Blog: Flash

SlideShowPro Integration Module Makes Creating Slideshows Easy

It's been lying in our drawers for months, and I've finally had the chance to dust off and upload the SlideShowPro Integration module that Stefano Malozzi (stefano73) wrote and I wrote a filter for. SlideShowPro is one of the prettier and more flexible Flash slideshows out there. Alas it's not  free, but the $29 cost doesn't tear holes into your pockets either.

The really cool thing about SlideShowPro is that it can be fed by an XML description of albums and images, which paves the way to easy integration with Drupal. The SlideShowPro module allows you to build an XML description of a slideshow with views. You can then embed this slideshow with a simple tag like [ssp|path=path/to/slideshow].

Watch this screencast to see how it works:

The current version of the module can turn images and albums of the image module into SlideShowPro slideshows. It should be possible to turn other image resources - like CCK nodes with imagefield pictures - into slideshows too by overriding the theme_slideshowpro_feed() function.

Great work on the module Stefano!