By ZippySLC on

Hi all:

Please forgive the newbieness of this question. I'm moving from a Wordpress-hacked-into-a-CMS site to a Drupal powered one (actually, I went from Joomla > WP > Drupal) and I'm having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around some things.

I have a few stories that will need to have images inline with the text. I'm sure that I can just ftp the images to a directory on my server, add HTML code to display those images, and be fine with it. I, however, would like the ability to upload and insert images inline with my post. I've already loaded the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. I've loaded the image and image assist modules, as well as the lightbox module for eye candy.

Problem is, I can't see to figure out how to get it all to work. If I try to create a story, click on the "add image" link, I can upload a new image, but it creates it as a new node, not as an image inline with the story I am working on.

I'm sure there has to be some easier way. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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drupalnesia’s picture

drupalnesia commented

hi, since i came from joomla too then i can figure out your problem!

drupal has no default editor, that's why do a simple task like insert image sometimes painful for newbies. now the solution of your problem:
1. remove image and image assist modules
2. install IMCE module. Enable IMCE to use with TinyMCe.

ZippySLC’s picture

ZippySLC commented

Excellent. That seems to have allowed me to upload images natively within TinyMCE. Problem now is, when I go to view a story, I get all of the text and none of the images show up.

Could it be a permissions problem?

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ZippySLC commented

had to switch from "filtered html" to "full html"

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sepeck commented

Image handling, not Drupal's shining light. The previous post has some good ideas. A more rudimentary approach is listed here: http://drupal.org/node/176828

-Steven Peck
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arh1 commented

yep, unfortunately image handling in Drupal is a bit more difficult than it should be. (it's made trickier by trying to choose the "right" way that will be best supported by future Drupal development...)

there are many viable approaches -- you just need to pick the best one for your situation. i'd agree with Drupal-id.com that IMCE might be a good one for you. but assuming that rich text editing via TinyMCE is a requirement for you, note that Image + Image Assist can work in that scenario, too.

here's a short write-up i made recently, comparing 3 different approaches to inline images.