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Project:
Every weekend the client (a photographer) takes a lot of photos (3000?) during racing and practicing sessions in a circuit because he's the official photographer of the structure. He want so sell photos to clients in this simple way: users browses photos in gallery where thery are divided by sessions, it chooses photos and the format he want (digital download, print small, medium or large) and place the order. The client receive the order and send the original hi-res photo by email (or a sharing tool) or prints it in the desired formats and sent them to user.

Problems:
A) a lot of photos but it's not necessary that every photo is a product (is it correct ?)
B) i would like to let the user upload the files (800x600?) via ftp in a folder for each session, and let drupal create a node for each session where all images are values for a prodivde cck image field (named gallery?) so i can browse or create views with sessions (nodes) and so on ?
C) i would like to create only a 4 products (digital download, print small, medium or large) and, some way, let the user choose how many products he wants but specify the photo for each "order item". I think it will be very painfull to import all the images as products every week, and i don't know how it's possibile.

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Re: photos' e-commerce

The media_mover module will probably do what you want.

It supports taking files uploaded to a ftp server and creating nodes with them and attaching the file as a cck filefield.

Use imageapi module to reduce the size of the image shown on the site and add maybe add a watermark.

As the full resolution images are on the server, for the digital purchases you could also setup a members area that allows the user to download the full resolution image after purchase - although that part might require a little custom development to link the images up to the ubercart file download module.

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Selling photos via Drupal site

Hi magnum, have you find a solution for this workflow? Solving similar problem now. Or anyone else have a solution for the above described tasks? Thanks in advance for the answer.

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Re: photos' e-commerce

i thought i would try to use some gallery software do display images, the client has got thousands of them, maybe using some integration modules to display them in someway defined "gallery type" nodes in drupal; so i only have nodes for galleries and not a node for each single file: why keep thousands of "unused" nodes?. Then i would like to create some 4 or 5 product nodes, the ones related to the formats the client prints and want to sell, 10x15, 20x30 etc, so i'll try to let user browser nodes of galleries, in which i can have hundreds of images but not nodes managed by drupal, that when a user choose a pic to print and buy, i'll be glad to be able to create a product order with the format the user want.. someone think it can be the right way ?