By Big Dog on

Does Drupal support pictures in articles, or in blogs?

And is there a picture manager anywhere for 4.3.2?

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fx-1 commented

Check out the 'image' module, which provides a service for uploading and managing images and, in conjunction with the taxonomoy.module, a method of displaying them in collections (e.g. galleries).

The image module provides a filter extension which enables you to reference an uploaded image in a blog or article posting with a pseudo-tag.

If however you want to be able to upload the image at the same time as the post:

Adding an image upload box to a given module's form (blog or article) for example is fairly simple, but things are changing a bit as there is a new File API (which I haven't ported anything to, yet). You can probably glean all you need to know about adding an image upload to another .module with a thorough read of image.module... or ask for more info here...

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Big Dog commented

Hi Benjamin,
I just installed the drupal 4.3.2, and the image 4.3.0 looks good, although the uploading of the image and the article as seperate steps is a little clumsy, and there is no image module for 4.3.2 yet.

GeekLog has nice article image integregration right out of the box.

In an ideal world, I wouldn't have to roll my own. But, if Drupal is flexible enough that rolling my own is fairly easy, that is, Drupal is designed for just this sort of flexibility, then this is not a "showstopper". (I'm a programmer by trade, but this is supposed to be a "fast" project for someone (g)).

Since I'm posting in the pre-installation forum, I am just kicking the tires trying to figure out "out of the box" features, and what things might be possible without too much effort.

I surely appreciate any posts by anyone on this topic!

Thanks!

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Big Dog commented

Can this older version of image 4.3.0 be used in Drup 4.3.2 "as is" or will I end up in the forum asking questions about broken stuff?

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fx-1 commented

As far as I know, 4.3.0 modules should generally be avoided with drupal 4.3.2 because the theme system changed between those revs which affects output handling for various modules. There have also been minor core API changes across those revs which might inhibit a 4.3.0 module administration and operation under a 4.3.1/2 core.

For production sites I am running 4.3.2 + modules from either 4.3.2 or CVS if there are no specific releases of a given module available for 4.3.2.

I haven't tried node_image module, but a quick test of it didn't work for me -- though I'm running from cvs and I haven't sync'd things in a few days.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

4.3.0 modules are compatible with Drupal 4.3.2.

The theme changes are only an issue for the 4.3.x series versus the upcoming 4.4 release.

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Big Dog commented

Besides image 4.3.0, Gallery 4.1.0, I see Node image 4.3.0. I can associate a image apparently with any node? I guess the image would have to already have been uploaded and maybe you would then pick it from a list? How does this work.

... back to reading about taxonomies and nodes .... (g)