So, the last few days I have been working on a making a Drupal module.  It is my first major module creation (major meaning it does more then just has settings and show a page with the settings on it).  This module uses a lot of the hooks to integrate the Images module and Taxonomy.

Reason for making this project

This project was primarily created for my computer at home.  Right now I have a ton of images setup in a “gallery” sort of manner (folders with sub-folders with more sub-folders).  It can be difficult to locate a specific image without knowing where it is located.  So, I decided to make this module.

Project overview

Well, basically, this project lets you search for your images from a specified date and that contains specific tags.  Essentially, I am going to have 2 taxonomy vocabularies: People and Tags.  Every image will be tagged with the people in it along with other random “event” tags.  For example, I just went on a vacation in January.  I am going to tag the people who are in each photo, and I will tag “Vacation, Cruise, Caribbean” to the tags taxonomy.  The date automatically grabbed from the image EXIF data.

Conclusion

Ultimately, I wanted a module to allow me to search and index my photos based on the tags and date.  I am going to post it up under the projects page once I get my finishing touches done on it.