What is the best solution for Images?

By bluenose37 on 14 Jun 2009 at 00:13 UTC

I'm using Drupal 6.12, Filefield, Imagefield, Image Cache and views,
I've also looked at Image, Image Gallery and Image Browser with FCKEditor.

Each seems to work well but raises a few issues.

1. Filefied allows images to be uploaded to populate a CCK field. Is there a way to populate a CCK field with an image that has already been uploaded?

2. Once the image files have been uploaded, is there a way to keep the files organized and clean out older unused files?

3. Is there a way of using an Image from the Image, Image Browser, Image Gallery suite to populate a CCK image field?

4. What is the direction that will be supported in future Drupal releases?

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bluenose37 commented 15 June 2009 at 15:46

Is there any integration between IMCE and the Image, Image Browser modules.

Still need to know the long term direction, what platform would I be best using:

IMCE
Image, Image Browser
CCK, Filefield,Image Field, Image Cache

I have images as a cck field in many of my nodes and also want to have images in the body of the node.

My final answer

bluenose37 commented 4 November 2009 at 01:08

The modules that I ended up using for images are:

CCK
Views
Filefield
Imagefield
Insert
Image Resize Filter
Lightbox or Thickbox
Image API
Image Api GD2
ImageCache
Image FUpload
Imagecache Actions

With this combination of modules there doesn't seem to be anything that can't be done.

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WorldFallz commented 4 November 2009 at 01:15

I would say you definitely chose a winning combination-- filefield, imagefield, imageapi, and imagecache have been added to core for d7 ;-)

But what about the editor?

bg1 commented 26 December 2009 at 15:47

The fact that WorldFallz thinks this is a good selection makes me want to try it out.

But what editor did you end up with (I am currently using CKEditor).

And are you using the native editor module or the WYSIWYG API? (And if you are using WYSIWYG API, what folders is what in and did you have to do any configuration to make it work - I am not yet familiar with Drupal standard practices beyond expanding files into certain folders and enabling modules).

Finally, I don't see IMCE on the list. Is there an reason why you left this module out? I had heard really good things about it in conjunction with FCKEditor/CKEditor.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

By the way, does anyone know of a good discussion paper that describes all the considerations regarding an editor, image tools, and other basic content management tools.
It would be great is someone would come up with some distribution packages specifically for alternative editor/image tools needs. (Perhaps that already exists - if so, where?)

Thanks for any suggestions.