Widgetkit Drupal alternative

Question

Is there module that will enable user to create galleries and than embed them into article content, and display them in lightbox fashion?

For example, I can create a gallery in some UI, configure it (set gallery type, transition effects etc...) and than get gallery ID which I can use to embed it in article with some shortcode:

Some text...
[image_gallery ID1]
Rest of the text
[image_gallery ID2]
...
...

I have searched through drupal repositories and on google and didn't find anything like it. So I'd like to know if someone knows better or do I have to implement that functionality from scratch?

Answer 1

Check out the Photowall project to see if it matches your requirements out of the box.

From the project page:

Provides a Photowall (like Google) format for displaying images, using the JQuery Photowall plugin.

There is a nice demo showing what it does at the JQuery Photowall link.

If it is not advanced enough for your tastes, I have another idea:

Since most of the power of the YooTheme Widgetkit for Joomla and Wordpress is provided by Javascript that runs in the browser and that should work just as well when it is launched from Drupal instead of Joomla/Wordpress, it should not be too hard to adapt the Drupal module Photowall to make use of the YooTheme Widgetkit Javascript plugin, instead of the JQuery Photowall Javascript plugin (but it will obviously require some custom development).