Posted by therobyouknow on January 19, 2012 at 4:23pm
Does OpenPublish on Drupal 7 have the acquia media module - this module provides excellent photography gallery handling, including extremely easy to use uploading - multiple photos at a time.
If not, will it include it?
If not including it, then can I add it without incompatibility issues with OpenPublish image handling?
Does OpenPublish image/photo handling have better features than Acquia media module?
I think the acquia media module is excellent and would be inclined to think providing yet another image handling module would reinvent the wheel.
Posted in OpenPublish and Media groups.
Comments
This is probably a better
This is probably a better discussion to have in the Open Publish issue queue: http://drupal.org/project/issues/openpublish
Senior Drupal Developer for Lullabot | www.davereid.net | @davereid
In fact there's already an
In fact there's already an issue open for it: http://drupal.org/node/1402716
Senior Drupal Developer for Lullabot | www.davereid.net | @davereid
Thanks Dave...
Thanks - I'll follow the discussion there. I will see how much work has been done to use Media with OpenPublish Drupal 7 for uploading photos and see how well the uploaded photos can be used from within the specific OpenPublish functionality - any comments welcome.
To be completely honest, Image handling/uploading in OpenPublish Drupal 6 was very poor im my opinion. I say this because I have tried it: Only one image can be uploaded at a time and if you wanted to create a gallery you would have to go off and hunt for your uploaded images in the system (using something called like upload history/new content/activity or something like that). Clearly not ideal, very manual and repetitive, and not something expected of a distribution aimed at publishers who obviously deal with photographs. Disappointing.
By contrast, I have found the (acquia) Drupal 7 Media module to be the complete opposite - i.e. very good - just about as easy as uploading selected multiple photos in a batch as easy as it is in flickr or facebook, with progress meters and quite robust. My experience of using it is in DrupalGardens and also on an export of this onto my own hosting (because I found the DG theme and layout too restrictive and their hosting costs not suitable for me).
So my message to OpenPublish Drupal 7 developers is, at this crucial alpha stage of the project is: don't reinvent the wheel. Acquia Media module is good enough and your OpenPublish drupal 7 distribution should support that.
My advice for anyone wanting great photo/image management/uploading/handling would be to get a free DrupalGardens account and export the site for use on your own hosting as the initial basis. You can do anything you like with your export, it's just a drupal site (code, settings files, sql database) - no license restrictions. With this export you will get Drupal 7 Acquia Media module all set up properly for free - because downloading the module yourself and installing it requires a bit of tinkering it seems so take the shortcut.
I would like to have a go at merging my Drupal 7 site on my own hosting (based on an export of Drupal Gardens) with the OpenPublish Drupal 7 and see how I can get the excellent Acquia Media photo uploader I spoke of above working with OpenPublish. comments?
The name is Media module
Just because companies like Acquia supports it, it does not change its name after them...
Agree - and credit to: Acquia, Advomatic, and Palantir.net
Agree - the module is just called 'media'
http://drupal.org/project/media
"Credits
Acquia, Advomatic, and Palantir.net have sponsored significant work on this project. Thank you to them and to the countless individuals who have also contributed valuable time."
And what a great image handling module it is too.