drupal plus gallery2-world-domination.com

12 Sep 2005

drupal plus gallery2-world-domination.com

so, finally, after months and months - the gallery project has completed their site migration from it's former mish-mash of phpBB and postnuke to a much sleeker drupal site (see the full announcement for details).

the other very good news - that visitors of this site might appreciate - is that the new gallery2 drupal site uses the integration code that I wrote originally. This means that, yes, the code has actually been updated to work with the latest version of Gallery2 (RC2).

I also spent some time to fix up my gallery using this latest code. As you can see, "clean urls" are working again, and the default "matrix" theme for gallery blends in fairly well (with some minor modifications).

Big thanks to bharat (gallery's mastermind) for cleaning up some of my code to work with the latest G2! And a big congrats to both projects for continuing to produce quality code in spite of my involvement :)

posted 1:51pm:

tags:

Is it uploaded?

by rick_deckard (not verified)

September 14, 2005 - 12:10pm

Walkah,

The Drupal module page still shows an april date. Have you uploaded the updated code or are you waiting for the official G@ release?

Great work BTW

yes...

by walkah

September 14, 2005 - 6:52pm

it's currently checked into CVS HEAD ... now that g2 has been released, I'll backport for 4.6 (and ready the 4.7 version!)

A couple suggestions and things I did with Drupal and Gallery2

by ShavenYak (not verified)

September 26, 2005 - 3:59pm

Hey,
I'm using Drupal 4.6, Gallery2, and gallery2.module. Right now this is just a test site that I'm redesigning for my family. It's working pretty well, but I noticed a couple things:

The Gallery block is only displaying Random Image for me. If I try to change it in Admin, it doesn't stick. Also, it would be nice if the block could show multiple selections.
I got around problem 1 by making my own custom blocks (using the PHP code listed in G2's admin under Image Block) - one for random image, one for recent album. Then I discovered another little glitch - Drupal isn't linking to the G2 stylesheets unless it's showing a Gallery page. This breaks G2's image frames. Also, since the image and album titles are displayed as <h4> tags, they wind up too big.

I don't know if you can make the gallery module force all the Drupal pages to link to the G2 stylesheets. Maybe the correct solution is to tweak the Drupal theme files - that's what I did, but I have the luxury of only editing one theme, since I'm not allowing theme choices to users.
I'd love to hear any thoughts you might have....