Can Drupal run a photo album site
mealto - October 25, 2005 - 18:59
I am curious if Drupal can help me manage a new site. This is for family photos. Can drupal be of help here? If so, do I need to install other moduels or can this be done with the default setup?
Thanks!
Acidfree
Take a look at Acidfree
ok, I have downloaded Acid
ok, I have downloaded Acid Free and the File Manager Module. How do I install the File Manager module. The only instructions I could find in the unzippped files was a description under README. Can anyone point me to simple instructions on installing modules?
Sorry, still a newbiw here.
Yes, No.
Yes, look at this site and clic on photos (up right corner).
www.salsamontreal.com
Yes, you need other module. Ether, gallery2+gallery.module or acidfree or others. Look in the modules section.
Alexandre Racine
www.gardienvirtuel.com Sécurité informatique conformité, consultation et plus
Same comment as above, how
Same comment as above, how do I install modules? The zip context does not seem to provide enough details. For instance, if I do get the File Manager moduel from above installed, how do I do this next step for Acid Fre:
1. apply the filemanager-acidfree.patch patch to the filemanager source
Any details would be great!
btw, I have since uploaded
btw, I have since uploaded the File Manager module and enabled it but I see filemanager.php in the doc folder. WHat is this for?
I am still lost as to how to do this for acid free:
1. apply the filemanager-acidfree.patch patch to the filemanager source
file directories
Hi alexandreracine,
I'm trying to get acidfree to work but I'm getting error messages and my guess is becuase I don't have the file paths (destinations) set-up correctly...
in other words, where should the files be located when it uploads and where does it store the photos once uploaded?
thanks,
The simplest way to do this
The simplest way to do this is to use image module. Image module comes with a simple gallery integrated into it. It is not a sophisticated gallery, but may be a simpler starting point for you.
-sp
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ok, I have image installed
ok, I have image installed and it is working. Much better instructions for us newbiws with this modules.
The only limiting thing is that I have to upload one photo at a time and it is a separate post each time. Can anyone help me set up acid free, I am interested to use their album management system to run photos and video. Anyone answer my question:
1. apply the filemanager-acidfree.patch patch to the filemanager source
go here...
http://drupal.org/handbooks
look at this article "Installing new modules"
Everything is documented.
If you have other questions, just look around this book, there is a lot of newby answers in there.
Alexandre Racine
www.gardienvirtuel.com Sécurité informatique conformité, consultation et plus
Mass Uploader
There is a mass uploader module that works with the Images module.
Thanks, I will check out the
Thanks, I will check out the handbook.
As for the mass uploader, I can always FTP up but, I wanted the album to display all the photos on one page. Let's see if I can't get acidfree to work.
I am beginining to wonder if Drupal is meant only for techies to use.
Image module can display a
Image module can display a number of images on one page. However, you do not ftp up pictures to view them. This is a CMS. You can do a lot with it and grow your site. It just takes going through the intial steps and stuff starts clicking. :)
http://drupal.org/node/35172
-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
I was able to get the images
I was able to get the images module working but there is only 1 photo being uploaded to one post. ANd yes, all images can be displayed for 1 album but it is all in a thread. I was hoping I can find something that is more like an album and not like a blog album.
Album
I use Acidfree and it works fine for me.
These instructions are mainly for when you have access to the command line.
The first thing to do is to learn man.
If you don't know what man is type man man and press enter (return) on the command line.
This is taken from the Acidfree README file (usually it is namned README.txt).
* is where I put my comments that you may hopefully understand a little bit more what it is all about.
0. install the filemanager module from the drupal modules page and set it up (this includes creating the table, setting paths, creating directories, etc. on the admin/settings/filemanager page)
* There is a way how Drupal modules usually are installed but it feels a bit antique compared to eg. the Mambo way. Be aware that below is my way of doing it. Other people depending on their enviroment do it in other ways!
I use the command line.
