This mini-HOWTO will guide you though the integration procedure for both Drupal and Gallery2, with assistance of FCKeditor and G2Image. If you hope to insert your photo album images into Drupal without a heavily embed style, this should be your cup of tea.
Why not integrate with Drupal's gallery.module?
The most simple answer should be: keep everything simple. I hope to keep my Drupal and Gallery2 installation isolated for a simpler management, as different system coming with different specific requirement. What I only hope to do is to reuse the existing resource coming from Gallery2, so user don't need to upload a single image twice.
Why not use Drupal's image.module + img_assist.module?
They are in different design so I use both solution. I use image.module + img_assist.module for tiny amount Drupal-only images, for fast layout design and so on, e.g. insert some image when writing a blog post as like as this mini-HOWTO. You won't hope to: 1. create a new album in Gallery2, 2. upload images and manage their title, 3. go back to Drupal and choice your image though FCKeditor, how fancy!
Demo Drupal and Gallery2 setup
In this HOWTO I will install Drupal and Gallery2 as path below:
www2:/# ls -la /var/www/
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 13 www-data www-data 4096 2009-11-07 12:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2009-05-29 09:13 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 10 2009-11-07 12:49 content -> drupal-6.x
drwxr-xr-x 9 www-data www-data 4096 2009-07-02 04:55 drupal-6.13
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 2009-11-07 12:13 drupal-6.14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 11 2009-10-27 14:40 drupal-6.x -> drupal-6.14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 11 2009-11-07 12:49 gallery -> gallery-2.x
drwxr-xr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 2009-11-06 16:01 gallery-2.3-developer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 21 2009-10-30 09:14 gallery-2.x -> gallery-2.3-developerWhy a lot of symlink? Because whenever upgrade is required, I just need to download the new version and relocate the symlink target. No path or URL will be changed.
So if my server with URL http://example.com/ and Apache DocumentRoot on /var/www, Drupal and Gallery2 will be accessible though:
http://example.com/content/
http://example.com/gallery/Moreover, Drupal's FCKeditor is already installed in:
/var/www/drupal-6.x/sites/all/modules/fckeditorWhere G2Image already installed in:
/var/www/drupal-6.x/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/plugins/g2image/Download G2Image here, and also read its general installation guideline.
G2Image Drupal-specific configuration
Edit the /var/www/drupal-6.x/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.config.js, and add the following line:
FCKConfig.Plugins.Add( 'g2image' ) ;I add the G2Image button to both DrupalFull and DrupalFiltered, so it should look like:
['Image','G2Image','Flash','Table','Rule','Smiley','SpecialChar','DrupalBreak'],Now edit the /var/www/drupal-6.x/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/plugins/g2image/config.php as below:
$g2ic_gallery2_path = "/var/www/gallery-2.x/";
$g2ic_embedded_mode = TRUE;
$g2ic_use_full_path = TRUE;
$g2ic_gallery2_uri = '/gallery/main.php';Ok that's all :D
Test the setup
Create a new node, activate the FCKeditor, and you should have something similar as below:
drupal_g2image-001.png
When click on the G2Image button, you should able to browse your album, select and insert your images:
drupal_g2image-002.png
Once insert your editor should look like:
drupal_g2image-003.png
Ok so now save the node and review it. Enjoy :D
Cool stuff Edison. You
Cool stuff Edison. You should show this at the next HKDUG meetup. Send me an email.
fckeditor
One additional issue: I found it necessary to configure fckeditor not to convert ampersands in the Gallery URLs into entities:
FCKConfig.ForceSimpleAmpersand = true ;
in fckeditor.config.js.
Any reference case that this
Any reference case that this bug will cause problem with?
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