Does Drupal not work well for adding a photo gallery to a smaller site?

I tested Gallery2 quite a while back, and it works very well, so long as you use a decent FTP client. Granted, it is large, but it's very easy to configure. Right now, I'm looking at rebuilding my site, which is all graphics, with Drupal.

Currently, my site is all static pages, and I use Front Page for most of the page editing (but the site uses no FP extensions, etc.). This does not work well for making the site bigger and keeping my links, search, and so on, all up to date. When I add a new section, I have to update about a thousand pages by hand (or by script, which can be messy). In the next year, I need to be able to double and triple the current size, but I hold back because of the current structure.

I'm looking to Drupal, or some form of PHP, to give me a better way to organize the contents of the site and make navigation & searching easier for visitors.

I would think Drupal would also work well for adding photo gallery functionality to smaller sites, if you're already using it.

There is a podcast that address this. You have two options: use CCK, image_cache, views, etc or use the image module (which includes image_gallery. image module is alpha though

There are two methods that come to mind to create galleries.

The first is outlined here Create an image gallery using CCK and ViewsCreate an image gallery using CCK and Views. While this is specific to Drupal 5, the technique is still valid in Drupal 6. I've searched for a more up-to-date but I can't seem to locate one today.

The second method, Photo galleries with Views Attach, is particularly appropriate where images will be primarily associated with one gallery and where you might want a way to precede the gallery with some text information. Of course, if you add a taxonomy class to these nodes you could generate additional galleries using a view that doesn't use Views Atttach.

Hope this helps,
Curt

@Curt -- Thanks for the pointers, I will try them out. I guess I was looking for a module to do the work, instead of a recipe like this, but that wouldn't be the CCK way, would it? :-)

@Splett -- Maybe I wasn't clear, but I am looking for an imagefield-based solution, meaning the views-CCK-imagefield-imagecache stack. I have used the image module for a year or more, and am interested in trying out the CCK technique instead. I started with the G&G podcast on the subject several weeks ago and have since been experimenting on a test server. After some fiddling I have managed to get the script which converts image module images to imagefield images to work. Now I have a bunch of imagefield nodes -- yay! -- and need to take the next step.

Thanks again.

The University of North Texas has produced some OUTSTANDING tutorials, they call them "How Tos," on various topics. There's one titled Create a Photo Gallery in Drupal.

You can find a list of available Drupal tutorials here.

Curt

Geeks and God's very own MFer put together the Views Rotator module that makes this way easy. We're using it for the header on the front page of ranchocommunity.org. In that example it is auto rotating, but you can set it to not auto rotate and have back and forward buttons.

I've managed to get imagefield and views working with GalleryView (http://spaceforaname.com/galleryview). You can see an example of this on the front page of temecula.ranchocommunity.org , which is in development right now. I've been planning on putting together a little screencast on how to make that happen, but Telestream's tech support needs to get ScreenFlow working for me first.

BTW- There's a screencast on using Views Rotator over at Mustard Seed Media. http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode12

Hey, nice job. I love the look of the ranchocommunity.org site. It all just hangs together the way it should. I will be looking for the screen cast on how to hook views up to galleryview. While we are waiting, can you at least share some pointers on how to do it?

The basic trick to getting the GalleryView to work is to re-theme the field and row outputs of your view so that instead of outputting the HTML to the screen, it only outputs the file name to a global variable. Then I used that global variable in the display block template. It's kind of a kludge, I know. It will make more sense when I can show you the whole thing.

Well, I finally got the tutorial finished. I hope this helps!

http://worshiptechie.com/2009/08/rebuilding-rancho...