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By eyal8r on
Hey guys-
I'm using d7.2. I have been searching and working on this all day- can't figure it out. So I'm posting here for some help...
I have a Node that I want the users to be able to upload images and/or video to. They can upload either or BOTH if needs be. They can upload a single image, multiple images, single or multiple videos (3rd party hosted- you tube, vimeo, etc), or a combination of images and video.
I'd like for it to be displayed in a nice looking format- kind of like gallery formatter does (can't seem to get that to work for me) with a larger image on top/middle, and thumbnails of the others on the side or bottom. When the user clicks on the larger image, it'll open in lightbox.
I need it to work with views, as I'll be attaching a voting module to it, as well as others that will implement with Views.
I am really stuck and frustrated on this one. There doesn't seem to be any solid modules that can handle this- unless I'm just not seeing it.
I sincerely appreciate any/all help!
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Files / Images are pretty simple-- it's built into core with the file module (images are essentially special file fields). Views already integrates with this as do most gallery type modules. I tend to use a simple grid view for galleries, views_slideshow for slideshows, and colorbox for lightbox type functionality.
The problem comes with video which can be uploaded via a standard filefield, no problem, but there's no built-in screencap functionality to use for thumbnails. You can configure ffmpeg to do this, but it's not trivial to setup.
I think for d7 the answer to this feature is going to lie with the media module-- though I haven't tried it yet myself.