By webjourneyman on

I'm trying to go as far as I can using only the pre-installed modules for Drupal 5, filtered html and css.
Do I really have to use a 3rd party module for images?

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styro’s picture

styro commented

You can simply upload the image files to your server and reference them directly using <img> elements in your nodes. If your filtered HTML format doesn't allow <img> you can configure it to do so.

While you could upload the images through Drupal itself (that requires attaching them to nodes and will only work with public downloads), you could just upload them via FTP etc and stick them in a dedicated subdirectory.

The image modules are for those that want extra image handling features and integration/management etc of the images. If you don't want to install extra modules, you can still do it the manual way.

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webjourneyman’s picture

webjourneyman commented

That´s good to know. I'm assuming that not using 3rd party modules (or as few as possible) will make it easyer for me to update to newer versions of drupal in future. But then again perhaps it's not worth all the extra work of inserting html code for image placement, padding etc. I'll have to think about this more, thanks for your help.

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johnmcgeechan commented

Have to say, I see this as a HUGE drawback with Drupal. I appreciate the logic of having a core framework that allows developers to modify it to their own needs, but I see inserting different media types into posts, blogs etc as an absolute necessity. This definitely is a win to Joomla over drupal on this point (I am currently assessing both CMS's). Also, the best third party module out there seems to be Image Assist and I think it is clunky at best and again Joomla's out-of-the-box image into post processing, beats it hands down for me. This is not an anti Drupal rant, I can see merits of Drupal over Joomla, but for me not being able to add images into posts, stories etc is so basic that for many projects I simply would not contemplate Drupal over Joomla. Seems a shame.