Drupal 7 Image Gallery Recipes?

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Posted by mu5a5hi on February 15, 2012 at 1:58pm

Any of you have a good, easy way to create image galleries in D7? I'm trying to do something thats super-simple to use for my clients, have multiple galleries display on different pages, and have easy uploading of pictures. and 'imagecache'like on the fly resizing.

I could do this in D6 but this is my first site LEARNING D7

Thanks
Jeff

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D7 Gallery Solution

Posted by jsheffers on February 15, 2012 at 2:11pm
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Hey Jeff,

We've implemented a gallery in a few of our newer D7 sites and here is the formula below:

  1. Create a gallery content type.
  2. Create an image content type with a reference field that can reference a gallery.
  3. Create a view with an "Entity content" display with a relationship to the gallery content type and the NID as a contextual filter based on URL. Entity content settings should be: Entity Type: node, Bundles: Gallery, Arguments, id
  4. Add your image as a field using image styles to resize.
  5. Download this module for multiple image uploads: http://drupal.org/project/plup
  6. Download the Plupload library from http://www.plupload.com/
  7. You can also create a view display that brings in all of the gallery nodes and an image from each gallery.

Hopefully this helps

Shane Jeffers
www.3wavesmedia.com

I managed to do this in D6

Posted by mu5a5hi on February 22, 2012 at 4:00pm
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I managed to do this in D6 just a few days ago.. actually following a recipe I got for D7.. so now I am gonna go back and do it in D7 and see how it goes. Feeling much more confident now that I have it working in one of them,. Thanks!!

number (2)

Posted by jhun vert on April 9, 2012 at 1:48am
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I can't understand how to accomplish (2). It said to create an image content type with a reference field that can reference a gallery but the content type will only reference to the taxonomy terms. How to reference a content type to another content type? Is the galley and image content types you mentioned are similar to the content types when you created one at admin/structure/types/add?

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Imagecache is a core feature

Posted by studioaarrgh on February 15, 2012 at 2:20pm
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Imagecache is a core feature in D7, I'd use views either in grid mode or with slideshow and click-able thumbnails to format it. If you need the ability to batch upload that can get a little trickier. Look at the media gallery or the plupload integration module.

Though I still don't feel

Posted by studioaarrgh on February 15, 2012 at 2:23pm
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Though I still don't feel that D7 is stable enough for production use in any but the most basic sites. I know it's being used out there, but as little as three months ago I experimented with it and still found too many issues, particularly with views.

I'd recommend taking a second

Posted by jsheffers on February 15, 2012 at 2:26pm
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I'd recommend taking a second look at it. Views has finally released a stable version, and we have implemented it on 3-4 sites with great success.

Shane Jeffers
www.3wavesmedia.com

Tidewater/Hampton Roads, Virginia

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