Posted by pkcho on June 1, 2009 at 11:52pm
I'm trying to set up a newspaper site that utilizes images well. I want to be able to upload images inline, but also use those same images elsewhere in galleries, etc...
Ideally, it would be best that the images are nodes.
There is a similar discussion on this that mentions using Node reference to accomplish this. Can someone walk me through how I can do this, if this is the best way to do this?
Also, I need the image to have a captions and photographer credits.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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This will get you started
http://drupal.org/project/filefield_insert
http://drupal.org/project/filefield_sources will extend filefield_insert in the short term; longer term I would recommend tracking the progress here: http://drupal.org/project/media
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Bill
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filefield insert
Thank you for the tip.
I've seen a demo of this recently...
Does this allow me to keep information tied to my images? (Captions, photographer's credits, taxonomy)
—Joe
Image and Image Assist
The file field insert module looks like a great evolution for the way image handling is going in Drupal. Part of that evolution seems to involve discussion of the future of the Image module, over ImageCache and CCK. I'd agree that the flexibility involved in the use of the latter makes it the more attractive option for the future, although the Image module still has some valuable uses, that I hope will eventually be incorporated.
My $0.02 here would be to suggest using the Image module, in combination with Image Assist. Image Assist can be integrated with a Wysiwig, to allow your content creators to create an image node, and then insert it into the node they are currently working on. As for your case, it allows the addition of a title and description, which will be inserted with the image in the text. And because the inserted images are full nodes, it allows you to assign to it anything you otherwise could to a node, like taxonomy and a body/description, and even author. These same nodes can of course be displayed in other presentations through use of the Views module, as well as the Image Gallery sub-module of the Image module.
All the best!
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