Building a photo gallery with CubicWeb

Desired features

• basically a photo gallery

• photo stored on the file system and displayed dynamically through a web interface

• navigation through folder (album), tags, geographical zone, people on the picture… using facets

• advanced security (not everyone can see everything). More on this later.

• 1. Cube creation and schema definition
  • 1.1. Step 1: creating a virtual environment
  • 1.2. Step 2: creating a new cube for my web site
  • 1.3. Step 3: pick building blocks into existing cubes
  • 1.4. Step 4: glue everything together in my cube’s schema
  • 1.5. Step 5: creating the instance
• 2. Security, testing and migration
  • 2.1. Step 1: configuring security into the schema
  • 2.2. Step 2: security propagation in hooks
  • 2.3. Step 3: testing our security
  • 2.4. Step 4: writing the migration script and migrating the instance
• 3. Storing images on the file-system
  • 3.1. Step 1: configuring the BytesFileSystem storage
  • 3.2. Step 2: importing some data into the instance
  • 3.3. Conclusion
• 4. Let’s make it more user friendly
  • 4.1. Step 1: let’s improve site’s usability for our visitors
  • 4.2. Step 2: providing a custom index page
  • 4.3. Step 3: more navigation improvements
  • 4.4. Step 4: preparing the release and migrating the instance
• 5. Building my photos web site with CubicWeb part V: let’s make it even more user friendly
  • 5.1. Step 1: tired of the default look?
  • 5.2. Step 2: configuring boxes
  • 5.3. Step 3: configuring facets
  • 5.4. Conclusion