By marylopez68 on

I am attempting to find an image module that allows us to upload photos easily with stories. Someone suggested using image assist. At first image assist would insert the inline info into the text box, but the photo would never appear, even though it said your image has been created. Now, nothing happens. When I attempt to upload the photo I get this - Properties: Change how the image is displayed - message and it does not upload the photo or do anything.

How do we get this to work?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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orthopoint’s picture

orthopoint commented

I have the same problem. I read a lot of stuff here, but it seems to be that this module is not working. I lost one day because of this problem...

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marylopez68 commented

This is interesting that it just doesn't seem to work. Maybe the person who told me to use it is using a different version? I know that I have actually seen it work on another site and I tried it out.

Any other option to get an image to post with a story, other than using just image module?

Thanks for you responses.

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siaiweb commented

And no solution for the moment...

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feeber commented

For me, it says the image has been created, but it doesn't show up in the post. It does, however, show up properly in a separate post.

Also, when it makes a new window in which to insert the image, the window is messed up. I've done all I can in Firefox to fix this, but no matter what I do, the top part of the box is not large enough to show the contents without scrolling. It's usable but a pain. I haven't tried in IE because I don't want to use IE.

It's really hard to insert images into posts in Drupal. Here's what I've found over the last week or so:

  • Windows Live Writer is pretty nice, and it allows you to size and position even multiple photos accurately. I really like the drag and drop feature--it even works from flickr. However, Live Writer doesn't support drupal taxonomies, so you must later edit the post in drupal and add the taxonomy.
  • Flickr's blogging tool is okay, but it doesn't seem to allow multiple images, and any photos you want to blog must be public. Can be a problem in some situations. It also does not support categories.
  • TinyMCE doesn't really give you much control. It just throws the photo in there. I have one of those setups where getting tinymce to function at all was a couple days work. Not worth it to me in the end.
  • flickr module installs random photos on my site. I've checked the syntax and checked my API keys and user id. It's entertaining to see what it'll come up with next, but not useful.
  • texy might be some help, but the documentation is difficult. If you don't know either html or czech, it's hard to understand what it can do.Once you know html cold, it seems like it'll cut down on a lot of the typing drudgery.

After spending vast amounts of time on trying to figure out an easy way to manage images and text, I've decided the only way to get what I want is to buckle down and learn html, css, and theming. You can make a strong argument that anyone who wants to use drupal to build a serious site should learn how it works at the template/css level anyway, and I'm okay with that. But I do worry about my users, whom I hope will contribute all kinds of content. There's just no good way for them to do it right now.

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sodafox commented

I do have to agree with you. I'm having a rough time too. I feel like I should have prgrammed it myself too.

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marylopez68 commented

Ok, we got it working. So, I don't know if y'all have done this but you need to go into input formats and under Filtered HTML there is silly little checkbox that says Inline images - Add images to your posts with img_assist.

Did you check that box. Also, I don't know if it matters or not but I also made it so that rich text can be enabled or disabled.

I hope this helps because it is now uploading the photo.

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orthopoint commented

Next year I will give image_assist a new trail. But now I use CCK, imagefield and imagecache. This three modules can put more than one Picture to the node and it is working for me on version 4.7.4 fine.

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saltspringer commented

Thank you so much for posting that; I was going crazy trying to figure out how to make img_assist work!

But now, how can I apply styles to the imported picture? I'd like to be able to change the colour of the border.

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sodafox commented

Hello,
I have that checked off and it doesn't help me with this issue.

I don't want to always have to upload images and content for the users of the website.

I can't seem to have the option to have the user browse to the file they want to upload. Impossible!

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dirkca commented

Thank you very much for posting the answer. I was going mad looking for it!!