By Success on

There are so many different methods for a simple task of inserting images to nodes.

While many of these different methods work, which one is future proof?

Which image mangement module will go into core in future?

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Fusion_Sushi commented

I use the upload attachment, then use the uploaded files url and an img tag to put images in the article.. thats just how I do it. I know that's difficult for non-html users but.. that seems to work fine for me.

If anyone has a better suggestion I'd like to hear about it too.

Success’s picture

Success commented

Thanks for sharing that.

Which pathway/directory do you save your images?

I am also thinking if there is a way to automatically delete any images associated with a node when we delete that node.

Fusion_Sushi’s picture

Fusion_Sushi commented

I use the images dir, but there is no reason that you could not use something like domain/images/news/june. also, I'm not particular about names of images, so one directory is fine, I just check to see that I'm incrementing them.

I don't know of anything that, is configurable and automaticlly deletes files from the server. It should not be difficult to write a small script which is called from CRON that would delete files in a directory at a particular time, here is something that you might use:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?p=10730463#post10730463

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Success’s picture

Success commented

How do you make thumbnails appear in the snippets?

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narres commented

This can be found here: http://drupal.org/project/image

Cause it renders thumbnails and preview and has an integrated img-src. So my users doesn't need any html experience.
If I leave the image empty, it works as a normal node.

Thomas Narres
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Success commented

There was some talk about improvement of a good image management module going to the core for the next major version. Anyone has any idea?