Gallery3 sounds really interesting. Therefore I'm asking out of curiosity if there are any plans to integrate the new version into Drupal? If so, is there any way to provide help?

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lvthunder’s picture

G3 doesn't have the necessary API's yet to integrate it into anything. Last I heard we will have to wait for G3.1 to get that.

Jawi’s picture

Gallery3.0 is already at the Beta 2 state! a nice application for now. Hope indead that embedding in drupal wil be posible soon.
Yours,
Willem

STINGER_LP’s picture

definitely need a Gallery3 integration! but can anyone predict, will it be possible to integrate an existing gallery (like Gallery3 installed separately within Drupal installation directory or Gallery2 integrated into Drupal6) after corresponding module will be done?

lvthunder’s picture

No one is going to know. G3 doesn't have any integration code yet. The think the devs have better integration in mind for G3 then G2 but it won't be anytime soon. First they need to release G3, then write the integration code and release G3.1. Then someone has to write the integration module. If I had to guess I would say we are a year away from a G3 Drupal integration.

STINGER_LP’s picture

well, that's what i wanted to know... *went to look for other implementation of gallery*

ab977’s picture

Well thats a coincidence I was just looking to see if Gallery3 would work with Drupal 6.19. As it is just 1 year on from ivThunder's comment - Has anybody any news?

lvthunder’s picture

As far as I know the integration code that is needed is slated to be in Gallery 3.1. Since it took the Gallery team at least a year longer then they said it would when it started I wouldn't count on it this year.

Fohsap’s picture

Doesn't it seem bulky? Gallery has enough work to do on its own, outside of Drupal. It still doesn't have a lot of themes, and it's a gallery software, so that's unacceptable really. I guess that makes it like all the other gallery CMS's out there. And a lot of its functionality is faulty, depending on which browser you use. Like, it's okay in IE but not in FF, and then the other way around.... So confusing!

On the other hand, if you can look beyond that. You know, tell your users to use whichever browser works best for your theme..., ignore the need for themes, or whatever...., Gallery stands up pretty well on its own.

Having used gallery for a while, I know what users wants: it's all put together very nicely for the user experience, with all the necessary menu items screaming your name: "This is what we do!"; the user-friendly views blocks are just there; the neat slideshow stuff, but also user-friendly in the setup stage, which is most important; single- AND multi-layer galleries that make sense (note that Drupal is very poor with the latter); a great tagging and taxonomy system built in and different sort options.... Plus, it's got ecommerce, membership tools, etc., etc.

Really, if they could just get the damned bugs out and build more themes, I think that the question most art site webmasters would be asking wouldn't be "how do I embed Gallery" but "how do I move over to Gallery". Because, let's be honest..., isn't everyone who is trying to "embed" one CMS into another basically using the host as a theme engine, and the guest for its functionality?!

So..., how about a new thread:
"Is there fast way to move my theme from Drupal to Gallery?" or, "How do I get ALL of Gallery's functionality into Drupal and can we make it as user-friendly and trouble-free as Gallery has?"

lvthunder’s picture

G3's themeing system is very similar to Drupal's default themeing system so translating a theme should be fairly easy.

Also remember that G3 has yet to have a stable release. I believe they are really really close though. I do believe that there are only 2 people working on G3 at the moment so don't come down on them too hard. Personally I don't have much use for G3 since it doesn't have multi-site or integration support (both of which I use) so it's not very practical for me.

majortom’s picture

I love the gallery 2 integration. By the time Gallery 2 ships and is really stable it is likely to be 2 years late ("It's definitely not ready to run on your website yet but we've set the ambitious goal of having a 3.0 release by February 1, 2009 and are on track to meet that goal. Read on for details of why we're doing this and what you can expect.") and still lack some of the functions that made G2 so nice (Gallery Remote for example and the ability to integrate in other systems). Quite disappointing.

Has anyone found any other gallery software that:

1) Integrates well with Drupal
2) Supports something like Gallery Remote, preferably with support for iPhoto, Aperture and/or Lightroom

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laomiao’s picture

gallery 3 已经发布了,希望高手开发适用于 Drupal 7 的Module,感谢!

Fannon’s picture

Gallery 3 integration in Drupal would be really interesting!

Havent found one singe Gallery-Module for Drupal that really fit my needs.

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Spacio’s picture

I am interrested too for this integration !

miaoulafrite’s picture

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phaidon63’s picture

Any news about the Drupal integration of Gallery3?

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Fohsap’s picture

G3's themeing system (YUI) is actually a pain in the butt. So far, no, there isn't a good combination of the two.

alienseer23’s picture

i am very interested in this as well!

ClearXS’s picture

http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3.0.1_released

Important bugfix Jan 22nd; long way to go for the mentioned 3.1 and the Drupal integration, I suppose...

