CCK - Magazine article strategy?
I've been using Drupal for my site for the last year or so with nothing but the standard Story node and a 'type' field so I can make Views of particular things - there are only really 3 or 4 types of object on my site: blog post, software release, long-form article and gallery image.
I've been looking recently at a redesign, and as part of that, moving to a more structured architecture using CCK.
So I have an Article content type now, and it has a teaser, body, lead image (as imagefield, also used as a thumbnail in the teaser), and a multiple-select for additional images, also imagefield. Here's the part I am trying to understand:
How do I refer to those additional images in a painless way inside the body copy?
At the moment, I have a image.module gallery that I upload the images for an article to, and then use RepTags to insert {IMAGE:333} type tags in my body text. Is there a better/built-in way to do this kind of thing? When I search for things relating to CCK and newspapers or magazines, I get a lot of very-strict workflow related stuff. I'm a bit more sloppy, but I'd like to avoid having the HTML for my images in every article if I can. I'd also like to have a caption for each image in the article, but I can't see how to 'theme' types from CCK.
Am I going about this all wrong? should I be using node references and an extra node for each of the images? What does anyone else do?
Cheers,
Howie
It depends on your goal. If
It depends on your goal. If you create a CCK type as described then add content using your new content type they should just display. I would recommend using the image cache module as it gives you more control over the image size displayed.
Well, Yes and no. They *do*
Well, Yes and no.
They *do* display, but all piled up at the bottom. I can add a Content Template and move them around relative to the main content, but what I actually want is the extra images in content-selectable places in the article. Typically they are howtos, so I need the screenshots/diagrams to appear near the relevant text as floats. That position in specific to that article, which is why I was asking about things like reptags.
Already onto the imagecache module for my teaser thumbnails - very nice :-)
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I think you might want to
I think you might want to check out the image assist module.