[drupal-devel] Image extension - Images made easy
Hi, I like the existing image modules: image, img_assist, image_filter, but usually I just need a *simple* way to add images to stories or blogs, and this modules, while powerful, are not that easy for new users. This is a very small and simple module that extends image.module to allow images for any node type -similar to the old image_attach. It uses the excellent api provided by the image.module, thus it only needs a few lines of code. I was planning to build on it providing some additional formatting options, but maybe all this would be more interesting as a patch to the existing image module than as a new module. For the moment, it's only in my sandbox -For 4.6.2 What do you think?. - Walkah? http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/jareyero/modules/... Regards, Jose A. Reyero
On 16-Jul-05, at 10:41 AM, Jose A. Reyero wrote:
What do you think?. - Walkah?
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/jareyero/ modules/imagext/
just had a quick glance... it looks ok. I'm not sure this functionality really belongs in image.module itself, particularly when this same functionality (and much, much more) already exists in img_assist (quite elegantly, imo). However, this is something that comes up quite frequently - i.e. "how do I add images to my blog post" ... perhaps if image.module is destined for core... this would be a nice "base" functionality to accomodate this. -- James Walker :: http://walkah.net/
Ok, patch for image module in http://drupal.org/node/27028 James Walker wrote:
On 16-Jul-05, at 10:41 AM, Jose A. Reyero wrote:
What do you think?. - Walkah?
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/jareyero/ modules/imagext/
just had a quick glance... it looks ok. I'm not sure this functionality really belongs in image.module itself, particularly when this same functionality (and much, much more) already exists in img_assist (quite elegantly, imo).
That is my point, "much, much more", which is usually ok for content editors, but too much for average users. Whether this belongs to image module or not, I think this is just a nice add-on, and because of its simplicity and dependency on image.module, it doesn't really make sense to have a different module - I just got surprised how easily it could be implemented using image.module api.
However, this is something that comes up quite frequently - i.e. "how do I add images to my blog post" ... perhaps if image.module is destined for core... this would be a nice "base" functionality to accomodate this.
Yep, too frequently for me, people just want some *easy* way to add an image to their posts. IMHO image module should definitely be in core, you just need to take a look at the "Top-20 most downloaded Drupal projects" list.
-- James Walker :: http://walkah.net/
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