Hi all, I'm the guy that wrote the image caption filter part of the module. I haven't done much with Drupal for ages but thought that it's about time I come back and fix up my part of this module.

Before starting, I had a look around and I see that there are now a number of other modules around that deal with images and captions. I would like to know whether any of them provide the same/better functionality than this module. I think it's better to unite efforts than to duplicate code, where the functionality is the same.

Here are some modules that I found:

http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_imageupload does a lot and looks like it provides captioning.

http://drupal.org/project/caption_filter is similar to this module's filter option but seems more relevant to non-wysiwyg use. Arguably the filter behaviour could be moved to that module. Not much action on that module though.

http://drupal.org/project/img_assist says that it supports captions.

Someone remarked he was going to create a captioning patch for this module http://drupal.org/project/insert but I don't think he's done it yet.

There might be more. Has anyone evaluated any of these or other modules and can anyone comment on where they acheive the same/different things to the image_caption module?

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callison commented

My initial thoughts are that no other module really focuses on captioning (except for caption_filter, as you mentioned). Wysiwyg_upload is huge and I think a strength of this module (Image Caption) is that it is focused and specific on what it does. My vote would be to make this module better and improve on it's interaction with other modules rather than ditch it in favor of a larger one.

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FWE commented

I completely agree with callison. This module is FANTASTIC (a BIG Thank You!). Providing users the ability to easily add captions to images is a much needed feature - and so far I feel this module to be the easiest to implement. My typical end-users experience a big learning curve when using Drupal (many are not experienced with content editing - much less maintaining a CMS). Having the caption filter allows the use of a WYSIWYG editor whereby users can easily reference pre-defined classes and add unique titles - then the "magic" of this module takes care of the rest. Image-assist is great, however, for non-experienced users it too has a bit of a learning curve.

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fletchgqc commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

OK well in the meantime someone kindly wrote the D7 version of the filter part and it's available in the D7 release of the module. I agree, this module is quite nice really.