photogragher drupal site with thousands of images to sell

Question

I'm developing a site in drupal for a photographer that needs to put online thousands of images each weekend and then sell them through the site, with ubercart i think; He takes photos on a circuit to users that pay to race with their vehicles and very often they want to buy pictures of their journeys. I would NOT like to "import" each photo as a node, doing so i'll have thousands and thoudsands of nodes uselessly, instead i would like to show images in galleries (galleries for me will be nodes, or something similar) i found the gallery2 drupal integration module and i was thinking about using this to show galleries and let the users buy only "prints" of pictures, integrating it with ubercart system, so the only node i would like to manage are galleries and product nodes such as 10x15 print, 30x20 print and so on. Which are the modules to best solve this task ?

Answer 1

You can use a combination of CCK modules to create "galleries" of images, where the node is the gallery, and you can upload a theoretically infinitesimal amount of images to it.

These modules can work in conjunction to make that happen:

• http://drupal.org/project/cck
• http://drupal.org/project/filefield
• http://drupal.org/project/imagefield

As for resizing images imagecache will help you do that, however some more thought will be needed on how to deliver those "purchases" to your customers. That is potentially another question.

Answer 2

DragnDrop Uploads and Image_FUpload also work with imagefield, which may make image uploading easier for batch uploads:

• http://drupal.org/project/dragndrop_uploads
• http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload

As suggested by Amateur Barista, I think CCK is the way to go, I don't think the number of images will be a problem. Just make sure it's not running on a slow server.

Answer 3

A while back, I ended up using image-jupload, which is a java applet that lets you upload multiple images at once. There's a flash one that I could never get to work reliably.

I would create a gallery before uploading and then this makes nodes for each image.

My notes are a little old, but this may be the one: http://drupal.org/node/180616

Hope that helps.