Hi,
I'm quite new to Drupal and I would like to know the best way to integrate an image gallery as a new field of a custom content.
I have to add 150 entries of a custom content (title+description+2 image galleries). The image galleries should appear kind of integrated to the all node.
the image galleries will be an array of thumbnails (4x4). When the user clicks on an image, there should have a lightbox effect and 2 arrow navigations.
I have found tried so far :
- http://drupal.org/project/media_gallery : the problem is that it creates a gallery node and there's no light box effects / arrow navigation. (there is maybe something I didn't understand)
- http://drupal.org/project/galleryformatter : It doesn't display an array of thumbains
- http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2 : I have the lightbox effect and the navigation arrows. The problem is that it doesn't "help me" to create the array of thumbnails.
Have someboby found a way to do that ? I am not very experienced yet so please excuse me if my question is trivial.
Best Regards,
Vincent
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seems to me you could use an unlimited image field and set them in a field_group for each gallery.
I'd also consider http://drupal.org/project/colorbox instead of lightbox2
Is field_group able to create
Is field_group able to create the thumbnail array ? Is there any module who can do what I want with Drupal 6 ?
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what do you mean by "array" a php array? or a list of thumbnails? if the latter yes. as each image would be uploaded to the node, then you can set display of the image thumbnail. If you want the thumbnail to be square you must set up an image style. the idea of using field group is to group each "gallery" of images on the node, since you need more than one.
Thus one unlimited image field in one field group and another unlimited image field in another field group.
As far as D6 goes, no idea. Personally i wouldn't use it. When D8 is released (which ins't that far off now) D6 will be sunset and unsupported.