By holeepassion on

I thought the whole idea about drupal is to make everything faster, quicker, user friendly. But my experience has given rise to frustration.

This is the story. I have been trying to get gallery using jcarousel, views module with rotating, slideshows etc. I have tried them all, but none but one rotating views worked. But after I tried to update the modules. Now the rotating one does not work any longer. How could such wonderful thing does not work in first or second try ???

I really do know what to think any longer ? I tried all gallery module, even those that say that it does not need much tweaking to get it to work straight away, but still it does not work. I tried the issue with jquery update. It is still not working ???

Now, I have my sites structured like so

earthsmate.com, has all the folders

earthsmate.com/portfolio domain, with its own installation and module folders

are these setups causing issues ???

Thanks in advance before I am giving up on drupal altogether. I do not think it has to be that hard. But my research has shown that there are a lot of frustrated people for various reasons. Arent module fully tested before giving an OK go and the documentation on how to install I found to be quite shocking to be honest.

Well, another thing is that people do just go past you by. Been waiting for responses also in related thread but no response so far for a couple of weeks.

Peace

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holeepassion commented

"This preview does just show the node titles of the nodes which will be shown in the slideshow"

I have extracted all the files of updated module but it seems that some modules could not be updated ???

Now, whenever I want to get the views module to work for gallery, the above message is what I got ????

what's causing this ?

Thanks

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Raf commented

What kind of gallery're you trying to make? Is it an image gallery, or a gallery of nodes? And what's the basic setup you want (quick, dirty ASCII sketch would work). Some kinds of galleries're easy to make, while some others can become quite tricky. Knowing what exactly your gallery'll be, should help us to help you (WOO! I can be a marketeer, me! "Help us to help you")

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holeepassion commented

The gallery I want is just a similar to http://forbesconrad.com/, cos I thought it would be just easy to copy the format and updates afterwards after I know more about how everything works.

I have managed to get the first page working, rotating before, but now it is not working as well after all the upgrades. The other pages I want like a jcarousel ? But it never ever worked for me. I tried using the views, even tried GalleryView, Galleria, Galleriffic.

You could probably see that now I go backword on my website, http://www.earthsmate.com/portfolio ??? I have got the error message instead now.

I think something is wrong with the views module. Something funny, I find is that I am updating all the modules for security in cpanel, by extracting all the .zip files and did the update.php. I checked the modules, they still said the modules are not updated as yet ? What the ?????

I have spent like two weeks also just to get the galleria style photo gallery working ? I tried even a more simple gallery via views like ddblock ? But it was still not working ? Is this an jquery issue. I have updated to the version jquery-1.3.2.js.

All, I want is just rotating slideshows on the front page and some kind of gallery of photos with easy navigation, as close to galleria as possible . Drupal 6.15.

I am not sure I should be updating the drupal to version 6.19 in the http://www.earthsmate.com/portfolio

From my readings somewhere, we are not supposed to have two drupal core in different websites (portfolio was created with own drupal installation in cpanel, but I cannot see the drupal directory within the portfolio directory).

So, my drupal modules files structures are

http://www.earthsmate.com/modules, with drupal directory

http://www.earthsmate.com/portfolio/modules, with no drupal directory

By the way, I updated earthsmate.com's drupal from version 5. Could this be the culprit too ? I just did the update after I extracted the drupal 6.19. I am wondering if I should be upgraded to 7 instead !

Hope I give you all the information you need to help me!

Thanks heaps for wanting to help !

Cheers
Peace

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Raf commented

Upgrading from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 is something I don't know much about (only worked in Drupal 6 and been taking peeks at Drupal 7), so can't help much on that. I do know that there're some differences in the core's API between 5 and 6, so that might be giving some problems. If you've written your own code for the site, I guess it might be best to check those functions with the API documentation to see if there're any differences. Also make sure each module you use, is DP6-compatible.

If I understand correctly, you want a sliding gallery (like that Forbesconrad one) and a list of thumbnails. Not sure if you want those thumbnails in a carousel or not.

Anyways, on a clean Drupal-6 site with no upgrading issues, Views Galleriffic should work (I've used it myself. You can see it here, on any game page)

  1. Basically, I created a content type with a multi-value image field (so you can keep adding images by clicking the "add" button).
     
  2. Then, I made a view of type Node. Style is Galleriffic Gallery. In the settings you get there, you can choose the autoplay option (which I turned off)
     
  3. Add the fields you want to the Fields part (top half, middle column, bottom block). You'll have to select the photo field you added to the content type twice. Once is for the big photo (Format: Screenshot URL). The second one is for the thumbnails (Format: Thumbnails URL). I think I defined "Screenshot" and "Thumbnails" in Imagecache first, and that those two come from there (would have to check that up. Been a while since I did this).
     
  4. To show only the photos from the node that's selected, set an argument as well (Node ID, node title, whatever you want. I assume you know how to use view arguments)
     
  5. Then, the last step, is setting "row style" to "Galleriffic Fields" and map "Slide field", "Thumbnail field", etc. to the fields you set earlier.
     
  6. Save the view, and that part should be done.

You now should have a view that'll show an auto-playing gallery with thumbnails. If you want the carousel effect on the thumbnails, that's done through theming (including the Jcarousel.js file and following the typical installation of a typical Jcarousel)

That's basically how to do it. It's easier than I made it sound -- but only once you know how to. Been bumping into this wall for about 2 months too before I figured this out.

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holeepassion commented

I would try your steps. Thanks for your monstrous effort. I have been busy doing other stuff so I gave up for awhile. I would try to get it to work again.

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