Posted by tecdragon on February 4, 2013 at 7:56pm
I am setting up a cms for my small company, I have it about where I want but I want people to be able to insert an image (other media would be awesome) without anything heavy. I have WYSIWYG with TinyMCE and a simple insert "media" would be awesome. Something that only shows files on the end users computer. They don't need to see the server or all the files of other users. Just a simple I want to stick my image on this page.
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I don't think it is quite clear what you want ...
Start with basics - media would have to be uploaded as a node.
This node thing is not easy to understand. Basically it is one data record which can be a lot of things.
This data can then turn up as a page and thus it seems to be the same as the "node". but it is not. Some nodes can form a page - but some pages may contain a combination of nodes - that is the case when you have text on a page and some images/media. The text is in one node - the images/media in others - one per image/media node.
So, what is it you want to create?
User create a node with text and then insert images/media into that text? - IMCE and other similar modules will do that for you and are working with WYSIWYG editors.
User just add images/media to a "story" they see on your site written by others? - That is a bit more complex. The usual options are adding comments - but those appear below your "story".
Remember that a CMS works in "blocks" - or better and to use the correct term "regions". The regions are defined in the theme. To keep things simple it is best to stick to the regions and let contents appear in a region.
User could upload an image/media and you add it to a gallery that scrolls up, down, across in a block in one of the regions close to the text.
The users will just click on a link that allows them to upload image/media and if you want you could add a field or two for references like caption, date, location, etc.
You might find that you could actually use taxonomy and with this you could allow someone to upload image/media related to a taxonomy term (tag). With taxonomy you could then let these image/media appear close to any "story" that also uses this or one of these terms (tags).
Within developing the concept further, my guess is, you will need the Views and prob. the Panels module.
That is a start ... - the user will only see the input of this file and may be -as mentioned- some other simple data input for referencing.
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