By mdowsett on
What is the recommended way of adding an easy to use image gallery in Drupal 6?
I'd like a system that would be easy to work both ways:
1) a user to just focus on adding multiple images to a gallery...ie bulk uploading
2) a user to be able to add images to a blog post while they are blogging....but those images added go into a new or existing gallery as well as having access to existing image galleries so they can use existing images in their blog posts
I've used the Image module but it seems to be restrictive. I've used the Gallery module but I see that is no longer supported. I thought of using the Flickr module but I'd rather to keep it all within a Drupal site.
Just looking for suggestions...thx
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There really is not a module
There really is not a module that does these two things. Bulk loading is possible in a few, but may require FTP access for a large number of files.
If you use something like FCKeditor and IMCE to upload images into specific file directories for each user, those images could be loaded into an image gallery or other non-blog post, but I don't think any gallery module does so automatically...
Look for Views Gallery and Node Gallery...
Eric
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For galleries I use the method described at http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach and captured in the http://drupal.org/project/views_gallery module.
For bulk uploads I like http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload
For including those images in posts, I'm starting to really like the method described at http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode29
For reusing files/images, I like http://drupal.org/project/filefield_sources
With imagefield being in core for d7 and most of the methods I list above implemented via quicksketch's modules, I'm confident there will be a nice d7 upgrade path for them.