Upload your modulename.tar.gz file to the Drupal modules directory. This can be done via ftp or get the file from Drupal modules download directly with fetch or wget.
fetch http://drupal.org/files/projects/modulename.tar.gz
gunzip modulename.tar.gz
tar xvf (-xvf on linux and solaris) modulename.tar
cd moduledirectory
less README
(skip to step 2 if you're installing the filemanager module)
1. apply the filemanager-acidfree.patch patch to the filemanager source
* copy filemanager-acidfree.patch to the filemanager directory, change to the filemanager directory and patch the filemanager.module file. The original file is kept with the name filemanager.module.orig
cp filemanager-acidfree.patch ../filemanager
cd ../filemanager
patch < filemanager-acidfree.patch
2. untar acidfree directory into your modules directory
* this has be done before the above step otherwise one cannot apply the patch! The author should change the order.
3. create the tables as shown in acidfree.mysql or acidfree.pgsql
* I use webmin (http://webmin.com) because I'm lazy.
Otherwise check out filemanager README.txt. It says how to create the tables from the command line (in my case I use MySQL).
mysql -u {userid} -p {drupaldatabase} < filemanager.mysql
which when entered on the commandline looks like this ("Enter password:" comes up when you press enter!)
mysql -u my_userid_for_MySQL -p the_name_of_the_drupal_database < filemanager.mysql
Enter password:
4. enable the acidfree module on the admin modules page
* Log in to your Drupal site as admin and click on Administer and then on modules.
Enable the module
Click on access control in the Administer menu and give yourself access.
Click on settings in the Administer menu and the modulename. Change your settings to whatever is valid for you.
5. go to http://yoursite.dom/acidfree/test (or http://yoursite.dom/?q=acidfree/test) to check your install and settings. Follow any instructions it offers.
6. create albums and content!!
* After that I created a menu item which I called Fotoalbum.
I'm not sure whether I clarified anything or not but I hope others in that case can correct me and also clarify what's confusing.
I like acidfree and it is perfectly fine for my needs. I can mass upload files (5 files at the most) or I can even point acidfree to a directory on my server where I've uploaded photos via eg. ftp and it will make those files part of the album.
If you want to check it out I've started using it at
http://dippe.info/new/?q=node/9
acidfree (haven't tried it)
Then you are back to acidfree (haven't tried it) or the gallery integration interface mdule (haven't tried it).
The album module is being depreciated in 4.7
Also, there is a dev working on a shazam gallery which I think will extend the base image module but I don't know where the status on it is as I haven't had time to try it.
-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
Re: acidfree (haven't tried it)
Not necessarily. I was a beginner with Drupal once (my status now is probably average Joe user/admin) and it took me three years (!) to really appreciate Drupal even though I swear at it at times even today.
My point is that there is probably no other (open source) CMS out there that would have survived for half as long as Drupal has so far, hadn't it been for the stubbornness of a lot of people who said "This looks great and I really badly want to learn how to use it even though it is so difficult to understand how to use it".
I'm not going to complain more about the shortcomings of Drupal or rather those things that complicates start using it like easy to understand documentation etc. because this is something I as well as everybody else here at drupal.org is guilty of not fixing.
My point is whether a README.txt should be written for the seasoned *NIX/WIN/OSX user or should we say "Hey, let's start to write in a way that we also attract novices" in order to get more people to try Drupal.
Consider how much time the module developers put into coding compared to writing his/her README.txt files. I think it is a bit unproportional as it is today.
Why not have a tab "Beginner" at the top and start filling that one with content that a Drupal beginner can understand. That was probably my message more than trying to get him/her switching again.
Since I'm in the process of setting up at least three sites using Drupal I shall also start to contribute to whatever I can from the experiences I gain doing that. This is the least I can do for all the competent people (and the community) who put so much work into creating this fantastic piece of software and all the marvelous modules.
Photo Site
If you are looking for a photo only package give Coppermine a try. http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php If you want a blog, forum and other possibilities, then stay with Drupal.
Here is a sample Coppermine site. If you like what you see, go with Coppermine. If not, then try Drupal or other album software that better fits your needs.
http://coppermine.alaskawebfactory.com/
Jim
Thanks for all the replies!
