Symphony.

Does a (good) image field exist? The file upload field is fine for just uploading, but on the site I am currently building, I need the client to select previously uploaded images as well.

Is there a (nice looking!) field for this already?

If not I would like your input on the functionality of the field. I have a little time to kill..

Yup, the Mediathek 2 may be what you’re looking for. Also the Image Cropper Field might be of interest.

Looks good!

I’m hoping it fits my needs! Thanks!

Edit: just checked out your website, couldn’t stop staring.. Just how did you do it?

Yeah I’ve been mesmerized by phoque’s site too. A quick firebugging looks like he’s using the background-attachment:fixed; css style for each box. Pretty cool stuff.

The Symphony upload field will probably be replaced at some point with this: http://github.com/rowan-lewis/advanceduploadfield

It’s nice looking and has an image preview, but you can’t yet choose already upload files.

The reason the Advanced Upload Field doesn’t let you link to already uploaded files is because those belong to another entry, and if you where to delete that entry then any other entries linked to the file would no longer work correctly.

Perhaps this problem can be avoided by copying the file again, what do you think?

Yeah I’ve been mesmerized by phoque’s site too. A quick firebugging looks like he’s using the background-attachment:fixed; css style for each box. Pretty cool stuff.

Hush!

The reason the Advanced Upload Field doesn’t let you link to already uploaded files is because those belong to another entry, and if you where to delete that entry then any other entries linked to the file would no longer work correctly.

I would say this is easily fixed by checking if the field is used anywhere else before deleting. This shouldn’t be too hard.

So far, I have not seen any image field that I really liked, so I might create my own in a few days. If you guys were to vote, what should it really be capable of?

Please don’t create another one, lets just get one that works really well and put it in the core.

Requirements so far:

• Must be capable of using already uploaded images.
• Must have an image preview that shows as much of the image as possible.

• Must add something random to the image so that you don’t have to worry about naming conflicts
• Should delete the image from the filesystem if it’s ‘removed’ & not linked to any other section

Optional niceties (that I believe people have already done or attempted at least)

• Ability to limit the filetype and filesize
• Ability to enforce RGB
• Cropper
• Support multiple images

I’d love to see a “manipulate on upload” configuration option, which triggers the image manipulation function during upload…

• I would love to have the multiple upload feature of version 1.7 again. I integrated a field duplication feature in my Date and Time extension – maybe something like this might work for images, too.
• Drag and drop feature for textareas.

Must add something random to the image so that you don’t have to worry about naming conflicts

This should be an optional setting – I see the benefits but I don’t like my file names to be changed automatically.

I’d love to see a “manipulate on upload” configuration option, which triggers the image manipulation function during upload…

This is a good idea. To keep things separated it could be good idea to just add a delegate for this purpose and add the “manipulate on upload” function to the JIT extension directly.

Hmmm, I debated about saying this one, so I’m not 100% convinced this is a necessity. But it might be nice not to have to worry about the PHP upload filesize limit, and maybe use a Javascript or Flash uploader? That way you could choose the limit yourself. Seems like a lot of files that come off of digital cameras these days are 2-5 MB.

So far this is a pretty extensive list, but I guess most of these points are really easy to implement, if they are taken into account from the beginning.

Please don’t create another one, lets just get one that works really well and put it in the core.

To my knowledge there isn’t one that works very well, so why not create one which is easy to extend and covers all basic functionality, and put that in the core?

I will start sketching it out, will keep you updated!

Other than image cropping, what difference would there be to Mediathek?

Hmmn, I must admit I only gave mediathek a first glance, will check it out for real before doing double work..

You’re right, mediathek seems to do pretty much everything I want it to do. I think I missed it’s point when I first checked it out.

Guys, One thing I have noticed recently with images in symphony (on my install anyway) is that if a CMYK color space image is uploaded.. JIT does not understand it and will not display the image.. if we were to determine an integration of any features, I would be thinking of checking color space of file to ensure correct rendering.. just at thought!