Adding Images in Stories

Try the TinyMCE module at http://drupal.org/project/tinymce

It adds a WYSIWYG editor to your text fields along with an add image button.

You could use the attachments feature to allow uploading an image, and then modify the node template to display the image. Just another approach to the problem.

I've been wondering about a different way to do this, but I'm not sure if what I'm thinking has already been done in another module (although reading the descriptions I'm not sure it has). Maybe someone who knows Drupal better can give me a pointer!

At the moment I upload images via image.module so it can take care of the file management. Then to put pictures in stories I used img_assist. That's fine, except I have to create my image nodes first, then I create my story, and then I have created two nodes (or more). Also, I have to plan ahead about which pictures I want to use.

I don't really want to upload directly via FTP and link to files because I like the way image.module makes thumbnail sizes, which are just right for normal posts. Also, my wife wants to post too, but I don't her to have to mess around with ftp and then writing <a href... tags.

What I was thinking...

1. Attach pictures to the story using the normal attachment button. That lets the drupal database manage the files.
2. Generate a thumbnail for each picture. I see that upload_image makes a table of thumbnails which would be neat.
3. Then, in the post use some sort of simple code, like [picture:0] [picture:1] to identify which of the pictures I want.
4. The attachments would be set to not list, so when editing you can easily delete pictures you don't want anymore, but people reading don't see an attachment list.

Not sure if the upload would need to keep the original file but maybe just the thumbnail (although could keep both I guess).

That way the adding of picture is quite intuitive for the end user (e.g. my other half who gets very confused by image / img_assist).

Does something like this already exist? If yes, which module, if no, what do other people think?

The closest I can see is upload_image which generates a series of image nodes from a "parent" - maybe that just needs extending with something to generate inline images?

I might have a go at writing something like this, but I don't want to repeat work that's been done before, so if any Drupal experts can comment it would be much appreciated!

Cheers

Stuart

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What if I wanted the thumbnail image to appear to the left of a story's content and title on the homepage? Is this something a module can do for me or an easy code update?

Like this: http://www.mustseeinside.net/images/example.jpg