By chrischris on

Hello!

(I hope this is the correct forum.) I just installed a new Drupal, the 5 RC1. Now I would like to add some sort of image gallery, so users can add photos, view them, etc.

Which module or gallery do you suggest? (Especially in the face of 5.x compatibility.) Which one is the best, in your opinion?

Thanks a lot,

~chrischris

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rogue_77’s picture

rogue_77 commented

Well, it depends on how much of a photo gallery you plan on having and how fancy you want it.

"Image" is good and stable but I'd only suggest this one if you don't want many photos or one a week or so. I think it doesn't have prev or next buttons which really really sucks.

I have an art collection on my PC that I plan on putting into a gallery so I embed Gallery2 into my site which lets me add like 200 images in like 1 minute after I get it all setup. It's not a drupal module in itself but its probably the most advanced gallery you might find for it.

Downside to gallery2 is you'll need to theme it seperately since it runs outside the drupal environment.

Need any help, let me know.

suzan24k’s picture

suzan24k commented

There was 1 thing I didn't like about Gallery 2 that someone mentioned before. I think comments don't make it to recent posts.

In case you go with the image module there are a couple of ways to somewhat easily add next/prev.

See http://drupal.org/node/45050 for one approach. I ended up using the code suggested in http://drupal.org/node/98883.

I also found a topic on making slight changes to the image module layout, since I didn't like the html h3 tag used for thumbnail descriptions. It was too big and I wanted to change it. See http://drupal.org/node/41259 to override image.module layout without hacking image.module code.

Hope that might help with your decision.

Suzan

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andydev commented

I think AcidFree will suit your need.

I'm also still waiting for a stable version 5 of it (not many updates for over a month), but when it's ready, it should be very good.

Emiliano’s picture

Emiliano commented

Maybe you'll get confused because each user has its preferences, but I stick with the gallery that comes with Image module.

I know that Gallery2 is absolutely great and so is AcidFree, but for me Image module has a gallery that you can customize easily and don't need to be integrated like Gallery2.

That's my vote. ;-)

Emiliano.
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niklp commented

Assuming that having pagers will make any difference to your decision, you can have a look at this new v5 module: http://drupal.org/project/custom_pagers

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deathgod commented

I'm curious about acidfree, is it integrated with drupal like image.module or is it more towards the gallery2 scenario, I want something that integrates well because I like to play with a modules code to get it "*just*" right. Otherwise, I'll stick with image.
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andydev commented

Acidfree for version 5 will be fully Drupali ;)

It will use the Taxonomy, Image, Video, and Views modules.

Check http://drupal.org/project/acidfree

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deathgod commented

Thanks, I take it that it hasn't integrated with 4.7 yet. I'll use image for now and play around with acidfree when i upgrade to 5.0. I hope there is an porting script between the two or something like that.
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andydev commented

It works great on 4.7, so if you are using that, it will work for you.
It's not ready for 5 yet, but I hope soon it will.

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chrischris commented

Thank you very much for all the replies. It seems like a rather difficult choice ;-).

I have one more question: Which one of these actually let's me block individual users and roles from certain images or galleries or allow certain galleries?

andydev’s picture

andydev commented

On 4.7 with acidfree I did this (very easily, no php or anything similar):

1. Each user gets his own Album, only them can add photos and albums under it.
2. Some albums are public, everyone can add photos or albums.
3. Some albums are private, only admin can add photos and albums.

Very easy to do with AcidFree.

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chrischris commented

Thank you very much for your reply. But, is there any album that let's me allow/disallow certain users to view certain albums?

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dogsthatchasecars commented

FWIW, sounds like you need the Taxonomy Access Control Module, as it gives "access control for user roles based on taxonomy categories" http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access