled the Image Grabber for this feed.
+
+Once the Feed is created, the latest 20 images from the RSS feed are imported
+and 20 new Photos nodes are created. In the example below, the image with the
+'Photo' label is the Image field mapped by the Image Grabber module. It is this
+image that I'll be displaying within my Gallery.
+
+With the new Photo nodes created, I then created the View to display them.
+
+The View selects the image within the Photo content type, and displays in it a
+grid using an ImageCache preset. The View is limited to 20 nodes per page, and
+uses a full pager if this is exceeded. The nodes are sorted by the descending
+post date, and filtered by whether or not they are published, and only to
+include Photo nodes.
+
+As an additional effect, I also included the 'Feeds Item - Item Link' field,
+which is basically the original link from the RSS feed. By checking the box the
+exclude the item from the display, it is not shown, but makes the link available
+to be used elsewhere. By checking the box 'Re-write the output for this field'
+on the 'Content: Photo' field, I was able to add the replacement token (in this
+case, [url]) as the path for a link around each image. This meant that when
+someone clicked a thumbnail of a photo, they were directed to the Flickr website
+instead of the node within my Drupal site.