By danny_joris on

...And if not, wouldn't that be awesome to have?

I just completed this Lullabot tutorial for an Image Gallery with cck, views attach, imageCache, etc. Deleting a gallery leaves the images and its nodes intact. Thats pretty inconsistent. If there would be a Gallery module that could operate as good as say Facebook Image Galleries, wouldn't that be great? I feel that there are alot of half sollutions out there, but not one ultimate Gallery. I find that weird because Drupal is a really strong and robust high-end application and the amount of active devellopers is incredible. Besides, Image Gallies seem one of the very basic needs in a website for me. Plus this would attract so many new people who want to use Drupal over Wordpress and Joomla.

I don't know enough of module building to do it myself. Is there a place on drupal.org where i can suggest modules?

Cheers,
Danny

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

There's work being done on this via the http://drupal.org/project/cck_referential_integrity module, however in the meantime you could probably set this up with the http://drupal.org/project/rules module.

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danny_joris commented

Cool, I look forward to cck_referential_integrity.
I don't really seem to be able to set this up with the rules module. No worries, I'll wait till cck_referential_integrity is ready to use.

Something else but is there a tutorial on how to build pagers to browse the single images in the lullabot gallery?

Thanks again, WorldFallz.

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WorldFallz commented

It can be done with rules but it would require the nodereferrer module as well as using custom php for the action-- though I'm not sure i would want to delete images associated with a gallery. I would use the referential integrity module to set the gallery nodereference to null so the pictures aren't lost and users could assign them to another gallery if desired (and maybe create a view of 'orphaned images' for easy reference). Probably the most user friendly way to handle it would be to prompt the user whether or not they wanted to delete the associated images and act accordingly. Again, this could be done but would require a bit of code in a little custom module.

As for pagers-- I'm not sure. Maybe checkout the http://drupal.org/project/custom_pagers module.

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jcmc commented

Please try to test this module here.
I think that many solutions can coexist, because the demand allows it.
My intention is to complete as posible this "some half sollutions" you mentioned (not all for the moment).

It will be never the ultimate Gallery but i try to solve the task from the viewpoint of a designer and not of a developer so that wenn you desire a simple gallery you don't need to install a lot of moduls for this.

  • My module create a gallery as node. You can assign these gallery functionality to others content types.
  • My module is multilingual (tested with i18n).
  • My module have no dependencies (i work now by the integration "optionally" from imagecache).
  • My module is easy to install, to configure and to use.
  • You can easily customize and adjust the gallery output to the corporate design your website.
  • You can choose betwen a numeric or a grafic pager.
  • Naturally if you delete a Gallery, it also erased the images belonging.

    • I think it is better you see self, my english is not good.
    example with theme newswire: http://jcmc.quiptime.com/gallery_assist
    example with theme garland (install theme). http://d6.puntolatinoclub.de
    - In this two cases i install the module and change in the css file the color, the border-corner and the background-image.

    Your words:
    "I find that weird because Drupal is a really strong and robust high-end application and the amount of active devellopers is incredible"

    Maybe I sound very bitter. The reason for this is the answer I got from Drupal:
    As I already said, there is already a module that has the same purpose; if it is found to be difficult to be used, that is not a reason to create a duplicate of an already existing module. The code should at least be better of the other module, to be accepted

    He speak from duplicate. If it is a duplicate, why the last sentence about the code. Why you not found before this modul that make the same as my. Why i have the same opinion as you about galleries. From a script with aproximated 1500 lines he make a critik about the use of arrays on my functions. PHPMYADMIN use only arrays. Views etc. Or he found a dsm() i forgot to comment.

    Ok i send now , excuse me for the very long and crying Letter, i hope you reed it and test the module.