By ivank on

How do people manage the images on their Drupal sites -- what are some common practices?

As I'm posting content to the pages, I am attaching images to individual nodes. As it stands, each image is associated with a specific node yet I can use that image anywhere on the site (since it gets uploaded to a central directory). What's a good way to manage all my images in a centralized manner? Any recommended modules / practices?

Let me know if I'm not clear in my question.

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he_who_shall_not_be_named commented

Try gallery. It has a lot of features: if you uploaded an image using it you can include that image in your posts too.

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nevets commented

I would recommend the image and img_assist modules since it does not sound like you need galleries features and they are easier to setup (and keep updated) than gallery.

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he_who_shall_not_be_named commented

I have a recommendation: try both (gallery and image/img_assist) and you will see.

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ivank commented

The image/img_assist option turned out to be the closest to what I was looking for. Thanks for your suggestions.

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bmaleszyk commented

I, too, have come to the conclusion that Image/Img_assist are the two modules that would help manage image assets within my drupal site (along with the TinyMCE editor module, which provides a decent WYSIWYG editor interface to the node creation pages).

Unfortunately, however, these two (rather, three) modules, as of the last time I installed them via CVS, are remarkably unstable when compared to Drupal Core. It is understandable that because these are third party modules their development cycle will naturally lag behind the core product, yet it is still remarkably frustrating that despite all of its power and flexibility, Drupal does not have a core asset management system in place, a major feature that nearly all of Drupal's Open Source "competitors" contain.

Hopefully, building in a site Asset Management system will become a primary goal of the next major release.

Bryan
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bmaleszyk commented

That is not to say that I don't like Drupal - it is a truly great product, despite its lack of image management capabilities.

Bryan
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows
You can't stop wishing if you don't let go
Of the things that you find and you lose and you know
- Jack Johnson

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