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