By RobertDrake on

I've been trying out different galleries and having a hard time finding a certain combination of features. I really like the power of brilliant gallery, but I need the ability to do multiple gallery pages and I'm seeing that capability with the brilliant gallery module. I've also worked with the Views with CCK method of galleries. That solved the multiple gallery issue, but I never figured out how to do bulk uploads.

Is there a module/workaround out there that can do multiple galleries, has a method of bulk upload (or something like brilliant gallery where you specify a folder/folders) and has similar thumbnailing/visual features?

Any help would be appreciated.
Robert Drake

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RobertDrake commented

This seems like this would be a commonplace functionality. Does the gallery2 module provide this?

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Fohsap commented

Yeah, but Gallery2 has errors, and its support team is locked up developing Gallery3 and reluctant to help fix the problems with Gallery2.

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Fohsap commented

Bulk upload and gallery2 also don't work together. It's failed every time I've tried.... There are a number of other problems. For example, if you write an external link to a page on your gallery, the user will have to browse to the top level of the gallery before actually seeing any image proofs.

A lot of people need galleries. Someone should really put some serious work/effort into it. Images should be stored in a non-web-accessible location. Multiple sites should contain multiple galleries which should contain multiple albums which should contain multiple items. Each should be from a single code base, and they should have protected image proofs throughout - non-right-click-able, undownloadable, uncapturable (by screen cap software), file->save webpage resistant image proofs. Cause there are a lot of people who are very concerned about having their images taken.

If we could just manage something that would link into Views and the CCK, drupalistas would be pretty much set up. They could do everything else they needed to from there. I'm not sure if refining results, live, would be possible with views. Maybe you would need panels? I really have never taken it that far. I just can't find a gallery worth having. Again, Gallery2's support is freeging horrible. They're unresponsive or half responsive - clarifying problems but never submitting solutions.... And they're kind of mean, too. And as for the standard methods of creating drupal galleries with CCK and Views, there's not enough protection to keep your images from being stolen, as far as I can tell.

I wish I knew how to create all this stuff. I'm kind of a newb with PHP. Maybe I will be making modules someday soon, and I'll be able to help.

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jcjohnson commented

I have been working on this for a little while, but here is how you can have multiple gallery functionality with BG using views, cck, and phptemplate:

1. Create a custom content type (CCK) and name it gallery.
2. Add a custom text field called folder name.
3. Upload your images to the correct directory (files/albums or whatever you like)
4. Create a gallery node based off the new content type you have created and give it the folder name of the newly added gallery located under your directory (no slashes if following example)
5. Create a node-gallery.tpl.php file and include the following code

<?php
	$BGTag = '[bg|'.$field_folder_name[0]['view'].']';
	print check_markup($BGTag);
?>

6. Go to create content and create the gallery node with the proper folder name of your gallery and the gallery should show up.
7. If you would like a menu consisting of your "galleries" just use views and filter by content type.

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sittard commented

To create a select list (or autocomplete widget) of allowed values for the CCK field use the following PHP code.

function ListDirs($dir,&$files){
    if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file != "Thumb.db") {
            if(is_dir($dir.$file)){
                $files[] = $dir.$file;
                ListDirs($dir.$file."/",$files);
            }
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
    } // End If
	return $files;
}

$files = array();
$files = ListDirs('sites/default/files/image_galleries/',$files);
asort($files);

return $files;

Changing 'sites/default/files/image_galleries/' to the name of your uploaded gallery folder.