By phrozenflame on

Hi,

My current Static Gallery: http://jf-17.com/pictures.htm

[b]What needs to be done:[/b]

I want a module which can automatically generate gallery pages by picking up images from directories. Directories can be the categories, while images inside the directories can be the images for that category.

E.g. I have directories: web/drupal/images/jack and web/drupal/images/jill

and I have 50 pics of Jack inside jack folders and 50 Jill in jill folder.

What I want the module to do is: Create 2 categories in the gallery page, Jack and Jill and then inside Jack, render the thumbnails of those 50 pics of Jack automatically and create the gallery in that way.

What most of the modules require is that I upload each image one-by-one. The above is just an example, I have around 500 images which will goto different categories and uploading each one by one is going to be a v. frustating task, is there a module that can solve the problem.

Thank You

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Comments

teyser’s picture

teyser commented

Hi,
Try slideshowpro module in drupal..

Regards,
-Raj.

dman’s picture

dman commented

You have the choice between images as nodes (with all the goodness) or images as files dumped in a directory (with no goodness, but some ease of maintainence)
Your description is sounding like the images as nodes direction.

To do this totally automatically, you'd need some sort of folder-watcher that would add new ones when seen, and know what it had already done, and could delete dead files, and do it on cron or request. Not impossible, but not great either. And AFAIK not available. No captions and metadata either.

OR you can use image_import.module which will import a folder uploaded to your server into a named gallery any time you run it. This is probably what you need. I've used it to import and catalog thousands of files - with captions, in bulk.
I'd recommend you check out the pending (but not quite committed) patches that allow admin to define file and folder names on import. There's one for image_import itself, and one for image file management in general. Neither is fully released however AFAIK.

There are other third-party gallery type ones that run purely for folders - but I'm not sure which is best, and they are pretty separate from the Drupal approach, but cheap and cheerful.

I'm not sure about the imagefield way of doing this - there was work on an importer, not sure.

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