[support] Image questions

[Metzler, David]

Unfortunatly this is a complex topic.  Here's a basic summary of my
knowledge, but hey there might be other takes on this.

Random Images: Best done with a view that returns one node in random
sort order.  It can be based on any node type, but means you got to make
"nodes" out of your images. I'm working on modules (really slowly) to
facilitate Jquery enabling this approach. 

Image uploading: If your needs are simple, image and image_assist will
take care of most of your needs.  There's a tinymce plugin from
image_assist that facilitates making nodes out of images on the fly. IF
you want more control about where your images are placed and how they
are sized than the image module can give you.  Pick up image_cache and
image_field and make images into fields in custom defined content types
with CCK. 

There are other tweaked image processing modules out there, but these
are the two approaches I hear most used. 

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of sander-martijn
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:55 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Image questions

I'm having some trouble getting a grasp on what to use when and where
for images.  There are so many modules available but from my
explorations so far I can't figure out which one to use in which case.  
I've been spending a good amount of time searching through the forums,
reading through HOW TOs, and downloading in installing some modules to
test them out. 

My question: Is there a good place that discusses various approaches to
images in drupal in a clear way? 

The image requirements for this site are fairly complex, so outlining
all of them and asking how to do each one is probably not the best way -
so I'm hoping there's already some good info out there somewhere that
I've missed.

A list of the routes I've taken so far that seem to half solve some of
the problems but definitely not all of them:
Upload
Image (plus Image Attach, Image Gallery, Image Import) IMCE Node Images

An example of half solving: random image only displays a thumbnail and
it's random across all images.  I can't imagine to whom that would be
useful to be honest.  What is useful is to randomly display an image at
a specified size (or at least choose between thumbnail and full size),
to select a directory to choose the images from and to have a straight
forward way for an end user to upload, delete etc those images.


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