Photo Gallery in Drupal

When I started this blog post I was in the planning phases for a gallery in Drupal.  I currently have a gallery2 gallery that I've maintained for several years.  I've been thinking for some time that I would like to replace this software for many reasons (which I'll cover in some future post.)  One of my initial thoughts is that I would replace the gallery with some custom software written in Drupal.  Below is some of the brainstorming requirements I created.

This is an unfinished list for an unfinished project.

Ultimately, I abandoned the concept of constructing a gallery in Drupal.  I do not currently have the time for such an effort (I have too many other projects at the moment).  Moreover, I didn't want to end up having to support and maintain some complex custom software by myself.

For whatever it's worth, I am now considering migrating my gallery to Piwigo.  If/when I get to this, I'll write a post on my experience.

Basic Design

Concepts

Visibility of Albums

Visitors to http://site/ should not see any albums.

Need to hit http://site/<root album> to see the root album name

Sharing a single album by linking

Need to be able to give out a link to a specific album Getting a link to an album would prevent you from seeing parent albums.  Would a user going to just http://site/ be able to see all root albums and navigate from there?

If a sub-album was at http://site/<root album>/<sub-album> it would be simple to navigate up.

Creating albums by importing

This should work similar to existing Gallery2 system -- by loading pictures from local file system.
Would be nice to have drush extension so this could be executed from command line.

When importing images, the files should copied into the site file structure.

Content Types

Album

Collection of images and other albums.
There will be a root album (or several root albums?) that will contain all other 1st level albums.

Fields:

• name
• description
• directory name
• tagging taxonomy

Image

A single photograph

Fields:

• name
• description
• file reference
• fivestar
• tagging taxonomy
• photo/movie taxonomy

File System

The media should be maintained in a file system that mimics the structure of the gallery.

Album nodes should be reflected by directories. All 'Root' album nodes should fall under .../files/rootalbum.

 

Demo Sites / Ideas

Demo Gallery with images arrayed like spread cards
http://megadrupal.com/blog/creating-an-image-gallery-in-drupal-7
demo: http://demo.megadrupal.com/tutorial/gallery

 

Modules

Media Gallery - http://drupal.org/project/media_gallery
Uses - http://drupal.org/project/media
media module demo: http://dev.media-demo.gotpantheon.com/node?destination=node
modules that work with media: http://groups.drupal.org/node/168009

Gallery Formatter - http://drupal.org/project/galleryformatter
Alas - works with CCK Image Fields

Views Gallerific - http://drupal.org/project/views_galleriffic
Uses CCK Image fields to generate a JQuery based rotator-like gallery.
Has link to other slider modules comparison:
http://drupal.org/node/418616

Galleria - http://drupal.org/project/galleria
Has support for multiple nodes!

Node Gallery - http://drupal.org/project/node_gallery
A gallery using nodes to get photos

Content Access - http://drupal.org/project/content_access
Can use it to grant per-node access to image nodes

Video modules

http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo
http://drupal.org/project/videojs

Hierarchy Modules

To help support reordering Image nodes w/in a gallery or Album nodes w/in another Album.  I'm not sure if this is absolutely necessary.

Node Hierarchy - http://drupal.org/project/nodehierarchy
Offers a node hierarchy seutp

Draggable Views - http://drupal.org/project/draggableviews
Allows manual reordering of views - used on LJF.com

Comparison of Hierarchy modules
http://groups.drupal.org/node/23899

File Handling Modules

File (field) Paths - http://drupal.org/project/filefield_paths
Allows clean handling of paths

File Aliases - http://drupal.org/project/file_aliases
Get rid of "/sites/<sitename>/files/" for all file prefixes

 

Good Reading

http://drupalovereasy.com/ - Two videos - one on making a gallery w/ nodes.
http://drupalovereasy.com/drupal-7/tutorials/creating-photo-gallery-usin...

Websites to publicize

Port Gallery module to D7
http://drupal.org/node/1177732

Converting from Gallery to Drupal and CCK
http://drupal.org/node/803052

$200 bounty for converting from Gallery2 to Drupal and Image or CCK imagefield
drupal.org/node/975352

Migrating Away from Gallery2 - Getting the Images
http://galleryproject.org/node/85365

Integration with Gallery3
http://drupal.org/node/526452

How To Create a Image Gallery in Drupal 7
http://drupal.org/node/1029174