Out of curiosity, is there some future where these two modules will interact with each other? The imagepicker and filepicker modules look great and work fine, however I noticed that any media uploaded via this way are not seen by the media module. Since many have been touting the media module as the future of drupal I wonder if choosing this module over media might be a critical decision for the future.

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hutch commented

Imagepicker and Filepicker provide the facility for users to insert images and files into whatever content type they are enabled for, they are *not* content types in their own right, by design. There are already modules that can provide images and files as content types so there is no point in duplicating that functionality.
I've just had a look at the Media project page, very interesting, I might have a closer look once things stabilise.
Meanwhile, if you know how to media-enable a project I'd be happy to look over any patches you might post ;-)

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tstermitz
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As you say, MEDIA module already handles the uploading of a file/image, and associating it with a content type, but it does not have an easy method of inserting an image/file into the flow of the text. Apparently this functionality is outside the scope of the module, something that is asserted every time someone suggests an insert feature. The only way to insert images/files with MEDIA is via an additional module such as CKEDITOR, INSERT & WYSIWIG, or IMCE.

IMAGEPICKER has very convenient functionality for inserting into random html text without needing an additional editor.

If MEDIA takes over all uploading, image and file handling, it would be valuable if IMAGEPICKER would play nice with it.

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hutch commented

At the moment, Imagepicker works with one datasource, it's own tables with images stored in it's own file structure. I have no intention of abandoning that, it suits many users to have images available to them without them being published as content in their own right.

What might be possible is to extend Imagepicker to be able to manage other datasources, the Media module being one of them, Picasa another and so on. This would probably be in the form of submodules, that way I only need add some hooks to provide tabs to other datasources and perhaps some tweaks to allow things like browsing and listing to use the same output code.

If I do find the time to do this it will be in a new version, eg 7.x-2.x but it won't be this side of Christmas...

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sonicthoughts commented

thanks for this discussion. I was a bit confused by both modules which address different problems. Would really like ability to change image format, etc, during upload which imagepicker does nicely, but also need to attach it to a node, not the body.