Photo Publishing from iPhoto to Drupal

      by Wyatt Walter

This last week I’ve been working on a site for posting photos to share with family/friends/etc. I have my photos all organized nicely in iPhoto and thought iWeb would be a slick way to export those pictures right to my website (via an FTP server I’d setup, at least). (Why not to Flick/Facebook or other, you ask? I want to still “own” my pictures) I’ve used iWeb in the past to create little static sites and thought it would work wonderfully for this. After all, everything Apple makes “just works”, right? Turns out it’s not quite everything. Apparently, iWeb exported photo galleries are a no-show in Firefox (and Chrome) (fixes posted didn’t seem to work for me :( ). Would’ve been nice to know before I started, but I guess I know now.

Anyway, so I started trying to find a nice piece of software to publish my pictures fairly easily from iPhoto. Since I would rather have a CMS (but was willing to put up with the likes of iWeb for organization integration), I decided to take a look at a few open source products to see if one of them would fit the bill. I found an awesome combination that I thought was worth mentioning.

I found the iPhoto2Gallery plugin for iPhoto. The website says it works with iPhoto 08 but it seemed to work just fine for me on iPhoto 09. After I setup a Gallery2 site quick and the plugin didn’t seem to login. Then, when searching for a solution for that problem I hit another lucky break, I ran across this module for Drupal to emulate the Gallery API for publishing! Once the module is enabled, I tried it out and it seems to work flawlessly!

If you’re looking for a slick way to publish your photos from iPhoto to something that’s not Flickr or Facebook and are not wanting to pay for a .Mac account, check out this combination of software. It’s pretty slick!

Just as a note, the default Drupal gallery module is ‘ok’. It’s much better if you add the previous/next buttons :)

Filed under Uncategorized : Comments (1) : Apr 19th, 2010

  • http://www.tech-magneta.com/ Aniket- Freelance Web Designer

    This is really, getting me one step ahead.
    Actually, I got a requirement from a client.
    Who has this website built using iweb tools & he uses iPhoto.

    I am a drupal developer & he wants me to have his portfolio website be transformed into drupal site. Now, Im searching to how to go about it. This is the first info Im come accross, That has been really helpful. Thanks a lot.