On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:51 am, Bruce Whealton wrote:
Hi, I'm wanting to use Drupal for a site where a company will want to display it's projects. What we'd have would be photographs, image files that would contain a few photographs and some captions to explain things to the visitor obviously. I also want a tool for including image files in a posting. I've mentioned this on topics that were related but different, so I thought I'd write with a focus on using images. First is choosing the tools to use, the modules. Do I use just one? For example, I see a module for Gallery, one for Image and Image_assist, image import, and image_filter. Some of these seem like they would work not all alone but in conjunction with others. Some features that I'd like and which module seems to address it, are as follows:
- allow batch uploading by the customer, on their site, of a zip
or other compressed file, that will be unzipped by the system.
I don't think the Image module can do this, though I never really tried to. Based on the description, I'd try the image_import module, unless I were going with the full install of Gallery, but I don't know that it does it either.
- Allow
captioning for each image
The Image module does this.
- Add images to story/page/other nodes
I use Image Filter for this.
Qquestion 1>So, #1 and #2 seem like they would be met by either Gallery, Image or Image Import. #3 maybe is what I would need for the inline images. But should I use Image or Gallery or Image Import but not both or all three? Is there another module worth considering? I'm just trying to get an idea how to not duplicate and confuse others by having two or more modules that do the same thing.
I would start with the Image, Image Filter and image_import modules, first. Then, if they did not address the functionality I was looking for, I would try Gallery. The Gallery module is used to include the Gallery program and it's features in Drupal, so I would try the native Drupal stuff first.
Question 2> referring to #3 above, I have image_assist installed but I'm not seeing where on the add/page or add/story forms I would see the place to include a photograph into the posting. Not to sound ignorant, but how does "Image Assist" assist a person adding a node with one or more photographs? I do see attach file but that's there without Image Assist. Please clear this up for me or help Sorry I'm so verbose...
The Image Filter module allows the easy inclusion of pictures in other nodes, by using a special syntax: [Image:123] where 123==a node id. You can put that anywhere in the Body of the node, and the image will be placed there.
Q3> Should I consider other modules for working with or using images?
I have not used the other modules, so I cannot say what their usefulness is.
I have recently used Image and Image Filter on this site: http://www.flattfamily.com/william/
I started to use the gallery features of image, then opted not to, as it did not flow with the way I was setting up the site.