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This concept was slightly changed versus previous Photoblog on Drupal idea. The biggest thing missing with the new concept comparing to the previous one is lack of any user level permissions. Any kind of private content was not so popular among my friends and colleagues so it was dropped (everybody prefer email for this type of images).

I've decided to try MAMP on new Mac OS X 10.5. Mostly because PHP bundled with Leopard doesn't have GD library (otherwise it has quite cool set of modules). The other reason that is better Marc Liyanage's PHP installer is not yet ready for Leopard.

But after backing up all my MySQL databases (around 200Mb dump) it turned out that you can't acces MAMP's mysql via terminal to restore it (or I was something terribly missing from FAQs).

Basic 5.1 update is running fine. But there are some things yet to be updated and extended. Some new features for theme are in works. Super nice image_exact.module is missing for Drupal 5.x unfortunately (actually the only big upset). Other modules are basically the same as it was for 4.7 for now. I'll write more as soon as I'll have extra modules updated / installed.

Comments are back.

Here are the main reasons why I've chosen Drupal over dedicated photoblogging scripts:

• User and access management (as I want my friends to be able to access some "friends only" images)
• Email notifications for new content + various RSS feeds (general / per tag / ...)
• Text blog
• Better functionality, flexibility and extendibility
• RSS aggregator to link to my friends' news
• Nice and clean urls
• and... I'm quite familiar with Drupal code and themes (and this was probably the main reason)

After drawing a concept it was not very difficult to assemble photoblog on Drupal. But I made 3 differently setup installations before this final one was released. And I had to make several php code snippets and module code modifications to make the whole thing work the way I want.