Dear All,
First of all, I am sorry for this long post. I hope you don't mind.
I am using Drupal 6.2 and I would like to build a simple image gallery for my twin little daughters’ website. Up to now I still could not work out the best way to implement that. So I would really appreciate any advice on this.
Maybe it was a bad idea to choose Drupal 6.2 instead of 5.7 as most of the image related modules are not mature enough. But what I would like to achieve is quite simple (I think):
1. One page of main gallery containing all the gallery categories with thumbnails and summary on each of those categories
2. Navigation on the Left Sidebar containing the 2 or 3 levels list of the gallery categories. For instance: Kindergarten --> Lunch Time, or Special Events --> Birthday --> 2005
3. Four latest uploaded pictures on the Left Sidebar
4. Images are stored in the folders with the same structure as the gallery categories. So all pictures about the Birthday in 2005 will be stored in gallery/special_events/birthday/2005
5. The layout of all level gallery categories is exactly the same as the main page, so contains only thumbnails but with more detail information in the body.
6. When the users click one of the picture thumbnails, they get the display of the original size of the picture
7. When the users click one of the picture title, they get the image node of the picture
I have tried in the last 3 days to implement this with Image and Lightbox2 modules. And yesterday I have also installed the View modules.
Menu module can do point 2 very well. Lightbox2 perfectly fulfils point 6. Except for point 7, the Image module seems to fail to fulfil the rest of the above requirements, especially point 4. I hope the View module would help, but I have not figured out how it works yet. Gallery bridge module is too much for me as I actually want to use as less modules as possible.
If I had to modify image gallery module, which module would be the best for the base of the modification?
Thank you very much in advance for your advice.
Kind regards,
Anto
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Really need advice in building simple image gallery
I guess I wrote a wrong subject so nobody gives advice until now.
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