Can anybody recommend an image upload module for me?

Posted by kays on August 10, 2009 at 7:28am

I would like to make an image upload website with drupal in which anonymous users can upload jpg file freely.
I don't, however, want to force anonymous users to use img tag because tagging is difficult for beginners.
IMCE and Lightbox2 modules are good because they are easy to use, but they both need to use img tag to display an image.
Can anybody recommend a good module for me?

画像投稿のサイトを作りたいと思っています。
ユーザー登録しなくても投稿できるサイトです。
ただし初心者にタグは難しいのでユーザーにimgタグを使わせたくはありません。
IMCE や Lightbox2 は良いモジュールですが、imgタグを使うのでダメです。
何か良いモジュールのお勧めがあったら教えてください。

Comments

Have you considered the

Posted by Garrett Albright on August 10, 2009 at 5:10pm

Have you considered the ImageField CCK field combined with ImageCache? You can then place or style the CCK field as you would other CCK fields.

If you want your users to be able to arbitrarily place an image anywhere in the body of the node they create, I'm afraid they're going to have to use a tag of some sort… unless you're letting them use a WYSIWYG editor like FCKeditor.

The Boise Drupal Guy!

Dear Mr. Albright Your

Posted by kays on August 11, 2009 at 12:39am

Dear Mr. Albright

Your suggestion is just perfect.
I was looking in this section http://drupalmodules.com/category/Media but there are too many modules in there, and I was almost giving up.
I simply can't thank more.

This is also an interesting module

Posted by Antoine Lafontaine on August 11, 2009 at 1:58am

The following module can also make it quite easy for non technical users:

http://drupal.org/project/image_resize_filter

I recommend having a look at the presentation done by lullabot (http://www.lullabot.com/node/460/play) to see how it works and what can be done.

Node Gallery

Posted by Dokuro on August 11, 2009 at 4:42am

I like node gallery, it seems to have a good future to it.

http://drupal.org/project/node_gallery

Hi Antoine and Dokuro, thank

Posted by kays on August 12, 2009 at 12:47am

Hi Antoine and Dokuro, thank you for your suggestions.

I just learned comment is not node, and I can't attach an image in a comment.
I want to make a bbs of 2chan type with drupal, but now I know it's a bit difficult.
Can I see some cultural difference from this or is it just drupal?
(Japanese don't care about copyright and love anonymous image upload bbs)

But attaching files to

Posted by Garrett Albright on August 12, 2009 at 2:45am

But attaching files to comments is possible, just as this discussion group shows… Just not with CCK. (I'm not really sure how it's done here…)

It's possible to use nodes as comments, though. See: http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment

One of the reasons that comments are not already nodes is that loading nodes is very slow compared to comments - because nodes can do things like use CCK fields…

The Boise Drupal Guy!

Thank you again for your

Posted by kays on August 12, 2009 at 11:55am

Thank you again for your help.
You are very kind.

I found preview doesn't work on non-english sites, but there is a patch.
http://drupal.org/node/502298

You can use the following

Posted by aiwata55 on August 12, 2009 at 6:06am

You can use the following recipe to create a image gallery.
- CCK
- Node Reference
- FileField
- ImageField + ImageAPI + ImageCache
- Views
- Views Attach
- Node Reference URL

First, you create two content types. One is for a new thread, and the other for a response image (kind of comments).
Add ImageField to either one or both, if you want. Configure ImageCache to your need.
Add node reference field to the "response image" content type. Let the content type refer to the "thread" content type.

Node Reference URL works to prepopulate the node reference field based on the current node ID.

Create a view of "response image" content type of a given "thread" content type. Select "Node content" display to output. Attach the node content display to the "thread" content type.

If you configure everything properly, you would have a image BBS where users can leave comments with images.

Of course, you can use something like nodecomment as Garrett advises, but then all the comments will become nodes, I think. And this has a downside because node database is the database which Drupal system uses the most, and adding more records to the node database increases the data transfer of the database, which eventually will become a bottleneck of the whole system. However, by using this recipe, you can have a freedom to make comments for a given content type nodes while leaving comments for other content types as comments (as is now). Therefore you can minimize the increase of the data transfer of the node database to just the image BBS.

Hope this help.

Aki Iwata
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http://www.forest-and-trees.com/

Aki Iwata
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