[support] Drupal 7: Photo Gallery

[Shai Gluskin]

Andre,

Welcome to Drupal.

Try just using Views, Imagefield and Imagecache. In Drupal 7, Imagefield and Imagecache are part of core. Views you need to download.

Use the Grid style for your view display.

Use taxonomy (tags) to create the different galleries.

Use an exposed filter to create a drop-down listing the different galleries. After you have more experience with Views, and depending on your use-case, you'll likely want to replace the exposed filter with a Views argument.

Good luck and don't hesitate to write back with more questions

Shai

On Apr 24, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Andre Durudas <durudasa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello fellow Drupal-users,
> 
> I am looking for an easy way to create several photo galleries on my 
> Drupal 7 website. It looks like the "Image Gallery" module (part of the 
> "Image" module, http://drupal.org/project/image) won't be upgraded to 
> Drupal 7 (and might not be necessary??).
> 
> I tried the "Media" and "Media Gallery" modules but I did not get them 
> to work. First of all, I did not like that I had to install several 
> other modules (e.g. Styles, Multi-Forms...) of which I don't know much; 
> I am very new to Drupal and hence, I would like an easy solution. 
> Furthermore, I never got the images to display correctly, for example, 
> preview sizes instead of the full size image.
> 
> And I am more than ready to admit that this was due to the fact that I 
> don't know enough about Drupal yet but it turned out to be too 
> complicated for me to set up.
> 
> Anyway, are there any other modules out there for Drupal 7 that could 
> help me?
> 
> Is there actually a way to upload photos into my website without any 
> modules? Also, how would I set it up so that photos would go into my 
> private files directory?
> 
> Sorry for so many questions, but I think they are all related. I really 
> appreciate any help!
> 
> Thanks so much!
> Andre
> 
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