Note that for this to work, you need both the original content-field.tpl.php and your modified copy content-field-field_image.tpl in your theme folder. If you do not have content-field.tpl.php, content-field-field_image.tpl will not be called.

See http://drupal.org/node/269319#comment-962627

Tim Knittel

This doesn't work if you have imagecache processing the image field.

See this issue for a workaround if you're using imagecache.

This topic "Description" in Imagefield is very confusing for me. If "Description field" is enable in Global settings, i would expect that this fied is showing up in the node view too. I think an easier solution is too make a custom textfield for the description for everybody who don't like hardcore theming at all.

Don't work. I create new field "field_cap" and in my theme directory I create file content-field-field_cap.tpl.php. Then I paste the code into the file. There are no changes.
If this file empty: There are no changes also

I am adding images via imagefield + insert module + wysiwyg module + tinymce
I just realised that the images in the node are not displayed by cck, they are displayed as ordinary images.
Therefore nothing in this thread applies!

I thought you guys were grabbing the 'alt' or 'title' part of the img html somehow, and displaying that.
Now I'm back to square one. Are image captions really this difficult??

If you're using lightbox2 module, you need this theme function instead:

function MYTHERE_imagefield_image_imagecache_lightbox2($view_preset, $field_name, $item, $node, $rel = 'lightbox', $args = array()) {
  
  // Call the original theme function
  $output = theme_imagefield_image_imagecache_lightbox2($view_preset, $field_name, $item, $node, $rel, $args);
  
  // For our field, add the description.
  if ($field_name == 'FIELD NAME YOU CARE ABOUT') {
    $output = '<div class="image">' . $output . '</div>';
    
    $output .= '<div class="description">' . $item['data']['description'] . '</div>';
    
  }
  return $output;
}

Here is another solution: http://drupal.org/project/image_caption

Shai

I put this directly in the node-type.tpl.php. Any reason to not do it this way?

<?php print $field_main_image[0][data][title]; ?>

field_main_image is my fieldname

is that the title implies that it will be about printing the description but the example code prints the title. If there is no title then nothing appears on the page hidden or otherwise.

If you want the description then substitute step 3 with :

<?php if ($item['data']['description']): ?>
  <div class="image-description"><?php print $item['data']['description']; ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

Saludos

El Bandito

I finally found you! I've been looking for you for hours on how to write the code that I can use in a field.tpl.php file and now I've found it. Maybe all this information is in a logical place where I haven't been looking but I just want to express my gratefulness! I would like to contribute to the Handbook pages to show anyone an example of what "code" is needed to connect a node.tpl.php and a field.tpl.php. Clearly I'm not a php coder.

The title field on the other hand, is intended for longer purposes, has a default limit of 500 characters, and may be switched to a text area.

I'm still wondering if that is still valid für D7. For now, it prints out an error when more than 128characters are entered. On submitting, it returns:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'field_slide_title' at row 1: INSERT INTO {field_data_field_slide} (entity_type, entity_id, revision_id, bundle, delta, language, field_slide_fid, field_slide_alt, field_slide_title) VALUES (:db_insert_placeholder_0, :db_insert_placeholder_1, :db_insert_placeholder_2, :db_insert_placeholder_3, :db_insert_placeholder_4, :db_insert_placeholder_5, :db_insert_placeholder_6, :db_insert_placeholder_7, :db_insert_placeholder_8), (:db_insert_placeholder_9, :db_insert_placeholder_10, :db_insert_placeholder_11, :db_insert_placeholder_12, :db_insert_placeholder_13, :db_insert_placeholder_14, :db_insert_placeholder_15, :db_insert_placeholder_16, :db_insert_placeholder_17), (:db_insert_placeholder_18, :db_insert_placeholder_19, :db_insert_placeholder_20, :db_insert_placeholder_21, :db_insert_placeholder_22, :db_insert_placeholder_23, :db_insert_placeholder_24, :db_insert_placeholder_25, :db_insert_placeholder_26); Array ( [:db_insert_placeholder_0] => node [:db_insert_placeholder_1] => 37 [:db_insert_placeholder_2] => 37 [:db_insert_placeholder_3] => page [:db_insert_placeholder_4] => 0 [:db_insert_placeholder_5] => de [:db_insert_placeholder_6] => 38 [:db_insert_placeholder_7] => Meisterwild ist ein einmaliger Zusammenschluss von zwei Jägern und einem Metzger [:db_insert_placeholder_8] => Meisterwild ist ein einm2aliger Zusammenschluss von zwei Jägern und einem Metzgermeister1234567890123 Von Männern mit Geschmack!d [:db_insert_placeholder_9] => node [:db_insert_placeholder_10] => 37 [:db_insert_placeholder_11] => 37 [:db_insert_placeholder_12] => page [:db_insert_placeholder_13] => 1 [:db_insert_placeholder_14] => de [:db_insert_placeholder_15] => 39 [:db_insert_placeholder_16] => [:db_insert_placeholder_17] => [:db_insert_placeholder_18] => node [:db_insert_placeholder_19] => 37 [:db_insert_placeholder_20] => 37 [:db_insert_placeholder_21] => page [:db_insert_placeholder_22] => 2 [:db_insert_placeholder_23] => de [:db_insert_placeholder_24] => 40 [:db_insert_placeholder_25] => [:db_insert_placeholder_26] => ) in field_sql_storage_field_storage_write() (Zeile 425 von /var/www/web277/html/modules/field/modules/field_sql_storage/field_sql_storage.module).

On the other hand the alt-field does not allow you to enter more than 80char, which is more elegent since it avoids the error on submit.

Apart from that, I am wondering how the title field can be switched to a text area. Would that allow you to use a text editor?

The other question is, if in d7 the text length of the title field was cut down to 128char or if the error message means, there is a bug?

Hi,

here is a version which also works together with Shadowbox module:

<!-- Image caption for normal image field -->
<?php
  if ( isset($item['#item']) && $item['#item']['title'] ) {
    print '<div class="field field-name-field-image-caption">' . $item['#item']['title'] . '</div>';
    }
?>


<!-- Image caption working with Shadowbox -->
<?php
  if ( isset($item['#title']) ) {
    print '<div class="field field-name-field-image-caption">' . $item['#title'] . '</div>';
  }
?>

To get it work you also need to configure the image title as title in the Shadowbox settings for the image field (/admin/structure/types/manage/[node type]/display).

Cheers, Filburt

Here's a possible contrib module for this topic in D7:

http://drupal.org/project/image_field_caption