[support] How to display images?

[Laura Scott]

Imagecache + thickbox + cck et al. will give you all of this, except  
for (a) browsing existing images online and (b) 2nd click to expand  
more.

Hope this helps.

Laura

On Jul 18, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Georg Rehfeld wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> still beeing a total Drupal newby I _totally_ got lost in all the
> different opportunities/modules/combinations to upload/display images.
>
> My "wanna have":
>
> - authors of content (mainly 'page' and 'blog') should have a  
> simple way
>    to attach 0 to 5 images to their text content
>    - they preferably should be able to just select some images from  
> their
>      local file system
>    - alternatively they should be able to select images already on the
>      server uploaded by someone else
>    - an attached image is always the (only slightly prepared by
>      scaling/cropping it to something handable) _original_, usually
>      larger, than fitting into the design
>
> - in the teaser view, the first image should be shown in thumbnail  
> size,
>    preferably _inline_ (e.g. floating top left) with the text content.
>    A click on image/text/title/more here just opens the single node  
> view.
>
> - in the single node view all images should be shown below the text of
>    the content, in thumbnail size, building sort of a mini gallery
>    - a first click on an image should open it (preferably using  
> lightbox)
>      in a size fitting into the design (an intermediate size), another
>      click then would open the orignal (with or without lightbox)
>
> - I plan to have specialized CCK variants of 'page' and 'blog' instead
>    of the originals, providing the authors with a list of image upload
>    fields, instead of the attachements section. The attachements then
>    would be interpreted as downloadable attachements, and never shown
>    in the mini-gallery
>
>
> I use Drupal 5.1, but woun't tell you all the docs/modules I have  
> read/
> tested, to not introduce any bias ... just know, I spent a whole  
> week on
> this, without success. Because I'm seriously lost!
>
> How would _you_ do similar?
>
> Any suggestions are very welcome.
>
> Thanks, yours, Georg
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