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Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » master
Assigned: Unassigned » mgranoski
Category: feature » support
Priority: Normal » Major
Status: Active » Needs review

Does anyone have a Drupal 7 Gallery 3 integration guide?

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crifi’s picture

Assigned: mgranoski » Unassigned
Category: support » feature
Priority: Major » Normal
Status: Needs review » Active

Sorry, there is currently no working gallery 3 module version, so integrating is not possible.
Please leave the status of the issue until there is a patch: http://drupal.org/node/156119
Thank you!

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When you want to view the full sized image in Gallery 3.01 the software resizes the image to fit the browser window. So, you really don't see the full sized image. Gallery deliberately changed the behavior from how it used to work in the 2.3 version. While some people are complaining I like the new behavior because it doesn't stretch or break the theme css.

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I'd happily donate to 'make it happen' as well.

skomorokh’s picture

Happened by the #gallery IRC channel for help dusting off a g3 install and asked about this. I imagine 3.1 is still the target, they didn't mention, but maybe the API is already there for some of what you want to do:

http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:API:REST

Some of the various linked dirs on github for API related stuff seem active and the channel was friendly. Very pitch-in-able I reckon.

I asked if there was anything for embedding an album with the interface and everything intact and got a promising reply of "not yet", but even without that it seems like a very nice API for tighter integration...

I tried it with wget on Gallery 3.0.1 and it seems to work okay with:

wget --header 'X-Gallery-Request-Method: get' --header 'X-Gallery-Request-Key: '

locual’s picture

Hi skomorokh, I'm kind of new with all this API usage. But I'm very into implementing gallery 3.0.1 to Drupal 7 so would you please expand in how to apply or use these API's to accomplish the integration.

Thank you.

skomorokh’s picture

Hi! Well, beyond the few minutes I spent investigating the API after I noticed it while troubleshooting my standalone gallery, I've never used it either.

The link describes it pretty well, I think: You send an HTTP GET or POST request with two headers. The response is a JSON object with various properties.

One of the headers is a key that provides authentication--each user has one and it's listed in the UI someplace convenientish too. Your module could perhaps provide a way to associate Drupal users with gallery keys, etc. The other is for the method as PUT/DELETE don't necessarily work out of the box on most webservers.

Skimmed the code examples there (they have several in php) and it is not immediately clear how to resolve the image data from the item response as the example takes a request object as a parameter so I'm not fully sure what it contains. Seems like it's largely similar but /rest/data instead of /rest/item.

https://github.com/gallery/gallery3/blob/master/modules/gallery/helpers/...

There are a few other projects that seem to have success using this API including an Android app and a Wordpress plugin. Their code may prove informative:

http://www.heiv.fr/projets/plugin-wordpress-gallery-3/
https://code.google.com/p/regalandroid/

All the best!

thumb’s picture

Hi all. I'm a member of the Gallery core team, primarily involved in UI efforts. The team met in April to discuss a roadmap and priorities for Gallery 3.1. Integration of G3 with other apps is on the list, but there isn't a defined timeline right now. The team has shrunk and the remaining members do what they can when they can.

@skomorokh has pointed out the foundation for integration, G3's REST API, and a few implementation examples. If someone has time to start work on this, draft a plan and start a discussion. Stop by Gallery's IRC channel and if it's quiet there, join the gallery-devel mailing list to start a discussion and ask questions.

Like I said, this will happen, but it'll happen quicker if folks here step up to get the ball rolling.

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Has anyone looked into importing gallery2 into the media gallery module for drupal 7?

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digitaldonkey’s picture

I'm looking for a way to migrate gallery2/wordpress (wpg2 plugin) somehow.

I wrot a experimental plugin to integrate gallery3 for wordpress using Rest api called wpg3.

Experimenting in wordpress with the rest-api I found out that at this time wou will get a lot of Objects in a hierarchical structure.
In order to get a Path like /gallery/Album1/Subalbum1/Item1.jpg you had to make at least 3 Rest requests

My goal: to keep the actual url Structure intact, led to unaceptable heavy caching and performance problems on larger galleries.
There was no way to pull the whole gallery structure in one request.

This Api is great to integrate with javascript based apps/Websites. But it is very hard to use it "the old way" - like gallery2 was integrating in wordpress and Drupal.

The issue is: integration is not an important point on the Gallery3 Roadmap and it will never be the same as it was with gallery2
"the features we picked we try to follow the 80/21 rule - so 20% of the features meet the needs of 80% needs of our users" said a g3 developer in a
interview on Sourceforge blog .

I still can't really see a good way to move on my gallery2 based sites.
When media and media-gallery module are more stable I think I will migrate ll to drupal7 and do it the drupal way :)

suneelkushwaha’s picture

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Anybody can provide me Galley 3 module for drupal 7 intigration..

Thanks in advance.