By PakWaan on

I am building a community photo album site. Drupal is much better at community sites than my other CMS solution, Joomla. However, from looking at the available photo gallery options (acidfree, gallery,etc) it doesn't appear that any of them are really good for a community site - they seem more suited for a gallery run by the site owner.

I want users to be able to upload to their own albums, allow users to vote on photos, have the best-rated photos promoted to the front page and allow users to send those photos as ecards.

Coopermine does this really well, and there is a module available to integrate it with Joomla. Coppermine also has support for bridging it to an existing site and using the user login information from the site's database- it is already integrated with Mambo, Joomla, phpBB, SMF, vBulletin and a host of others. But it doesn't appear that anyone has built a module to integrate it with Drupal.

Am I missing something? It seems so obvious to integrate the best community-based photo gallery with the best community-based CMS!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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phoebe-1 commented

I have not yet integrated Gallery with our new Drupal site, but from our use of Gallery alone, I'm pretty sure that it does most of what you're looking for.

Certainly, we have different users with their own galleries, uploading and editing them, and I know there are voting options too. I don't know about the e-cards though.

Then again, if a bridge with Coppermine is what you really want, then you could always look for a developer willing to build you one.

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dr00b commented

I have a HUGE family photo site that was built around Coppermine a couple of years back. Now that I have become a complete convert to Drupal and have been slowly porting 9 sites over, this is one last big thorn in my side (the lack of a Coppermine > Drupal bridge). I would really love to have Drupal wrapped around that gallery.

I am a Web/Graphics/Multimedia designer, not a programmer, so sadly this is beyond my scope or I would gladly do the work myself and share it with the masses. Really, I would. ;)

All hail *in advance* he that steps up to the plate for this worthy task!

~J