By moomoofarm7 on

I'm building a video game site which will have screenshots and videos. When I drafted my site with the bitnami drupal stack, I used TinyMCE's image uploader and filebrowser: IMCE - which was convenient.

Now that my site is live, I want to make sure I'm using the best solution before I upload tons of pictures. I know most people use cck, is that a more efficient route? I am planning on having thousands of screenshots on my site - what is the best solution to use? What do you guys reccomend? Is there anything wrong/slower/less efficient about using IMCE versus the FileField or Image modules?

I don't want the image to display in a node - I want it in lightbox2 (which I've set up) or standard white browser background. Now if I stick with IMCE, how would I create thumbnail galleries out of the pictures? Would I simply manually create the gallery by making a table in TinyMCE and insert the thumbnails I want and link?

I've been playing around with ImageField. It seems to work pretty well, although I can't control the placement of the image as well as I can in TinyMCE. And lightbox2 is useless because it creates a link with that ugly file icon instead of just a text link or thumbnail. Another downside: you have to have a label. So basically it has to be Picture: (image)

My site: www.rapidfiregames.com

Thanks,
Chris

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nevets commented

I generally prefer using the file field for images, it allows for a wider array of ways to display the images. You get image cache which besides allowing to crop/scale the image allows for some other possibility. And there lightbox2, color box and other popups. In addition there are a number of image gallery modules that use images from a filefield.

As for videos, I prefer hosting them on YouTube so I pick a module that supports that. Videos suck both filespace and bandwidth.

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moomoofarm7 commented

The thing with using FileField that I'm confused about is this: say I'm creating a news article that has a picture along with it. If I upload the image to filefield wouldn't I be creating an unnecessary extra node for every image I upload? Is using the raw file on the server more efficient?

Also, I can add the FileField upload field to my News content type, but I can't really position the image where I want it like I can with IMCE and TinyMCE. Is there a way? How would you insert a thumbnail as a link instead of the little file field icon?

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nevets commented

Images added with filefield does not create extra nodes, the data is part of the node the filefield belongs to.

When answering I focused on the 'gallery' part, there are modules that allow the use of filefield and placing select images in the body. Not sure if there is one the works with tinyMCE or IMCE.

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alexbk66- commented

http://drupal.org/node/1098348