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By Dr.Joe on
Does Drupal not come with a very basic gallery module?
Gallery2 looks terrific, but also somewhat intimidating. As it comes with its own themes and such, it appears that it is kind of separate from the main site. I have seen many Drupal installs with a basic gallery that inherits the theme of the main site and just seem wholly integrated.
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Use different modules together
I have two kinds of galleries on my site. The first is a photo showcase gallery built with Views, CCK, and ImageCache. Very simple - each photo is a separate node. It's fairly simple to theme. Here's the Views-powered gallery: http://johnwoltman.com/photography
The second kind uses the Lightbox, CCK, and Image FUpload (for mass uploading). I use this for things like pictures of birthday parties, trips, etc. The images are not individual nodes, but they can be captioned. The theming was mostly CSS. Here's an example of a Lightbox gallery: http://johnwoltman.com/node/149
I think the views type of
I think the views type of gallery is what I am after....do you just enable those 3 modules, or is there a lot more to it?
I want something where users can upload pictures and assign tags, and have it display automatically in the gallery, along with comments and such. views sounds like it meets my needs?
It 'll take some time with Views
Dr.Joe,
You are right about Gallery2 being a bit overdone for the task. However there are some other more simple modules for creating photogalleries ( I didnt test these so I can't help you with that ).
You can also do the task with Views indeed, but depending on what modules you allready have, you need to enable about a hand full of modules and you certainly need a guide because you will have to set up quite some stuff.
But then you will have have alot of control, and also, if you get the grip ( this will take a few hours of experimenting most of the times ) you will be able be creative with other content demands on your site.
I made a photogallery like you described with ( amongst other modules ) Views and ImageCache (the latter to create presets for thumbnails) by using a tutorial which unfortunately is in the Dutch language, hower there are lots of tuturials around for creating photogalleries with Views ( I ran up to a video tutorial just the other night but I unfortunately can't find it right now ).
Conclusion, if you are willing to take some time for it, just google something like Drupal Views photogallery or something the like.
I have to warn that Views can be intimidating at first too, this is a generic module with which you can create views in a form of presenting nodes and content in your own style ( for instance, assemble all the node types that contain a photo ), you can choose the content/fields ( of the node) which you want to display, sort it your own way, create links, make relations, put it in a block, a page etc. etc. You also need to create content types and add custom fields ( which is another thing and requires one or more modules on it's own ).