By Regis St-Gelais on

Hi all fellow drupalers!

I have created an image gallery.
Then I create a few image nodes with 1 image in each.

Question #1: How do I create a page that shows all images in that gallery?
The image gallery module setup allows to specify the number of images par page, I guess it relates to what I am trying to do.
The related modules I have right now are:
image
image_attach
image_gallery
imce
img_assist
tinymce (wonderfull little tool by the way)

Question #2: Is there a way to import many images at once? Importing all images one by one is taking a ot of time. (googelling took me to image_import but its for version 4.6, I'm on version 4.7)

Thanks

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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Regis St-Gelais’s picture

Regis St-Gelais commented

Commenting my own post.

I found the "slideshow" module.
It allows to create slideshow nodes but lack the possibility of batch import.

Any other suggestions ?

Thanks

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Zed Pobre commented

In theory, the CVS version of image_import is working with 4.7. I couldn't get the official version to work at all with 4.6, and from the issues page it seems extremely buggy even for people that can get it working, so YMMV. I just upgraded to 4.7, so I will be trying it again eventually when I can allocate the time and blood pressure.

The image_pub module also allows for bulk import, but it's *also* buggy. I just tested it against 6 images, and only 4 of those actually ended up being imported, only 3 of those actually got imported with the image actually viewable. None of them imported the IPTC title or used the IPTC date. The one where I had an IPTC description didn't get uploaded at all, so I don't know if captions are actually working or not.

I'm getting strongly tempted to simply shell out the $150/year for a professional SmugMug account, as the the Drupal image support appears completely worthless for bulk galleries so far. If you have so few images (i.e. just for the occasional blog illustration) that you can just import them one at a time, the basic image module more or less works fine (though it took me a couple days of tinkering and a complete restore from backup of both the files table and the images directory to get it to work properly after the 4.6 -> 4.7 upgrade, as the upgrade somehow caused massive corruption, missing images, etc.). There doesn't appear to be a functional bulk importer at this time, though.

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patchak commented

I guess you could use acidfree which allows to post zipped directory files and 5 pics at a time. But the 4.7 version does not seem enterely integrated in the drupal way... I know the 5.0 version will be tho.

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patchak commented

I guess you could use acidfree which allows to post zipped directory files and 5 pics at a time. But the 4.7 version does not seem enterely integrated in the drupal way... I know the 5.0 version will be tho.