By maxchock on

Hi all,

I'm building a community website (hopefully to match ning.com )using Drupal 6.6. I'm stuck into user photo gallery and group photo gallery this few weeks just to test out the best method.

honestly, I like the Gallery2 but I think is difficult to make that into Group photo gallery.. (Or have someone successfully done a user photo gallery & group photo gallery at their drupal site using Gallery2?? mind to share?)

So another way is to use CCK, Imagefield, ImageCache, Views and Taxonomy. i believe it can be very flexible and powerful in the coming future but for the moment i'm....
* unable to do multi file upload at the moment, have to select 1 by 1...
* unable to add a Tab "User Album" to "My Account" page...

I search around the google, and still have no luck on solving my headache. Any one here using Drupal 6 have successfully building a pretty photo gallery?

Thanks.

Max.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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sumitshekhawat7331’s picture

sumitshekhawat7331 commented

hi i have developed same kind of site you can visit this
http://217.199.170.4:8080/demo/gallery/
in this i have used " album photos " module for drupal 6 version.

Some others modules are also used.....

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maxchock commented

Hi mate,

Thanks for your reply. May I know which version of drupal 6 u are using? and can your "normal user" create album too?? I have test out the album photo last week, I like it very much at first (because of it multi upload), but I found no solution when the "Access Denied" message appear while "normal user" (authenticated user) trying to create an album.

sumitshekhawat7331’s picture

sumitshekhawat7331 commented

I used Drupal6.2 for this....and i have enabled that permission so that only Authenticated User can create album but you set it to Normal user also... its up to you.

And also there is an option to upload zip files.

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maxchock commented

Hi,

Thanks for your reply again. I have re-enable the album photo module and this time the normal user/authenticated user can create album, I think i must have miss out something previously.

Is album photo module able to create album for OG?

Thanks again.

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maxchock commented

oh ya. I found the solution my self. Album photo really look good.. I think i will really stick with it. Still have alot of thing to touch up though..

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dbeall commented

I was using album photos with great success, until the upgrade to D6.7 and then to D6.8. Now it seems to not work at all. So i am looking at just giving up and go with Gallery2 embedded, because i know it works. I really wish there was a good photo gallery for drupal. I have been fighting with this photo gallery issue for that last 4 months with no real answers.

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maxchock commented

I don't know what's the problem with yours, perhaps you can help to create Issue under the Album photo page. Here is my website with Album photo www.buddyjoy.com/photos

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dbeall commented

i finally figured it out.. Had to add the php snippet to uninstall the module, then reinstall it and it flys now...took me a long time to find the answer.

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dnewkerk commented

I'm working on assembling a gallery system using a variety of modules (CCK, Views, various field modules, lightbox, etc). You can see an earlier version of the gallery system here: http://www.aguaviva.com/media/photos

The new one I'm finishing up is in Drupal 6, and has a variety of improvements. It actually will support a full "media section" including galleries for both photos and videos. It also has a nice hover effect similar to this for showing the titles of the photos. I plan to prepare all the data, export all the content types, views, etc, provide the templates, and write a step by step procedure on how to import it into your own site. This implementation uses a Node Reference field to associate Photo nodes with Photo Album nodes (and Photo Album nodes display an embedded View), since it seems to offer to easiest to understand UI for end-users (I'm interested in expanding it to use taxonomy, but users always seem quite confused when I try to explain taxonomy to them (other than free tagging)... it would be great if there was a way to make a user-friendly gallery interface for interacting with the taxonomy the way Image module's gallery does). The cool thing about making the gallery this way is, though it's more work initially to set up, it will "always" work in future versions of Drupal, since it uses almost only CCK/Views and very well-established modules. It's also far easier to customize to work and look exactly the way you want it to compared to a single pre-made module's way.

Anyhow, when it's done I'll post it on my site.

-- David
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robclay commented

That looks really good (Your first version.) Have you thought of a way to do a slideshow? Also, what about subgalleries?

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justbradford commented

>>http://www.aguaviva.com/media/photos

Wow, beautiful design!

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Zoologico commented

How do you get that drop down to work and show up when viewing a photo album?

This one at the top of this gallery:

http://www.aguaviva.com/media/photos/first-power-weekend-january-2008

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strae commented

http://www.aguaviva.com/media/photos is amazing!
How did you build it?

You HAVE to assume your visitor is a maniac serial killer, out to destroy your application. And you have to prevent it.

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chakrax commented

+1

Very clean, very nice. Love the flash upload feature. Best photo gallery module for Drupal6.

ZenPhoto is the only other gallery I like, for sites not using Drupal.

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jsheffers commented

We put together an awesome photo gallery using the Views Gallery Module. We've also strengthened it by using contrib modules to allow for bulk image uploading, edit/delete buttons, Lightbox2 integration, and the use of Custom ImageCache Presets.

Demo: http://3wavesmedia.com/demo/photo-gallery

Tutorial: http://3wavesmedia.com/blog/create-awesome-photo-gallery-drupal-6

Hope this is helpful!