Image Gallery per User

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markwk's picture

I've started trying to figure out a way for users to create their own galleries. Basically, they need to be able to create an Album, then upload images. Seems simple enough task for Drupal, but I haven't really found anything that meets this need very easily. Lots of options with modules and config and views but not sure...

Any suggestion for Image Galleries per User?

Thanks

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btopro's picture

Might want to check out the Collaborative Learning Environment. It's entirely focused around image galleries so you'll probably be able to reverse engineer the image gallery concept from it. Everyone has multiple galleries, one per taxonomy term. They submit a gallery node to create the initial place to post their images to / provide details of what they'll be posting. Then node reference is used to attach all the image nodes to that gallery node. This also allows for commenting per gallery (cause of the node) as well as the individual images in the gallery.

http://drupal.psu.edu/content/134

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markwk's picture

Thanks, Brian. The issue I've run into is that like your approach 1.) uploading photos one by one is a bit of a pain, but at the same time 2.) uploading images in bulk using something like image_fupload runs into the problem of images being tied to a single node making individual nodes impossible to comment or rating as nodes; it's also annoying to have to style within a single node as opposed to a view of nodes.

What I want is to create a simple Gallery node that can add images in bulk as nodes.

Somewhat surprising this doesn't exist already as far as I can tell.

I believe both Image Gallery

azride's picture

I believe both Image Gallery and Node Gallery do want you are looking for. We use Image Gallery with Fupload and Node Gallery with Plupload and when uploading images in bulk, a separate node is being created for every image. I am not familiar with per-user image galleries, though.

Node gallery is looking

btopro's picture

Node gallery is looking sweet! much nicer then when I previously checked it out. Might need to base my stuff off of it. Only reason I picked my method using node ref is that in the future we'll support types other then just images like video and audio

@denisroy, thanks. Do you

markwk's picture

@denisroy, thanks. Do you mean Image Gallery within Image Module? I tried that one and I couldn't get it to work as I wanted. Node Gallery looks promising....

Yes, it's the gallery that

azride's picture

Yes, it's the gallery that comes with the image module. Works as described for us but it's been a while since we configured it so would have to dig a little deeper to see how we did it. Node gallery is a very nice module so give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

Node Gallery

brad.odonnell's picture

If your looking for something simple, just go with node gallery and just setup your permissions to allow your users to create the Gallery content type. Node gallery is a great package deal that is very easy to setup.

If you need to further implement some restrictions you can also use Node Limit http://drupal.org/project/node_limit. This limits the amount of nodes a user can create. This way you can limit them to create, say, one or two galleries. It's a very handy module.

Hope this helps.

Brad

I will back up the Node

TapSkill's picture

I will back up the Node Gallery recommendation.

The biggest flaw with Node Gallery is it is very ugly unless you change the module code or override the theme functions and it does not work well with Views. However, it is started to look a little easier as time goes by and new version are released, so be a little patient.

I use Node Gallery for this art portfolio: http://www.fantasyjam.net/art

Oh, yes, I custom-coded a good portion of it and used extensive theme-level function and Views overrides. In the past I made a very huge project of turning Node Gallery 1.x into a site-specific, multi-user gallery system, but the site was a failure and died, so I have nothing to show of that, but take my word for it, the galleries were very functional and looked great.

Thanks for the

markwk's picture

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm currently using Node Gallery and functionally, it's great! Theming and views integration are problematic, as you said.

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