The plan is to have 5 product description pages and a lightbox2 gallery associated with each.
The gallery (not ALL the images, just 3 from that gallery) is to sit below the description.
The project is that I'm making a site for my buddy's mobile dj package service. He offers 5 entertainment packages (at present) and wants pictures from gigs. I've already made a CCK type called 'packages'.
1.) tried image module which comes with image gallery, image attach, etc. the image gallery is very nice but the titles of all the pictures ultimately link back to the image node which i don't want. They should go to the product description if i had my way. As well as the nice little link in lightbox2 when it's activated.
2.) Or can I do something similar with imagecache and imagefield and views (or panels) and lightbox2?
3.) Or is there another helper module out there that might do what I want, for instance taxonomy image? Gallery? Tax'o'menu? Taxonomy redirect?
HELP.
Kinda bombarded by options, and no clue as to the best one.
Seems the obvious/quickest approach would be (1.) to make image module my "package" content type for let's say the "halloween" package. then I'd be happy as a clam when the images tagged with "halloween" link there. And then just add my function_phptemplate_variables to my theme's template and make a node-image-halloween.tpl.php or whatever to style.
Then I'd just ditch the packages and copy/paste the text over to new image content types and then i'm happy, the image.module's happy and then all i have to to is figure out how to theme this mess with the galleries where i want them.
Thanks for any help with this. Brain is at a standstill.
Imagecache and Imagefield i like, and would prefer to use actually because I kind of like the simplicity of imagefield and the preset creation with imagecache.
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little confusing
to clarify:
the main question is:
BEST WAY to get multiple images to link to a single product description, and product description ONLY?
and then have several product descrptions.
I also should have said what I ULTIMATELY want from my image gallery: Just a teaser block of images somewhere on the page with the product description, lightbox2 enabled, and a 'more images' link (if there are indeed more). But having said that, maybe this is something for a theming topic.
If it looks like it's going to be too much work for that, I'll probably end up settling for option 1- image.module and its gallery, and the standard 'gallery' page menu link.