By oma-2 on

Hello,

I'm planning a Joomla 1.0 -> Drupal 6 migration and got a little bit confused on image handling.
My Joomla site uses images whithin articels, as clickable attachments to articles and within a special/separated gallary of all available images.
As far as I understand drupal, drupal has a thin core that can be extended by modules, but I've to be careful on choosing modules, since betting on the wrong horse will cause update issues and painful migrations later on.

Since images are a bread-and-butter issue for web cms'es I'd expect drupal's core to support basic image handling (ie inserting into stories, pages and some zoom-on-click functionality).
Is this correct? - Is this functionality somehow limited? Is there a best-practice for importing joomla content including images?
Using core for this task seems to be pretty obvious, since I won't run into module deprecation / update issues on vital content later on.
I hardly found any documentation on how drupal's core is handling images - using external modules seems to be a popular choice.

The next step is finding a replacement for Joomla's "Pony Gallery ML". Since "Pony Gallery ML" does more than simple image handling, there seems to be two options:

  • Using a drupal gallery module
  • Using a bridging module for another gallery (ie gallery2)

Anyway, the choosen module ought to be stable and actively developed. Import from "Pony Gallery ML" is nice but not vital.
What module would you recommend?

Thanks in advance,
Greetz
oma

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