By calefilm on

Can someone please tell me what is the best way for creating captions for images? Via a module or other means without hacking/entering php code per image?

The descriptions are invisible for ImageField; if I want to hack the code per Image I can but that doesn't make much sense. if I want UfPload module I have to install Image.Module which conflicts with ImageField... All I would like to do is upload a simple picture via CCK and add a simple caption once the image has been uploaded in my Content Type.

I realize this sounds/is simple but I've been typing in Images and Captions all night into "SEARCH" and can't find a simple solution (as well as researching the large number of image modules--many unpopular versus ImageField).

Thank you.

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melwyn.s commented

in cck edit - under submission form settings - body field label ...type caption ..

...you have a caption field after every image ..

Als.if you select multiple values for the image field (i.e you can upload more than one image).. you will have description field for every image

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calefilm commented

But the description field for every image is invisible... It doesn't show up on the page... so in order to print description I have to follow these instructions: http://drupal.org/node/432846

which is ridiculous if I'm adding descriptions to multiple images in the same node

I'm missing something very basic I think...

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melwyn.s commented

I think cos you have not enabled description in global settings...

go to cck (your content) - edit - manage fields - configure the photo/pic(image) field - scroll right to the bottom ..you should see description field and two check boxes ..Enabled, disabled

i hope its that what you want ...

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calefilm commented

I did that... it sounds like I may have an internal issue here... however, obviously other people have had the same problem. I thought this was an inherent issue with the module itself but if you get a positive result (see a description in your node) then I must have something set up wrong.

I have no clue what to do other than to avoid using this module for that purpose.

melwyn.s’s picture

melwyn.s commented

i am using & activated both the imagecache and imagefield module and i have a description field below each image

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calefilm commented

Think my issue may be a result of conflicts between Filefield (meta) and Imagefield. http://drupal.org/node/310126

I can't figure it out.. posted an issue over there. If I ever figure out how to allow descriptions to be visible I'll for sure get back!

Thanks for your help.

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calefilm commented

After you upload image in Imagefield and enable and add description...

Go to Views, add fields:
"Content: [Field name_a]"
"Content: [Field name_a] data" (mark descriptions, alt, or title)

not what I was looking for... someone also mentioned you can add descriptions thru Lightbox2. So i"ll try that as well.

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tinem commented

I have the same problems as you and have NEVER got Description and Alt to functioning in Drupal 6 and would also like to have a caption or something like this to show who has taken a photo on my site http://beta.findtoilet.dk/browse

Did you solve this and what did you do, please? And do you have a site where I can see how this look?

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asb commented

Same issue here. Searching through posts about "imagefield" and "captions" for ages, seems there is no viable solution for Drupal.

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bigimprintwebmaster commented

jcaption works nicely for me.