By jeforma on

Good morning,

I have been trying to find a way for a long while to mass import images in Drupal 4.7. Since my image sites are commercial, I need to find a secure and efficient way of doing so.

What would be the best way to mass import .jpg files and create them as nodes (also creating the appropriate taxonomy terms) with Drupal 4.7, any modules you guys suggest me?

Thanks for your time!

Charles
Gamebgs.com

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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tormu commented

This is something I'd be needing also.. I've got around 1200 articles waiting to be imported to Drupal and I've got the hang about mass generating story-nodes and including mp3-attachments to them as well, but adding images seems like a bit harder task..

I've got CCK and Image and Img_assist installed, so I think I've got to find a way to add image-nodes and to make it generate the thumbnails as well, and then add the appropriate img_assist macro to the story-node, after the image-node is done.

Any suggestions from people that have done this already, there has to be people like that :)

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underpressure commented

Image Publishing module works with image and image gallery module, after you install the module it creates a registry file you download. When you install this file it allows you to use Windows XP "publish this folder to the web" under file and folders task. when you click on it you can select all the images in that folder you want to upload.

Before uploading pictures to the web you can create a gallery to store all the files in, preset the upload size and it works with all other image module contribs.

To get this module to work for you, allow access control to the galleries only to admin and then use image assist to choose the files you want to use from the galleries of mass uploaded images.

http://drupal.org/project/image_pub
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tormu commented

Image_import-module seems promising, http://drupal.org/project/image_import

I don't even know if I have the walkah-versio of the image-module, but importing 200 images went smoothly, at least I've got image nodes for all of them and thumbnails generated as well.. Will have to figure out how to attach the right image to right node, since the DB I'm working on isn't exactly the most logical on structure :)

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jferjan commented

http://drupal.org/node/58685

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jasonwhat commented

These are fine options for admin, but what about users being able to upload more than one image at once. There use to be a bulk upload module for this, but it seems that such options are dead now. Am I missing something.

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sepeck commented

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jasonwhat commented

I love the module, but I need something that can simply be done on the site, not something where users need to download registry settings first. For this site, users are from around the world and I need them to simply be able to have a form with slots for 5 or 6 images. While image publish is great, I still think an inline bulk image upload should be standard for all CMSes.

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grandcat commented

Yes, I had the same problem, so I wrote a module which uses a flash (swfupload) to upload multiple images to the server: Image FUpload --> http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload
I think, it's perfect for, but I is still under development and shouldn't be used in production environments!

Features

* Upload multiple images with one click
* Fully integrates in image module (thumbs creation / file size limit) + using Drupals AJAX
* Every user can upload images depending on permission (Not only restricted to administrator)
* Taxonomy and all other modules are supported
* Automatic node title creation (customisable / themeable)