Multiple image batch uploads
steveray - October 30, 2009 - 02:54
| Project: | Image Picker |
| Version: | 6.x-2.5 |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Image Picker is (so far) the best Drupal image uploader I've used. I and my sites' users don't need a separate node per photo and prefer to embed multiple photos within and throughout text in a single blog entry.
Feature request:
I would love to select multiple images in one dialog (ctrl-click) on my local machine and have them all upload in one batch.
This would hugely reduce the amount of repetitive mouse-clicking in uploading the photos.
Thanks
Steve
#1
I have been aware that there are javascript utilities that can manage the uploading so that this appears as multiple uploads in one go, clever stuff. I will need to find one that can be adapted, if anyone can come up with some pointers or examples that would help ;-)
#2
Try these? I don't code Drupal (yet), but I've tried or at least considered these bulk-image-upload solutions:
This Module:
http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload
using this flash uploader:
http://code.google.com/p/swfupload/
I like the swf uploader but have found the drupal implementation very confusing for a user. Nothing happens the first time until they click the save button at the bottom of the entry form for the node and then the upload starts. After this, there appear to be two places to upload images additional, or maybe I had some settings wrong. Whatever, the implementation wasn't as easy as the concept. It's like you can only upload or only type text on each pass.
This Module:
http://drupal.org/project/imagex
using this uploader:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/postlet/
Main problem here is that all the different users' images go into a single common directory.
This Module for imagefield:
http://drupal.org/project/jifupload
Has this text
I'm not even going to try to explain that to a user. That and that it's still in dev make this module a non-starter for me.
The module author says:
so this may be one to consider since you seem to have already done in a single uploader what he's trying to do with the bulk uploader.
Steve
#3
Thanks for these links, I will pick over them to see what is useable
I tried http://www.uploadify.com/
It's very nice, you can select multiple files in one visit to the filesystem list, it queues them up and then uploads, but no way could I get Drupal to accept the request ;-(
#4
Now in development version:
New submodule which uses the Postlet java applet for uploading multiple files in one go.
Requires jre on the client side which most people have these days.