Easy image insertion with HTMLArea and UploadImage plugin

2005

created on Thu, 2005-01-20 16:06

I tried to leave a comment on this Development Seed post, but logging in then denies me access to the page?

I login (using a Drupal ID -- Boris Mann@bryght.com), I can no longer see any content. Do you have "access content" turned off for authenticated members?

In any case, pretty much all the points are addressed by HTMLArea's UploadImage plugin (you just need to enable it and allow permission). It works both with James' new image module, as well as the existing one in contrib.

UploadImage plugin does this already, as well as being able to pick from previously created image nodes
UploadImage also does this
HTMLArea just does the HTML. You can even drag the corners of the image to resize it. So, no filters. You can use the "Filtered HTML" input filter to allow tags, but disallow other formatting.

Oh yes -- and cut and pasting an image from other web pages also works, except that (of course) you are including the image from a remote URL.

Not to say there isn't room for improvement. James' current image module doesn't handle galleries, but the good news is that Moshe is building a dedicated album module to handle this (with tagging!). Also, the UploadImage plugin only pastes in full size images -- it needs to be extended to choose between full size and one of the generated thumbnail sizes, as well as choose to link to the original, full size node.

For those that don't like HTMLArea, for whatever reason, the UploadImage plugin might be included with a standalone module that handles filter insertions instead.

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htmlarea uploadimage is brilliant

On January 21st, 2005 Ian Ward (not verified) says:

Hey Boris, thanks for telling me about that error...I was experimenting w/ the taxonomy_access module a few days back and missed a setting. It works, btw :-)

I just tried out the UploadImage in HTMLarea, uploaded an image into the image gallery, stuck it in a page, and resized it w/ click and drag; it's brilliant! I am going to play with it some more and see how it reacts when dragging the image around through a bunch of text to see if there are some good pointers to help prevent breaking apart text layout if someone gets indecisive about where they want to put the image in the text and end up dragging it all about the page. Thanks for the tip-off on this; it's going to help out a lot of our clients who want good control over images on pages w/o the need to know any html or go through a long process to get the image on the page.

Ian

taxonomy_access has issues li

On March 13th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:

taxonomy_access has issues like authenticated users cannot see their posted blogs (my blogs) and other content. So it works but still has bugs, issue has been filed in drupal.org

Htmlarea

On February 3rd, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:

I have been struggling with htmlarea, imange_assistant and FCKeditor.

I must say that htmlarea seems to be the most promising, but it still does not work for me.

First, when I upload an image using the uploadimage plugin, I have to go backwards by one page in the child window created by the Drupal upload image tool. What I get after the image is uploaded is a view of the home page on my site with the uploaded image in the bottom right corner. When I go backwards, I get back into the proper window. I click Okay and return to the htmlarea.

I get a resizeable box with a red x in it.

My image module settinga re correct since I can upload images and make a gallery and such.

Any ideas? FCKeditor is pukey and slow and I do not want to have to use that.

Thanks!

On Bryght, everything is inte

On February 3rd, 2005 Boris Mann says:

On Bryght, everything is integrated and works together correctly. We can't provide support for things not running on our hosted service. Try posting in the Drupal support forum.