I'm new to Drupal, but not to web development. I'm in process of converting a client's dreamweaver-and-fireworks site to a drupal site. I have to keep as close as possible to his existing design, file naming conventions, et cetera.

Here's the original page I'm converting. Here's my development page.

I'm using image, image_gallery, image exact sizes, and img_assist. What I need to do is take out the normal image gallery code and create a way to put it in the left column (blocks, methinks). Can't find it. No worries, I'll search for key words in the php code.

Looking at the output source, I see 

<li style="height : 123px; width : 48px;">
<a href="/gallery101.html"><img src="http://quinton.jasonfriesen.ca/files/i/jk_g1_l_v4_0.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Bride and Child" title="Bride and Child"  class="image thumbnail" width="48" height="48" /></a><h3><a href="/gallery101.html">Bride and Child</a></h3><div class="author">Posted by: <a href="/user/2" title="View user profile.">jfriesen</a></div>
<div class="date">Tue, 2006-06-13 14:24</div>
</li>

Most of this I know will show up as variables in php, so I ignore them. What should be a hardcoded string in php would be:

<div class="author">Posted by: <a href="

So I fire up Dreamweaver and search my entire development site for that string. Nothing in 800+ files. Okay, try a shorter string.

Posted by:

Huh. Not found in 800+ files. So I look in the modules directory for image_gallery. Nothing! I look in the drupal admin section of my development site for the image_gallery module, there it is... but there is no image_gallery.module. Argh!

In image.module I see some interesting code:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_block.
 *
 * Offers 2 blocks: latest image and random image
 */

The attached code looks like it could be tweaked to create a new code block right there that will do what I need... but the real issue is being able to have these created-galleries appear in the left column instead of on this page... probably in a block.

So. Where is the php that creates these galleries, and how can I create a block for it instead?

Comments

tmj2k7’s picture

tmj2k7 commented

I looked at your stuff and it looks like you would need to write a custom block with hooks so that it can sense what gallery a given picture node is from and display the rest of the gallery images in the block. I don't see a way of doing it without writing custom code.

For starters: the function that creates the gallery layout is: function theme_image_gallery
which is called by function image_gallery_page
The first does the layout, the latter determines what images are in a given gallery.

I know there are other image management modules...you may want to check them out, Im only familiar with image and image_gallery.

Good luck.

jfriesen’s picture

jfriesen commented

Please forgive my ignorance; I'm not finding these codes in my files at all. Has this been deprecated from 4.7? Should I be finding this in image.module?

I found this article on Customising the image gallery node layout, but this, too, didn't seem to help...

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

If you have the most recent copy of the image module the function is theme_image_gallery and it is in the image_gallery.module file. If you have an earlier 4.7 of the module it should be in image.module.

jfriesen’s picture

jfriesen commented

Hey, there it is! I'll test this momentarily.

Thank you for your help!

drewish’s picture

drewish commented
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