By andrew_hoffi on

Hi Guys I would like some advice with regard to an approach to my problem.

I'm using the bog standard book module, however I would like to allow multiple images to be attached to a page ideally as thumbnails which can be clicked on and open up in their own window/node.

However I also want to combine all images into a gallery along with images from other content types into a category based gallery.

Any suggestions?

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cog.rusty commented

Probably the most straightforward way is the image module.

http://drupal.org/project/image
http://drupal.org/project/img_assist

The image module creates a special "image node" for each image, which allows you to describe them and categorize them in galleries with taxonomy. An image_gallery module is included.

Additionally, with the help of the img_assist module you can insert them in the content. It supports derivative images (images resized to fit, thumbnails, and links to the full size image).

Another way is to try assemble a similar solution using the imagefield module (for example with http://drupal.org/project/simplegallery), but that takes some work.

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andrew_hoffi commented

The Simple Gallery looks straightforward to set-up, however I do not think it will allow me to add groups of images to specific nodes. Or am I wrong?

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cog.rusty commented

I am not sure if Simple Gallerie's image nodes can be used for inserting multiple images in a node, and it not really so straightforward. It requires several modules: imagefield, imagecache (which is rather heavy on memory usage), lightbox2, and these in turn require cck, filefield, and imageapi. I think it is mostly a solution for people who absolutely need to use image fields.

That is why my first suggestion was the image module.

Of course, using Simple Galleries you can always take the URLs of the images and use them in any content. On the other hand, if you use some solution with multiple imagefields on a node you lose the ability to tag each individual image with categories.

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andrew_hoffi commented

No your right I've been playing around today and was unable to add more than one image to the node. So simplegallery is not for me. I've installed the image module and am now playing with the idea of using the Taxonomy module for the galleries.

Thanks for your help...!

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Andrew
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