On 02 Mar 2011, at 10:20 PM, Richard wrote:
Op dinsdag 01 maart 2011 13:23:43 schreef Richard:
Op maandag 28 februari 2011 19:52:54 schreef Jeff:
I fear this is a really contentious issue with Drupal, and I'm sure many people feel as I do that there should be transparent and unified method for providing users with a simple and effective image upload facility.
Ik would be great if the interface would be similar compared to the Wordpress image upload wizard. That was is very easy to work with.
Yesterday a module was released (a new version of the module) that does this, it is called image picker and its url is: http://drupal.org/project/imagepicker It's a nice module :)
Thanks for that heads up, Richard. It does look very cool, and I would have jumped at it 3 or 4 days ago! (Before I discovered "insert"!)
Best of all it doesn't have a clunky front-end, and simply uses your computer's browser to locate the image. Then Upload, then press Insert, and you're done: )
Almost nothing to do to install and get it up and running, too, and the only 'gotcha' I can see is that it puts the uploads into per user directories. (The gotcha I'm referring to is when I converted D6 images to imagefield and the user created nodes lost their permissions.) I'm still convinced that users rarely, if ever, need to refer back to their old images, and that feature adds confusing complexity for end-users. Think about it like with Facebook. You create 'galleries' and images are tagged to appear in users and groups. But it's not like you ever get presented with the option or need to re-insert an image that you uploaded before. (Okay, on second thoughts and checking out the Groups and Public options with imagepicker, I'll provisionally retract that, as I can possibly foresee some use-case scenarios - maybe - but they don't apply to me.)
It's probably too much to hope for consensus, but personally I'm still tending towards the very simple imagefield + insert modules. I can simply override and scale the image sizes in the imagefield settings, so that all my user upload displays are consistent with the site's theme.
I'm not the most skilled Drupal user by any means, so please take my views with a pinch of salt. But I have been using Drupal since 2006 and been upgrading along the way from 4.7 to 6.x. Now, to leave the upgrade bugs behind (image! yah!), I've decided to start fresh on D7 and I'm using node_export to bring my content across, and rebuilding a lot manually.
I'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts and experiences...