image module and imagefield cck: how do I get the best of both?

Posted by gerlos on June 30, 2009 at 5:22pm

Hello everyone,
I've created a context-sensitive mini-gallery using views2 and an imagefield in a custom "photo" node created using cck. I love the fact that using lightbox module users can browse images very easily, and using imagefield and imagecache I have a lot of control on the size of the displayed images.

Now I'd like to let my users re-use the images from the custom "photo" nodes in their blog posts, like you can do using the image_attach module from image module or in a easy way like with the image_filter module.

I've searched everywhere, and I didn't find any way to do these kind of things using images uploaded through the imagefield module.

So I though that I could switch from imagefield to the image module, that lets me do this kind of things easily, but I found that I couldn't use the images from the image module in views2, so I can't swithch my custom context-sensitive view from imagefield to image module :-(

Any clue? Is there a way to get what I want? Where should I look? What should I try?

Comments

IMCE Image module

Posted by caschbre on June 30, 2009 at 5:29pm

Check out the IMCEImage module. I've never used it but it looks like it may accomplish what you're trying to do.

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Posted by WorldFallz on June 30, 2009 at 6:09pm

Also checkout the http://drupal.org/project/inline module-- there's a patch in the issue queue to work with cck filefields and imagefields.

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Thank you, but...

Posted by gerlos on July 2, 2009 at 6:36pm

Thank you, they are both interesting but it seems that they both let me do only half of the job - attach an image and display it inline.

I still can't find an easy way (from the user point of view) to put an inline imagein a new node from a different, existing node... :-(

Solution?

Posted by mrbeau on February 4, 2010 at 3:40pm

Hi gerlos,

I'm looking for a similar solution. Did you find a good way to insert an image from an existing node? I'd like to do that, as well as give users the option of inserting an image which would create a new node at the same time (which could then have taxonomy applied to it etc.).

Cheers,
Matt