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A very short blog post, just to let you all know that I have uploaded a new version of Photopic.

On popular demand, this new version now supports the Next and Previous functionality of the lightbox2 module. When a photo is displayed, a visitor may navigate to the next or previous photo with ease.

These past weeks have kept me so busy that I could not dedicate as much time as I wanted to programming and I apologise to all my Photopic fans out there...but it's my manager's fault :) hehehe Let me know if you would like to sign a petition against him giving me too much work...

Anyways, this small update adds two new checkboxes on the admin page which enable the display of album description and photo captions. By default they are switched off.

For the existing users wishing to try out the new options, I recommend that the currently installed version is disabled before installing the new version. Installation as always is simple - just upload and overwrite all the existing module files.

Today I have spent a couple of minutes going through my Drupal Photopic module, removing all hard-coded css styles (missed a few from last time) and thanks to Eddy de Boer I have fixed a known issue where the module did not work correctly with Drupal clean urls switched off. I still need to do some more testing before I close the issue though.

A couple of other suggestions were also received on how I can improve and optimise the code. All of these have enabled me to learn and understand more quickly how to properly build a module for Drupal.

Thank you for all the support and encouraging comments!

As promised, I have been working on the custom css feature of Photopic. It is now working and has been uploaded as version 0.5.0-beta.

There have been quite a number of encouraging comments about the module, so I am doing something right :) There were those who sent some tips on improving it, with others going all the way as to post info about their modified code.

In the following few weeks I will be going through all the code modifications that were sent to me and continue improving Photopic, including fixing a newly discovered bug, where the module does not work when Drupal Clean URLs are not enabled.

Just two days before I leave for my three week skiing holiday, I decided to spend a few minutes working on my Drupal module called photopic.

The new version now includes the display of the album names under each of the album thumbnails. I have also added some code so that the albums and photos display a little bit better than before which coincidentally paves the way for a custom css feature.

There is still a long way to go, but I am getting there!

Feel free to download and try out photopic, and let me know what you think...

What is photopic?

The photopic module is a very simple Drupal 6.x module with only the simplest of features. Once installed and a menu link created for it, any public Picasa web albums can be displayed on your website.

Please note that the module is currently in beta, but it does work :)

Time for another update on the progress of my Drupal module which I have decided to name; PhotoPic.

I have completed quite a few important things from my growing to do list and am learning a lot along the way.

Today I have been refining my Drupal module - implemented an Admin Settings page and support for lightbox. Now the photos can be displayed through lightbox.

It has been quite a while since I last blogged, due to many unforeseen events, but now I am glad to say that everything is almost on track again. I have also managed to make some free time for myself and what better way to spend it than learning new stuff.

In an older blog post I wrote about how Plans are made to be broken by the swine flu, and I had to cancel my flight to Palermo. But when I make up my mind about something, it is very difficult to convince me otherwise, so I booked a weekend in Palermo (two days are better than one) with my sister. I would like to thank my sister's boyfriend Marco and his family who gave us a very warm welcome and a place to stay in.