Is it possible to attach images to comments?

Posted by layermonkey on June 23, 2009 at 12:15am

I have a forum I'm setting up using the built-in forum module. I have added a CCK image field to forum posts, but this only allows images on the INITIAL post in a thread.

Basically I would like someone to be able to say "look at my picture" and then someone could reply to that post (I assume in a comment) and say "Oh yeah, well look at this picture". So a thread might be "Your Favorite Vacation Pictures" and 50 people could each post a JPEG.

Does anybody know...

1. If you can add a CCK field to a comment? (this is my preference, since I'm doing this for the initial forum post and the settings would match)
2. If advanced forum allows for this?
3. A good way to make this happen that I haven't thought of?

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give.

J Walton

Comments

Comment Upload

Posted by Keyz on June 23, 2009 at 12:25am

Without resorting to "comments as nodes" (which may have performance and compatibility implications to consider, you'd need to investigate), no you cannot add a CCK field to comments. The solution I would recommend (though yes this does make the UI a bit different unless you use attachments as well for the node) is http://drupal.org/project/comment_upload

I'd recommend augmenting it also with http://drupal.org/project/uploadpath to keep your files directory from getting out of hand.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks

Posted by layermonkey on June 24, 2009 at 1:20am

That worked just fine, although it was tricky to find all of the options to administer. There's a lot more to do with this site, and a lot more to learn, but I'm just attacking it one step at a time.