Best Image Gallery Module

General discussion

hostile - November 18, 2005 - 04:26

Hi Everyone,

I'm just wondering what everyone prefers for managing image galleries:

1) Image Module
2) Gallery2
3) AcidFree

TIA.

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1.) Image Module vs. 2.) Gallery2

Conchero - November 18, 2005 - 04:58

I've spent a couple weeks comparing 1.) Image Module vs. 2.) Gallery2.

For me, the advantages of Image Module was it's ease of use, better integration, uptake of the standard Drupal themes, and the ability to use all the tagging/category/taxonomy features of Drupal.

For Gallery2 it was the Gallery Remote software, watermarking, more advanced features, and more flexibility.

I actually still haven't decided which I'll go with, but am leaning toward Gallery2, but this of course totally depends on your needs.

Thanks

hostile - November 18, 2005 - 07:51

Thanks for the reply.

I'm going to try AcidFree I think. I've hit a snag with the image.module where it wont let me upload a file larger than 2MB, even though I have the upload limit size set to "unlimited"...

The limit you hit is

LukeLast - November 18, 2005 - 10:51

The limit you hit is probably in your PHP settings and not with the module.

LukeLast nailed it. Google "php.ini max upload" (without the quotes) and you'll get about a bazillion hits. If you're lucky, you can append your webhost's name to that and someone will have posted the location of your php.ini file.

G2 remote

sym - November 18, 2005 - 10:46

You can use gallery remote with image gallery:

http://drupal.org/node/23645

use nodeimages module

gopisathya - April 23, 2009 - 08:03

Try node images module. Its good.
Try the demo at http://www.ohmybaby.in/photogallery

http://www.ohmybaby.in

Site broken

TrickerTreater - August 20, 2009 - 19:42

Not sure if you're still using it, but in my browser it's broken. Email me for a screen shot. I'm using OSX, Firefox 3.

Yes still using that

gopisathya - September 8, 2009 - 06:53

Still using but link is changes now.

http://www.ohmybaby.in/photo-gallery

Its a good module but drupal6 version does not have views integration or may be not working for me.

http://www.ohmybaby.in

image.module. It's basic

dman - April 23, 2009 - 08:18

image.module.
It's basic out-of-the-box, but there are many many extensions that make everything work cool.
it'll converge with an update path to imagefield soon enough. In the meantime, image.module+views = image_gallery so it's integrated.

Third-party things don't play close enough with the other CMS features to make me happy.

.dan.

image+views=gallery maybe not

kcloud - August 20, 2009 - 09:28

FYI, image.module+views = image_gallery in 5.x is, as far as I can tell, broken, and I can't see any evidence of intent to fix it.

http://drupal.org/node/207371

karthick.adodis: my

karthicktc - June 30, 2009 - 14:31

karthick.adodis:
my opinion you can this album photos.module
http://drupal.org/node/291979

Album photos is a picture album module, to provide Picture, multi-user album features module development objective is to provide a comprehensive picture on the album drupal solutions.

Thanks
karthick

Great start, but...

TrickerTreater - August 20, 2009 - 19:47

Great start. Allows multiple file uploads and all kinds of great stuff. It does have some problems:

Set thumbnail sizes (landscape only, will crop all others)
No control of album view, vert list only
Documentation: there basically is none. The YouTube video has no sound and the README file is not in english
No responses to questions in a very long time (Considered by many sites to be abandoned)
Tons of grammatical errors

digo.adodis Use this Acidfree

sdigo - July 1, 2009 - 12:52

digo.adodis

Use this Acidfree albums module

http://drupal.org/project/acidfree

A full-featured media management system for drupal. This makes it so you can easily manage your photos and videos with drupal. Acidfree albums and media items are drupal nodes to integrate better into your system.

Thanks
Digo

checked out the acidfree

jaydj - July 7, 2009 - 07:31

checked out the acidfree page, D6 has been in developmental phase since dec 2008. how is your experience so far in using it for your site as a full-fledged image gallery ?

Acidfree is broken in my

fluxrider - August 29, 2009 - 05:32

Acidfree is broken in my opinion and a very risky option to take. It was fabulous early on in the 4.7 days , but having lost thousands of pictures when it broke I've re thought my approach to gallerys in Drupal.
Gallery 2 has one huge advantage in these days of an evolving image handling landscape for drupal . Quite apart from the upload advantages it has , It stores user original pictures in user named albums/directories. That means all user pictures can be eventually brought into drupal when drupal image evolves, and its certainly come along way recently.
Obviously a drupal driven answer is the go as opposed to embedding an outside application like gallery2, if for no other reason than these are two heavy resource using apps.
The question for me , and I'd think many others is what to go with now while drupal evolves in this area. The answer , for me, is still gallery2 for users albums because its structure of albums means that in the future I can easily move user albums wholesale into a new system.

Given that Image.module iss heading for core in d7 WOOHOO , the future is looking good if somewhat uncertain as to nodes or not apprroach. The first step I think is to have a stable core image module upon which we can build .

So , thats my take on things as they stand now. For my sites I use this approach - I have gallery2 serving my user images/albums , and imce serving my site images and pictures in posts with fckeditor/imce.

I am learning right now though how to test patches so I can help out the developers of image module .

Look to the future is my advice when choosing a plan of attack for image handling...

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WorldFallz - August 29, 2009 - 13:45

I have to agree-- acidfree is a very poor choice at the moment.

imo the best method is described at http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach which can also be easily adapted for the image module, as opposed to imagefield, if you prefer.

And yes, image, imagecache, and imagefield will be in d7 so there will be an upgrade path.

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Good conversation there and I

fluxrider - September 1, 2009 - 10:14

Good conversation there and I am definetly playing with those things on my local server , but still. Not committing anything yet to a production site. Not untill d7 is up and about. The good news is I think that real headway is being made with image handling but I think its all still lots of projects coming from all directions . Image in core might just be the focus point to build around . Will be I think. This all reminds me of forums actually ..... and then along came Michelle and WACK , drupal had forums.
Just did my first patch actually so I might soon get into testing some image.module patches and get up to speed.