A picture gallery similar to Gallery2 in drupal
Hi,
I am currently running a drupal site with the Gallery2 module and of course Gallery itself in the backend.
Users on my site can create their own album , and upload/delete their pictures in there.
Gallery2 is waaay to fully featured, and I'm slowly becoming rather tired of G2. It's so easy to get DB tables corrupted, and I find gallery rather slow too. (Plus a horde of other little issues I have)
Comes down to the fact that I don't need all that functionality.
I would like to find out if there's no basic way of doing this in Drupal itself with addon modules, instead of relying on a 3rd party application.
All I need would be:
* Ability for users to create an album under the root album, and upload pictures to that album
* Users should only have add/remove access to their own albums
* Users should be able to view all albums
* Obviously thumbnails should be created automagically.
* Multiple image uploads at once
* No need for an image title when uploading it.
* and maybe a few more, but i'll get to that later.
My feeling is that with modules like Views, CCK, Maybe OG, and Image this could be done (I might be completely wrong here), but I have no idea where to start and which modules to use.
Afterwards, modules like Lightbox2 could make it really pretty.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to achieve this with pure drupal? (i.e. no 3rd party apps)
I just want to do something basic at first that is similar to a basic gallery2 installation and then I'll move ahead with additional functionality.
Thanks!
jacauc
Hmm, sounds like you have
Hmm, sounds like you have the same needs as do I. I basically identified the problem to be that there is no gallery node type. I'm currently working on that and most functionality except a basic pretty look is working. There will be no single root album though, but rather each user can have his/her own root galleries. Then there will be a path like user/$uid/galleries to view that galleries as well as his root images.
I heavily use image.module for all image related stuff.
For upload I would like to implement the gallery protocol for upload (to use gallery's java upload applet or KDE digikam) as well as a jQuery upload form.
It should be ready by March and using some clever theming, some Javascript this can be used to have a basic gallery using Drupal's way.
I'll post a module project as soon as there's something working.
Crischan
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Just started playing around
Just started playing around with AcidFree, and it seems like a potential candidate, but it seems a bit clumsy.
..Also not updated fro D5.0 yet.
Update?
Any update on this??
need help?
Views?
How about making an addon on Views for gallery support for image nodes? (i assume such an addon doesnt exist already)
That way you can create your root gallery or even use free tagging to categorize your images.
I have simular needs. I used to use gallery2 for everything but in my opinion its too "clunky" (for the lack of a better word). I need something a little better integrated and faster.
I'm currently just using image nodes for my needs but no galleries, what so ever.
You can use views with
You can use views with taxonomy to create image galleries, image and views are now integrated. If you letpeople tag their images they can even create "virtual albums" the only thing I can't figure out is how to isolate terms that were used by a specific user, and then when you click on the term it shows only images tagged that term added by that user. (personal categories).
Acidfree will be ported to 5.0 but it needs testing, so check it out and report anything wrong with it in the issue queue!
Exactly that's the problem.
Exactly that's the problem. Taxonomy items are not bound to a specific user. I was thinking about that for quite a while and finally came to the conclusion that a gallery node type is needed to fulfill my needs. I would like to have the publishing status, ACL enhancability and so on also for my galleries, not only my images.
Will be a good module developing for D5 exercise as well...
Crischan
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You could check out the
You could check out the community tags modules that offer a theming function that let a site admin provide a block to show tags used only by a specific user... I think those links lead to content created by that user as well?
Sounds like it's still
Sounds like it's still rather tricky to get this done.
I'm scared of going for a "custom" node type, because if I use views, taxonomy, and tags, It could very easily become a big mess.
Am I asking too much?
Patchak, are you the maintainer of Acidfree? That seems like the best option, and I see there's a lot of new features (redevelopment) coming up for 5.0
Thanks!
jacauc
Hey there, No I'm not the
Hey there, No I'm not the maintainer, and yes it seems also the best option to me.
The ony thing left to do is to download acidfree and test it, as the maintainer needs some feedback before releasing the 5.0 version!
I also need such a solution
I tested og_galleries and this module seems not to work with my Drupal5 installation.
Can I test Acidfree with Drupal5 and when yes where to get it?
You can get the HEAD branch
You can get the HEAD branch from the acidfree project page,
patchak
What is ur problem with
What is ur problem with og_galleries?
Any progress since February?
I have the same requirements: no frills user galleries, without 3rd-party bridges.
Still same issue
I still ahve this same problem. I'm using gallery2 and can't get certain blocks to display on certain albums becasue gallery2's concepts of albums, etc, aren't recognized as drupal nodes.
Any updates, anyone?
Same question
I also have the same requirement. Problem now is, while AcidFree and OG Galleries both work for Drupal 4.x and 5.x, there's nothing yet for 6.x. My main requirement is not the excessiveness of Gallery2, but moreover that you require a dedicated server to support and install the required image components. Reseller accounts won't work with it.
So something similar is all that's really necessary. Allowing users to upload images, put a little description with them and then probably Views will be able to render them all into a gallery page and amalgamate them with Lightbox2 no problem. It's just how to manage that first part - or is there just something out there that can do it for Drupal 6.x such as AcidFree or OG Galleries?