Best Photo Album solution? (individual & community folders)
Cross_and_Flame - June 15, 2007 - 22:16
Desired Features:
- Community photo album that shows all the photos taken.
- Individual photo albums that can be set public/private/invitation-only
- photo comments
Looking through the options, here are my takes on modules:
- Acidfree, looks well-featured and slick, but doesn't allow commenting on each photo without a CCK solution.
- IMCE Gallery, with IMCE, doesn't seem as fully-featured.
- Photoblog, would be a workable solution with some hacking around.
- Google Picasa, uses a third-party system and is not integrated, but would be easier for starting it out given that users may already have Picasa albums.
Thoughts? What other solutions, or of these above, would you recommend?
Thanks in advance!
Well, I would say that you
Well, I would say that you should look at Gallery2. There is a module on the Drupal site to integrate G2 into Drupal; I've seen it in the modules list today. I've worked with G2 for just about ever since it came out and also played with the programming code. All I can say about G2 is that it is set up amazingly, really. Suppose it doesn't quite do everything you imagine the system should do then it is still a very good choice just because of the framework and/or other options.
I did a search about a while ago and decided to use acidfree
It was the best available at the time, as some of the more stable solutions were not ready for 5.x release.
But acidfree has it's own problems. it's not yet production ready, being updated very frequently. I still think it holds the best promise. It's frustrating that there's no good solution right now.
cross_and_flame, (and
cross_and_flame, (and everyone), which of these options allow for the second desired feature:
"- Individual photo albums that can be set public/private/invitation-only"
and how did you manage to implement that??
thanks
Drupal School
I'm in the same situation. Trying to create a photo gallery that allows users to have their own page that they can create albums in but with also the ability to categorize the images by location and the event it was taken at to be viewed in a main gallery.
Following the tutorial on drupal school has helped me a lot in understanding Drupal. I love the photo gallery - very simple and fast. Now I'm just trying to see how difficult (or even if it's possible) to set it up so that users have their own albums that they can upload to just using different modules (without actually getting in and PHP coding). It seems I can setup categories to sort images based on whatever I specify (location and event in my case), but I just have to figure out how to display it in a gallery type page.