By littleneo on

Hi,

I'm new to drupal (but a bit skilled in other CMS and php/mysql stuff) and really appreciated it until now, specially for ...mmm.. almost everything until now ! worked 2 days on it and just one php file directly edited... wow, you've my vote ! http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-php-finalists

I've integrated IMCE+last TinyMCE + ufku patch (http://drupal.org/node/241753#comment-792305) and everything works fine as far as I know.

I'd like to know what is the complementarity between image (assign, attach..) modules and IMCE. Can I disable some of of the image modules, or the whole thing ?

I also would like to know if there's a way to generate an image node from the IMCE uploader like with the image module to generate galleries.

thanks !

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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cog.rusty commented

Generally IMCE is independent. It manages images as files in directories.

If you don't have image nodes (check the admin/content/node page) and you don't need them, you can disable/uninstall the image module and any modules which depend on it (they should be listed in the admin/build/modules page).

If you need your images to become nodes, so that you can take advantage of the function available for nodes (categories, views, galleries etc), I don't know any integrated way involving IMCE, but I guess you could use the image_import module (included in the image module) to grab the images from wherever IMCE stores them.

If you do that, watch out for duplicate imports the next time image_import runs. You may need a php script to copy only the images not already imported, then import from there, and configure image_import to delete those copies.