Best image solution for images and news

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andribas's picture

Updated.

This post inspired by reply of http://groups.drupal.org/user/6482 in similar post.

So, I need "enterprise" solution and can't figure out the way to do.
Imagefield is not acceptable for that.
I want reuse my images.

Example:
I have article about local event. There was vip-person on this event and sponsors.
Sponsors images will appear only here in this article.
vip-person image i get from "vip-person" gallery
event images from "This event" gallery

What is the easiest way for editor to add article and images to drupal?

  1. Sponsors images must be hidden from users via gallery browse - these images has no associated gallery "name". Is this possible?
  2. If I load images in gallery - how to get them fast in article?

Is there any module to provide filter by date,author,gallery name for node reference?
Assume i have gallery with 500+ photos - is there any preview mode for adding node reference?
How can I upload multiple images in 1 submission? like http://www.scribd.com/doc/6563475/Ajax-Image-Gallery-Module-for-Drupal-6
I didn't find this module.

Is Node Gallery http://drupal.org/project/node_gallery usable for this purpose?

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Long term

andribas's picture

I have discovered foolowing issues

http://drupal.org/node/418156

"Long term decision" is what i need.
Image module provides the most reliable solution.
I can create galleries, upload multiple images via Images FUpload module http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload, then enter required info - author, image name, etc.
and use Node Reference Views Select module http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_views_select to node reference this images via modal and add required filters - select gallery, author, date, sort order and images would appear as thumbnails or teasers in dialog.

However this module is not available for drupal 6.x

I think many users of drupal like me can't get what is the roadmap for image haldling in drupal?
Someone says imagefield and imagecache going to be core modules in drupal-7 and Image module is an old school.
But imagefield doesn't provide ability to reuse images, flexibility to add comments, voting, taxonomy (galleries).

So I will wait for "Node Reference Views Select" ported to 6.x and make the rest of code.

We are moving to drupal and have 36 000+ images sorted in galleries and many images attached to news ( 150 000+ articles) and i see no alternative to use Image module.
Is there something i missed discovering image process in drupal?

From other side, if imagefield and the rest is the mainstream I can wait for this module "Node Reference Views Select" for a long time
Is this module just a CCK Widget Form?

I found similar projects available for 6.x branch:
nodereference_explorer - can't install it uses imagecache?
nodereference_views - provide views for select.

Can I configure view with filters for nodereference_views to make it work like "Node Reference Views Select"?
I need multiple select of nodes Image, with features: select gallery,author,time interval. And view teasers instead name of node.

Does somebody use this module?
If not, how do you process a bit of images?

Having exactly the same problem

konrad1811's picture

Most people talk about imagefield (which is useful only once -when uploading photos) and imagecache - which has nothing to this discussion but obviously is needed to rescale photos.

The problem is to upload many photos with extra data (metadata, captio, title, author credit) and obviously to be able to display these data (or extract them somehow from image metadata). And be able to use some photos many times (read them from server - NOT upload again like image fiield requires).

And in the end we need to display these photos in some nice way. Best if this was mistakeproof - so without any rich text editor - just a place for image set constantly. By now I only have read about coding... So actually in D6 we have to code some parts - if we know HOW and WHERE.

I hope someone will put a module that does this or I will have to stand by image_assist. Learning php-side of drupal is not my purpose in building cms-based site :-)

Hi

konrad1811's picture

Could You share Your experience and describe Your final solution?
I mean how to reuse images (as nodes) loaded to gallery (node_gallery?).
And how nicely position image in article to make it mistakeproof/ dependeing on editor (some people sugest to use node_reference_field but it just put a link as far as I know).

I hope You've found a way to do it simmilar to image assist but without let user choose size and position/alignment and with connection to galleries...

I would be thankfull for some details. I started with Drupal and CMS this summer, and by now I've almost finished basic needs - except nice images handling... I new this may be the worst part...

Is there anything new on this

derMatze's picture

Is there anything new on this one, maybe for D7?

Images not showing

lifeinthemix's picture

Hi.

as a newbie to openpublish and drupal you may consider me rather lacking in the development arena.

I cannot get any image to present itself in the article nor the teaser sent to the frontpage. having attempted some of the actions presented i moved to remove all images from the default folder and start again....no joy with this.

I was originally able to see the image in the articles, but after looking around the image crop, something went amiss.

any ideas would be fab.

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