Ceros is an innovative online magazine publishing platform. When they asked for my help, the site was already in existence but needed several enhancements to improve its manageability, including the creation of new content types, associated views and theming. XML versions of content were required as data sources for various Flash animations.

One particular challenge was the requirement for some data associated with a type to have a more complex structure than the CCK module normally provides, which I solved by writing a new module which represents both the data and its definition as XML.

A common requirement is to have a Flash-based image gallery associated with a particular content type, so users can upload images using a CCK image field and have them displayed as a gallery, with each node of the type having its own separate one. Here’s an example of the sort of thing, one I created for a project last year.

In this article I’ll show how to make such a gallery, using the excellent Art Flash Gallery with Drupal. It is not to be a detailed tutorial: I’ll just describe the essential steps involved. When I get time I may provide more of the specifics.
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