By ibexy on

I have Imagefield installed but it will not let me link to and show an external image. I want to build a view with images residing in an external website. I dont want to load these images to my account. I know this is possible in the text editor but this will not serve my purpose. Is there another module that can allow me do this? I think Emfield does it but only with Flickr and other sites its been coded to interact with. Thanks in advance.

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ibexy commented

what i mean is, how do I show a remotely located image using imagefield or any other well suited module?

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WorldFallz commented

Yep, I think the http://drupal.org/project/emfield module is what you want-- iirc, it can be extended if you need to.

EDIT:

i've never tried it, but there's also the http://drupal.org/project/remote_file module-- might be worth a look.

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ibexy commented

thanks. will check them out.

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ibexy commented

Problem solved. I found you could "Rewrite the output of this field" in views. So I created a text field into which i loaded the url of the remote image. In the format section for this field within the view, I added the necessary html and put in the replacement tokens. This pulled the image. I think you have to instal the token module first. This is what I have as the "rewrite" for the field:

<img class='alignleft size-full wp-image-2816' title=' [title]' src=' [field_item_image_value] ' alt=' ' />

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osu_bucks commented

Your suggestion is awesome! I was able to use table wizard and migrate to image csv with image url and rewrite the output to show the image!! :)
But... sorry I'm a newbie. But after enabling imagecache, how do I resize the image? Sorry =(

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sohell commented

I want to show the image thumbnail in the home page or navigation page, and people will see the full size of the image when they will enter the post only.

it will be really an honour if anyone can provide a solution.

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ibexy commented

have you tried imagecache module? You can define various sizes for different views with that.

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mightyiam commented

In D7 this functionality _should_ be provided IMO by a module which supplements the Media module. Here's the feature request:
http://drupal.org/node/1149008