Import images from a zip archive

It's a great Idea...And I bet it would be widely used and a great part of the community.

This module scrached my itch to start-- I'd love to add more to it.

I have a couple of projects on my plate-- and I'm a pretty crappy JS coder-- So any contrib love I could get would be helpful.

There's a java applet for image module to achieve this. Perhaps this can be adjusted to work with imagefield import?

Yeah, I'm not too keen about getting a java applet mixed up in this. I know no java, and it just seems out of place to me.

The java applet is maintained independently. The module connects it with Drupal. It's this module that should be adjusted to work with imagefield import.

Other options:

Flash instead of Java: http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload
Or zip all the images and upload the zip-file: http://drupal.org/project/image_import_zip

the java applet is the best so far, imho adapting it to do imagefield (multiple on a single node would be nice) uploads would be the best solution, especially if you could upload to existing nodes. (because it just works, but it is not an official drupal module)
image_fupload is nice but d6 only and lacks widget for imagefield uploads (awaiting donation, http://drupal.org/node/353850 )
the zip method is a patch (tried but haven't got working)
there is also http://drupal.org/project/imagex (haven't tried)
and http://drupal.org/project/swfupload which is also awaiting a donation for cck field widget development. (pretty nice too -- really this is the most generic and should be part of drupal core, lets give up on this 10 year old web-uploading. then swfupload could handle feature requests like imagefield and client-side resizing/rotating, etc)
there is also http://drupal.org/project/photos (uses multi file attachments so galleries are single nodes, flash uploader -- in fact, this solution is basically what people are asking for, just not as imagefield, rather a filefield, but d6 only, also has image blocks like those from image module, privacy options, slideshow)
all the flash uploaders recently suffered from incompatibilities with flash 10 i think, but are mostly getting fixed...
jquery slideshow and imagefield slideshow are d5 only.
dragndrop sorting of multiimagefields is native in d6

we need a unified imagefield theory.

Hi,

I'm adding myself to those queueing for a way to bulk/batch upload images into CCK imagefields ;)

IMHO there's another option out there: The Image Publishing module (available for D5 and D6) which allows to upload images into Image nodes by implementing the Gallery Remote API. Gallery2 is a full-featured Gallery application that is supported by a bunch of existing clients like Gallery Remote, Windows XP Publishing Wizard, iPhotoToGallery, digiKam, and others. By utilizing the Gallery Remote API, the "Imagefield import" module would not have to care about the upload process, just take the files over and handle them as it does already - when they arrive somewhere at the server.

However, at the moment the Image Publishing module does not support CCK Imagefields yet. Maybe someone knowing more about the interna of Image and Imagefield module could have a look and evaluate the differences of Image module nodes and Imagefield-based Image nodes; I started a feature request over there, asking if the module could support CCK Imagefield.

Greetings, -asb

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#9 solution (same as #5 http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload) is again only for D6, as most of the mentioned suggestions here are.

but for D5, 2 ways:

1 - Create content type w/ FileField (needs MimeDetect), multiple values, set path to whatever your imagefield_import_path is set to - directions/help text should be included somewhere on the form that this would be a "2-step" process, in that after uploading (multiple) files, one would have to then go to Imagefield import (admin/content/imagefield_import) to edit titles & caption (body). Of course permissions need to be set for whatever users you want be given access.

2 - What I use (as I need "album admin" role types to be able to upload/edit hundreds of images at a time), was a "clone" of Image Import Zip. Clone (a copy of, if also using image_import_zip) by replacing ALL instances (folder, .info, .install & .module) of "image_import" to "imagefield_import", and to make all helps/descriptions less confusing, replace (in this order) all "Image Import" to "Imagefield Import", "Image import" to "Imagefield import", "image import" to "imagefield import", "imageimport" to "imagefield import" and lastly, "Image" to "CCK" (in info file only, & you could add "content" to info file dependencies). You'll end up with a new Imagefield Import Zip module which is a dream!

This is probably not going to happen in the 5.x version, so I'll make this a feature request against 6.x.

It makes sense to be able to import a bunch of pictures by uploading a .zip file or just a bunch of individual images.

Since the module now supports importing multiple images to a single node, this request should be a little easier to implement.

I'll see how difficult it'll be to add an upload widget for uploading a .zip file to the node form.

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I would also greatly appreciate the ability to upload a .zip and have images extracted from it. FUpload runs into PHP mem issues with large quantities of images.

I've decided this is out of scope for this module.

Sorry for opening a closed issue, but there is a sandbox module that offers this functionality: http://drupal.org/sandbox/opdavies/1165110

Would you consider maybe adding this as a sub-module? or is it better as a separate module that depends on imagefield import.

Would you consider maybe adding this as a sub-module? or is it better as a separate module that depends on imagefield import.

I'm happy for my module to be added into Imagefield Import, or to keep it separate (I've applied for full project access).

I've tried the module referenced in comment #17, and it seems to work quite well for my needs. It would be great to see this turned into a separate project, or else integrated into the imagefield_import module.

-Ian