[support] How to display images?

Matt Funk matze999 at gmx.net
Fri Jul 20 20:18:13 UTC 2007


Have you read this one?
"HOW TO: Create an image gallery using CCK and Views (not Image Module)"
http://drupal.org/node/144725

Does it help?

mat

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 20:24, 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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