Thanks for all the replies! Don't get me wrong, I think Drupal is pretty powerful. I just think it might be over kill for me.
I just got SSH access but instead of figuring out the patch, my web host offers this for free: http://gallery.menalto.com/
Hope this can help someone out there who is looking for a photo album but who does not have time to learn coding to set it up.
Drupal and Gallery
Just wondering is there any way to do a gallery looking like what is in this site:
http://coppermine.alaskawebfactory.com/
and that include arranging photos in categories (or albums) and let the users rate the photo and comment on it.
please if someone out there in drupal knows the answer please explain how? and assume that not everyone out there is a programmer.
sorry folks but i am new comer to Drupal and i am trying to figure out how to do something like that (http://coppermine.alaskawebfactory.com/) for 3 weeks now and no way even to come closer and also i searched the Drupal web site but i found nothing . i am sure Drupal can do that but i guess Drupal site needs a Tutorials section at least to attract more users.
thanks
This is most definitely
This is most definitely doable with drupal. You'll want to look at the following modules:
For a video describing setting up galleries see: Creating maintainable image galleries. That will get you most of the way there.
You may want to look into the http://drupal.org/project/image module as a replacement for the imagefield/imagecache modules listed above. I prefer the full control imagefield/imagecache gives me so I don't use it, but many do.
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You might have already
You might have already changed over to what ever you're chosing to use, but I want to make a plug for the Acidfree module. I really like it, and the guy who wrote it is extremely helpful. If you post a support request (or issue) directly under the module, he'll help you very quickly.
Here's the site I've put together using Acidfree: www.herringimages.com
As for the filemanager patch, I install all my patches manually (I don't know how to run the program to do it). I opened the filemanager-acidfree patch and the filemanager.module file using wordpad. If you look at the patch file, you'll see all these +'s and -'s. The - (code) are lines you take out and the + (code) are lines to add. Before and after each block of code to be edited in or out, you'll see other lines of code. I do a search or skim the module file to be patched for those leading/following lines of code. I manually take out the - lines of code and insert the + lines of code. The patch file goes from top to bottom, so usually I'll type run "find" to look for some word or phrase, and just scroll down from there. Does that help?
I don't know how the gallery software works. I haven't really looked at it. Acidfree is really easy to modify, and again, the programer is very responsive and fast with any inquires. I bet, if you asked him, he'd send you a copy of the patched filemanager file.
I switched over to Gallery
I switched over to Gallery because it had some functionality Acidfree did not. I have to say, Gallery works beatifully and is easy to integrate with Drupal. I still think Acidfree is great software, and it still has some advantages over Gallery - like Taxonomy support.
Does Acidfree support
Does Acidfree support Taxonomy that is what I like? And what main features are difference between Acidfree and Gallery?
Nice site
Beautiful site by the way...not much different from the bluemarine theme. It's rare to see a site which uses a variant of a base theme that doesn't look like crap.
You've done an excellent job of integrating gallery into your site. Was all of that done with the gallery2 integration module? or did you have to do a lot of tweaking?
Thanks.
Help with Acidfree...
Hi, wow your site is fantastic. I really like the display of the images and I especially like the slideshow feature. I installed the Acidfree module from the main module area of drupal. I'm running 4.6.? Maybe 4.6.3.
Do I need the CVS version to get all this nice functionality (slideshow, number of images, etc.) or am I just missing something?
Also, do you think you could provide a very brief runthrough of how you got your galleries looking so nice? CSS, etc.
Thanks so much!
wow your image galleries look great, could you help me out.
Hi I looked at your site and it fantastic!
Could you give me a step by step (brief one) of how you got your galleries looking so nice? Please.
Did you use acidfree?
Thanks!
Looking back at all of this...
Looking back at all of this and I can say that even if gallery is pretty nice, it is pretty hard to install and make everything run smoothly.
So in the following month, I'll tests more galleries programs, and get back here.
Alexandre Racine
www.gardienvirtuel.com Sécurité informatique, conformité, consultation, etc
www.salsamontreal.com La référence salsa à Montréal