[support] switching away from image module

[Jean Gazis]

These are the problems I'm having with images on one site: the images,
thumbnails, and previews are in the files/images directory. They are in a
gallery, but in the gallery view it shows all the info, but does not show
the actual image at any size. The individual image node view is the same.
When I inserted the images into other page nodes, some appear and some
don't, but I can't see any difference between them.

http://urbanorganic.jeangazis.com/node/2 contains:
 <img src="/files/ur1/images/red-williams-pears.jpg" class="framert"
alt="red pears">

http://urbanorganic.jeangazis.com/node/1 contains:
<img src="/files/ur1/images/1-basil.jpg" class="framert" alt="fresh basil">

The first image is visible, the second shows the alt text or a missing icon
depending on the browser. I can't figure out what's different. I did not
change any settings in the image module, and resetting to defaults just in
case didn't do anything.

In addition, when I tried to use the "image import" feature, it made
duplicate copies of the thumbnail and preview and put them back in the
original directory where it was importing _from_.

Any ideas?

Jean

On 8/28/07, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail at webthatworks.it> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:23:20 -0400
> "Jean Gazis" <jgazis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I also have a site where I really need it to be easy for users to
> > upload photos, and it doesn't look like imagefield and imagecache
> > are the answer to that, either. I might try one of the gallery
> > mods. I've only used the gallery that comes with image.
>
> I'm using it with 5.2... I used it with 4.5 or 4.7 and uploaded some
> hundreds of images with no problem.
> Yep... the upload part is hard to fine tune (permissions? quota?
> taxonomy?)
> So your main problem was uploads and erratic behaviour, is it?
>
> > So it seems like the module has a reputation for being buggy, and
> > is going wrong for me in more than one way, so I'm interested in
> > alternatives. I'd prefer that they don't require custome theming,
> > though, because I haven't gotten into that yet.
>
> Well my problem was css were scattered in gallery2, block, gallery
> etc... and having something that look good in drupal *and* in gallery
> as a stand alone app was not that fun + some repetition not perfect
> integration in "messages".
> I'm not saying that it was terribly hard or impossible... just it was
> boring and I think hard to maintain.
>
> My concern is that while I find positive Image module looks like a
> page node... maybe it looks like a page node too much, users should
> have "less" freedom.
>
> Just first impression... actually I was interested in your opinion to
> standarize/invest in one module to build up galleries.
>
> --
> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
> http://www.webthatworks.it
>
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