Posted by Diegen on August 24, 2010 at 1:26pm
Ive been looking at Imgassist lately because FCK is old and CK while a great alternative does not provide a free imagebrowser like FCK did ?
Unfortunately that leaves document handling in the dust or does it ?
Can anyone recommend some great alternatives they have used on small - large sites with success ?
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http://drupal.org/project/cke
http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor works quite nicely with IMCE, I've recently integrated that into a project and was pleased with the result. I only needed it for image browsing/insertion, so I don't know of a filebrowser for any use of hand.
Dreamleaf Media
for drupal 7 is
for drupal 7 is http://drupal.org/project/media
for drupal 6 is http://drupal.org/project/nrembrowser
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
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I would love to use
I would love to use nrembrowser, but the problem is then you must do one of two things to really have a complete solution:
Have each user upload to a separate image node.
Put in a separate field with upload capability.
I'm sure the intent is for everyone to use the 1st option. If I could find something that would allow upload or reference all in one app, then that would be the best solution. http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_imagefield comes close since it will let you select current images uploaded into the system or upload new ones. Since it uses Views, you can also filter for a content type (if you only want users to have access to a certain kind of image and not all of them). I'd love to see the interface cleaned up, since it only provides for a small thumbnail.
IMCE and other solutions like it that basically blob images in with the HTML seem to be clunky since you have the user sizing images themselves through the options. I have yet to come upon a situation where the user didn't want one of two things. Thumbnail or an image that fits the size of the column. So, I fields work much better since they upload and it sizes appropriately for them. It takes several steps out that IMCE creates. That's the main reason why I'm trying to go down the imagefield (with upload) road and looking for a better way to reference images already in the system in one easy step. If a user uploads, then this solution should give them the option of creating an image node also (adding to the list of images that could be referenced for reuse).
You want what everyone wants.
You want what everyone wants. Fortunately, that's what already exists in d7 with Media. Unfortunately, there never will be a solution that does what you want in d6, simply because there is no unified file system in core for that version.
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
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I luv CK too. I never
I luv CK too. I never realised that IMCE could be integrated with it for documents and images (video, etc).
It's a pitty because I really like the style of http://drupal.org/project/img_assist and http://drupal.org/project/nrembrowser but Image assist does not handle documents. This could be done with the insert module but it just feels that it's not appropriate for handling anything more than 5 -10 documents embedded.