By ichiro on

it seems as if i cannot get an embedded gallery2 to NOT show two different random images.

see: http://www.math.fsu.edu/~trogers/images/random_images.jpg (44KB)

what are my other choices for incorporating photo albums into drupal 4.6.3?

thanks

./rant
i wish someone would either fix that or tell me HOW to do it. i do not think you can.
i know how much drupal is and is becoming and i may sound anal, but this is basic stuff.
/end_rant

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odysseus-1 commented

First up, the dual Random Image. It appears to me that these are two separate Random Image blocks. The one in the main content section of the page is clearly a part of the embedded Gallery2 stuff, so you need to look in the Gallery2 config to turn it off. The one in the right sidebar is obviously being generated by a Block that you've added to your Drupal layout and this can be set in the Administer/Block/Configure menu to only display on certain pages.

As for alternatives, known ones to me are:

AcidFree which is quite nice, has a lot of promise and is developing at breakneck speed, but is still non-standard in somes ways (I'm having issues with taxonomy and autopath that may lead me to abandon it, and it doesn't use the image node either).

Image node of course has very basic gallery handling, but at least it works properly with taxonomy and autopath.

Photo Album which uses the Image node and uses Folksonomy module for organisation. Haven't played much with it so can't comment, but it's next on my list to try.

Personally, I want to see a gallery module with lots of features (batch upload from a form, pretty borders, etc) based on the image node and with full integration to taxonomy and pathauto and all the other standard Drupal stuff like able to embed in other nodes, hence why as nice as Gallery2 is, I passed on it. May have to get the old text editor one day and do it myself...

John.

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ichiro commented

first, do you know where there is the documentation/instructions for embedding gallery2 into Drupal?

yes your observastion is correct on the reason there two random images. however, if you turn off the image block in gallery2 then drupal will not display a random image from gallery2.

it seems, and i'm no programmer, that the gallery2 module is tied to the gallery2 'image block' which displays random images, etc., in gallery2. turn that OFF and drupal will not display ANY.

if that's true i wish someone might rewrite that "dependency." :(

ichiro