Image galleries are driving me mad, mad I say!
Arrgh! Photo galleries in Drupal are a nightmare!
This is a n00b question, but I'm really not – I just can't get image galleries to work the way I want them to. CCK, great. E-commerce, piece of piss. Views, meh. Image galleries - err, hmm.
I'm looking a simple gallery module that makes it easy to add a bunch of image thumbnails to a post. It doesn't do anything fancy (stuff like Gallery2 is way too complicated for what I want).
The thumbnails link to a full size version when clicked on. Not the image node, or another thumbnail (I'm looking at you, Gallery module). These can then be happily loaded in a lightbox or something similar.
Ideally, the photos (full size and thumbnails) are pulled in from Flickr, with a nice easy browser to choose the pics and add them to a post. Flickr module doesn't have this as far as I can tell. Flicker module also links to the actual page in flickr, rather than just the image. I know this is possible because I've done it many times in Wordpress. (http://www.kevan.tv for example). Wordpress!
Does such a mythical beast exist? Am I searching in vain?
kthxbai
I finally gave up on image
I finally gave up on image galleries & ended up doing it all manually.
As I've tons of images to show I made a simple html template & try to keep the same filenames (eg - 01.jpg 01th.jpg) & give each gallery it's own folder, then just replace the path in a text editor. But as I like to have a wee bit of infos shown for the pics I end up having to enter it all in by hand.
But at least I end up with what I want - page of thumbs with a lightbox for full pics.
I suppose you could use Image & create galleries by the mass import function (you'll have to upload them all yourself, no flickr way I think) & configure Lightbox to treat Image thumbnails automatically, but the galleries made are not very configurable, in fact hardly a bean can be moved around.
The other solution is to take a radical step & make a few containers & place this inside each one 'Photos, what's the big deal anyway, go look out a window instead'.
list of 'gallery', 'lightbox' like modules in Drupal
Matt, the list below is all 'gallery', 'lightbox' like modules of Drupal
http://drupalmodules.com/module/couloir-slideshow
http://drupalmodules.com/module/cck-multimage
http://drupalmodules.com/module/gallerix
http://drupalmodules.com/module/craqbox
http://drupalmodules.com/module/greybox-redux
http://drupalmodules.com/module/jquery-lightbox
http://drupalmodules.com/module/lightbox-v2
http://drupalmodules.com/module/brilliant-gallery
hope it will help and one of them will be useful to build something you have on your WP site
hehe I am really curious how
hehe I am really curious how this turns out as I am looking for a similar sort of solution... but I have to say.. yours was a funny post. I'm glad it's not just me <-- this close --> to pulling my, nay, Drupal's hair out occasionally :P
-=- christopher
a magical script! :)
just run a batch script to whole Drupal directory to to change every 'drupal' word to 'wordpress' and this will take all your pain and worries, you will get best of the both worlds. imperfect world, not much of fairness :)
Thanks everyone...
...for your help and comments. I'm really glad it's not just me whose been having these problems. I really did think I was going a bit crazy – sleepless nights, hair loss, talking to myself (and my invisible friend, Bob), the lot. Funny, how these things get to you.
ica, thanks for those links, I'm going to check them out properly and see what works. So far Brilliant Gallery looks pretty promising - though as ever, I'm sure the devil is in the details.
I really think it's strange that Drupal doesn't have a good system for image galleries - it may just be me (it usually is), but I've found Drupal's image handling is a bit broken all round. It seems like a fairly basic requirement. Don't get me wrong, I love Drupal; over the last few months I've got to know it really quite well (possibly too well – my girlfriend is starting to complain), and I think it's fantastic - but still, basic stuff guys, c'm on.
If my coding skills extended anywhere beyond 'quite amazingly crap', I'd have a go at writing something that would do the trick myself – but, unfortunately, they don't.
purrin, I'll update this thread to let you know how I'm getting on - maybe you or someone else might find it useful. Maybe you'll just find it strange. I won't mind. And if you come across something interesting in the mean time, please do tell.
Matt