By cburschka on

To wit: Is there any way to do this?

I am implementing a bulk upload feature, where a user should be able to create dozens of image nodes at once by uploading a zip archive with a text file full of meta data. I've gotten as far as parsing the file, populating the node form, calling it with drupal_execute...

But the imagefield refuses to accept a local file as an upload, no matter what I try. As the field is marked as required, I can't even work around it by manually adding the file to the database.

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You can use hook_form_alter() to remove the 'required' flag from the image field. Then your approach should work.

It may not apply directly, but I used a similar approach in the MySite module. To grab icons for representing RSS feeds, I grab the feed icon and save it to disk.

See http://therickards.com/api/function/mysite_type_feed_image/MySite.

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