I used imagecache and imagefield in D5 and thought it was a great way to upload images with thumbnails. I've upgraded to drupal 6 and now for some reason need filefield in order to use imagefield -- but filefield says it's (or is about to be) deprecated..... any help on this?

thanks

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webernet’s picture

webernet commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Filefield is not deprecated.

Only an early 6.x version was deprecated as a substantially improved version was written to replace it. That version (as well as imagefield) is currently alpha quality and is not recommended for use in production sites.

Imagefield and filefield are similar, and thus having the dependency allows a lot of code reuse, meaning the maintainers only need to maintain one copy of the code.

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cgjohnson commented

Aha. Thanks. I thought imagefield and imagecache were still the best way to upload images and auto-create thumbnails in D6. Is that not true? Is there a better way to do it? I just upgraded a d5 site to d6 and would like to go live with it...
thanks,
cg

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MedicSean37 commented

Please take this only as a user experience, not as an expert advice.

I'm currently using the alpha 2 build on my live website. There maybe plenty of bugs that the developers are aware of, but I have yet to encounter a single problem on my site. Everything works great, and imagefield is a great module, used along with imagecache.

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christophweber commented

You're not reading correctly what webernet explained. ImageField and ImageCache are still the best way to deal with images in many people's opinion. It's just that ImageField for Drupal 6 reuses a lot of code from FileField and hence is dependent on it. You do not need to use FileField explicitly if all you are doing is uploading and displaying images. So just enable it and forget about it for now.

Like MedicSean37 I use ImageField alpha versions on a few live sites without adverse effects. Note also that Acquia includes the current alpha in their distribution and is willing to support it. Means a lot to me.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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cgjohnson commented

Thanks - I was momentarily nervous when webernet noted that imagefield was not recommended for production sites. We're using it on our D6 site and it works great. thanks, all.