Port Gallery module to D7

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Gallery remote at this time does not work with gallery3, nor does gallery3 support embedding till 3.1
That makes a port of support for gallery2 with drupal7 desirable.

I have several websites I could move to drupal7 if a port for gallery2 was available. I expect that statement applies to many users of this module.

Is their technical reason the existing port would not do well on drupal7 or are those involved going for the whole enchilada and waiting for gallery3.1 to do a 7?

Perhaps if so the gallery project should fork?

I doubt that a single module supporting embedding of either G2 or G3 in Drupal 7 will be developed. From an end-user standpoint, and development standpoint, I would would agree that a fork would be necessary.

Someone will need to volunteer to make a sandbox the fork and invite maintainers.

Would be good if some of the contributors for the existing module blessed the fork and better supported in part.

Unfortunately I just used gallery and only have looked at it in depth once many years ago and have been lately working on commerce modules.

Who out there is familiar with the gallery2 module enough to go through code and be willing to be a maintainer?

Any takers?

I would like to help, but I am not familiar with Gallery, neither this module, I want to built a D7 site with gallery, so...

This module hasn't had any commits for over 2 years. It's safe to say it's close if not already abandoned. Thus rather than forking, if someone in this thread has the skillset required. It would likely be best to apply for maintainership in an effort to take the module over.

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G2 (or G3) port to D7 would be great

Okay, so Gallery 3 is a bust until at least 3.1 comes out... Which seems to be taking forever.

So what about Gallery 2?! Anything?! Just something that runs on Drupal 7!

We really need some sort of gallery solution for D7, and the others are not even close to what the old Gallery 2/D6 combo provided.

I'd be willing to provide a sandbox and put some sweat equity into a G2 or a G3 port to Drupal 7.

Gallery integration is the only thing keeping me from migrating my firm's site to Drupal 7, and I'd like to make that happen sooner rather than later. I have some PHP development experience but it was many years ago at this point so, while I could make crude changes, the best I can really commit to is assisting someone with more expertise than I have.

Serious photo gallery tools seem like an essential feature simply missing from Drupal 7. Gallery is the obvious solution. Let's make this happen.

Has anyone thought about converting from Gallery2 to Drupal? Please see this issue:
#803052: Converting from Gallery to Drupal and CCK

We may need to start a new/separate issue if anyone is interested.

I think this is dead in the water. I'll wait for 3.1 or go away to some other services out there...

Wow, this is sad. Not one comparable gallery for D7 in all this time. In fact, no way to do a pro-looking/oriented (e.g. EXIF, etc.) gallery that's user-submitted in D7 at all. I've tried a large variety of what's out there, and nothing compares to Gallery.

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Yep, sad..

I have advised to discontinue embedding gallery because of this and use the drupal construction kit and reload content, or if clever bulk import.

Unless they come out with 3.1 this year... its over for drupal.

Someone appears to be working on a D7 module for Gallery2. Stay tuned to the following link for updates:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:g2drupal

(It looks like the author is working on Joomla and Drupal versions concurrently. The Joomla version is now at a stable release status... so maybe the Drupal one isn't far behind).

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I've got a gallery in which people only need read access to. I've started playing with the REST API for Gallery3 to 'embed' the gallery within my drupal installation in a custom module. Seems like an ok approach (and pretty easy to implement), the only thing you have to watch out for is caching or else you'll be requesting images from the DB constantly using the API.

JGonzalez, what is the REST API? Is this a way of having no module at all and just embed Gallery3? Do you have a new module?

All : This project seems to be up now http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:g2drupal

Does someone have the time to test that?

The REST API is here: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:API:REST

It's basically a bunch of services that let you interact with Gallery3 WITHOUT using the website as the front end. In my use case, I've got a gallery3 install that my photographers have access to only (on some subdomain).

On the public side, I'm using the REST API to display the galleries and images to users instead of using what the gallery3-powered website provides.

The downside to this is you are basically rebuilding the front-end using the API. It's actually pretty simple to get the basic gallery functionality up and running (a page with galleries that are links, and inside pages with images.)

If I have time, I'll try putting this method out in a sandbox drupal module