By Mirrorball on

I'm writing a new module, 'Image Set.' It works along with the image module and provides image sets similar to Flickr's. The advantage of this module over the image galleries that are provided by image is that you can alter the order of the images for display any way you like. According to what I've been reading here in the forums, people were searching for alternatives to image exactly because the display order couldn't be changed, so I'm writing a new module that allows just that. With image and image_set, you could create an image gallery very similar to Flickr's, because Drupal already provides free tagging.

But I need some help with the interface. Right now you can remove images from sets and change their order by clicking an 'elements' tab besides the usual 'view' and 'edit' tabs. On the 'elements' page, there is a list of thumbnails with a checkbox below each thumbnail that you can select to remove the image. You can also drag the thumbnails to change their order, this is done with Javascript (and the script.aculo.us library). But I don't know how a good interface for adding images would be like. I've been thinking about this for days and I finally decided to come here and ask for suggestions, if you would be so kind. :) So how would you like to add images to an image set? The image nodes have already been created using the image module.

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Mirrorball commented

Another advantage of this module is that image galleries are nodes, not taxonomy terms. Users can create an image set without having 'administer taxonomy' access.

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Emiliano commented

Mirrorball,

I'd like to send you a module I wrote very similar to yours (http://drupal.org/node/23765) so that you may have some ideas. It creates nodes for galleries too. And guess what? I just found out you're brazilian! :-) We can talk in Portuguese about all this! :-D

Please, contact me: http://drupal.org/user/16470/contact

Best regards,
Emiliano.
http://www.novayork.com

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jyoseph commented

My only advice would be, make it tie into the image and image_gallery modules. There are a lot of *decent* gallery solutions for drupal but not too many that play nicely with the core image gallery functionality in drupal (i.e - acidfree, g2 embedded, not that there is anything wrong with these two).

I feel that the more people like you, wishing to add nice features/enhancements to the already straight forward image and image_gallery modules, the better!

There's my 2 cents from a newbie, make it simple! :-)

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Mirrorball commented

It depends on the 'core' image module and doesn't interfere with image_gallery, so no problems here. Thanks for your advice!