Yet another potentially extremely useful module I didn't even know existed!
Can I make suggestion? Can we have a simple, one-page listing of all Drupal modules, with appropriate tags, to allow for easy navigation and visualization? Users can sort the list as they want. With a few additional tags/facets (like core version supported, date, author, etc..), imagine how fast you can find what's available and start digging further.
Here is a test I quickly put together for a subset of modules: http://geo42.com/sites/drupal-modules.html
IMO, an automated list like this one is more helpful than any rating system (almost always fraught with problems) or the current d.o module lists (page-based, too much information, hard to quickly navigate.) Ratings systems, blog posts, projects like drupaltoughlove.com, usage statistics, etc..., are all great but only should be considered as part of the whole. For me, they simply help direct where to look deeper. A list like the above would make things simpler, faster.
We all know that finding modules to use with Drupal is a difficult task, one with real consequences. There are no easy answers yet. It's a task that turns some first time users away from Drupal and continues to frustrate some current Drupal practitioners. It's especially frustrating when trying to convince others in your organization (like the IT department) to go with Drupal; they start to delve into it and get lost in what can be done practically and securely via Drupal. It's a great development design but difficult in practice.
- John
************************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: john.callahan@udel.edu http://www.dgs.udel.edu **************************************************
Justin Gruenberg wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, John Callahan john.callahan@udel.edu wrote:
- batch upload, even if only one directory
http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload
That module provides a pretty nice way for you to upload images. Probably not 11k at a time nice, but it does work well and does allow you to fiddle with some attributes per image when you upload. It works with ImageField (CCK) and image.module.
If you go the image.module route, theres some other batch upload modules that can work with a directory on the server.
- reading EXIF/IPTC image metadata and mapping them to taxonomy terms
and/or CCK fields. 3) syncing attributes (i.e., edits to raw image EXIF/IPTC can update/reimport the node fields/tags and edits to node fields/tags can update the EXIF/IPTC metadata.)
I haven't done anything this complex with image galleries, but I can say... expect to do a good amount of fiddling and possibly writing some custom code to get what you want.
I'm using Gallery2 right now (http://gallery.menalto.com/, http://drupal.org/project/gallery) and it does some (item #1 and partially #2) of what I need. It even integrates nicely with Drupal for users and display of images and albums. However, I use Drupal for many other sites (and I'd like to use views, lightbox, tags, etc...) and wondering if I can bypass Gallery altogether. Any thoughts or experiences out there? Thanks.
I'd say if gallery2 works for you, stay with it. That's a package thats built for hosting images. If you're not afraid of getting your hands dirty, drupal might meet your needs closer. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]