By Dave_K on

I've been working on setting up a site in Drupal 6.4, and while I'm very pleased with most features, I'm kind of stumped on what to do about images. I haven't seen any cohesive resources explaining how to use images in Drupal, and I'm a little surprised that there's effectively no standard support for them at all.

I digress. Could someone recommend a few image modules for me? What I'd like to do is the following:

  • Be able to upload images and associate them with postings
  • Be able to resize the images and have them automatically turned into thumbnails
  • Have a large image displayed above a posting and an optional image displayed beneath it
  • Have an optional set of images in a "slideshow" like format available underneath the post
  • The ability to place images inside a post would be nice, but not necessary

Can anyone point me in the right direction for this please? Things that work along with CCK would be nice, but I'm willing to consider other options if there just isn't anything available.

Thanks a ton in advance!

Dave

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mcjim’s picture

mcjim commented

Start with: imagefield for CCK integration, imagecache for resizing and IMCE for images inside a post.
You can do amazing things with imagefield and imagecache. Lightbox2 can do slideshows. These all work wonderfully with Views, too.

dnewkerk’s picture

dnewkerk commented

I'm in the process of writing a comparison:
http://drupal.org/node/316884

It's not complete yet by any means, but should give you a start. I've heard Asset module will be releasing an alpha version for Drupal 6 within the week, so keep an eye on that.

Since you say "The ability to place images inside a post would be nice, but not necessary"... you might be best served with Imagefield + Imagecache. Which the last I checked cannot yet be within content in the way Image module nodes (via Image Assist), IMCE files, and Asset can. But it is very versatile in other ways.

Not sure about the slideshow beneath the post, though I'd look into Node Carousel or maybe Views Slideshow if your images are nodes (e.g. possibly include with a Node Reference or View Reference field respectively)... if they are just files, then I haven't tried this but you might somehow be able to use this: http://www.frontpageslideshow.net/demos/drupal/ ... or this: http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/ ... http://jonraasch.com/blog/a-simple-jquery-slideshow

-- David
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cochran242’s picture

cochran242 commented

I was in the same position and I am definitely not a developer and wanted something easy to integrate. I am currently using 2 modules that I think work very well:
Album Photos - This module allows for easy upload and Album/gallery creation and integrates well in the site. http://drupal.org/project/photos

IMCE - I use this for image upload into forum posts and pages. http://drupal.org/project/imce

Dave_K’s picture

Dave_K commented

Thanks for the advice. I'll try these things out. :)

On another note, is sticking with CCK-oriented modules limiting me? Should I be looking at some non-CCK image mods as well? I kinda jumped into CCK because it seems to be one of the standard "using Drupal? use this!" items, but I might be able to live without it if the other mods really are better.

Thanks again! I really appreciate it :)

Dave

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WorldFallz commented

there's also the http://drupal.org/project/image and http://drupal.org/project/asset modules. There's also talk of combining all the best features the image-imagefield-asset modules into one cohesive image handling solution.

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