[support] Drupal 7: Photo Gallery

[Andre Durudas]

Hello Shai,

thanks for the suggestions. I had already considered Views but wanted to see
whether there are (easier??) alternatives. Anyway, I think I could get a
view to work. I know a little bit about Imagefield, but what is Imagecache?

Also, (and this might be a stupid question) but how do I get my photos into
Drupal? I would like to have them in my private files folder. I was thinking
to set up a new content type, Photo for example, with a title field, the
Imagefield, tags. Is this the only way? Am I missing something? Can I only
upload one photo at a time?

And one more question, when I set up a View like you suggested, I have a
gallery. Does it automatically display thumbnail (or smaller) images? And
when someone clicks on one image, does it open the original (or larger)
image? How do I go about displaying 'Next photo' and 'Previous photo' (and
'Back to gallery') buttons, within the photos in each gallery?

I hope this makes sense. Again, thanks a ton for your help!

Andre


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:

> 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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