Deprecated - Media and document management

Yesterday I mentioned on http://drupal.org/node/32221 that I've been working on a rewrite of the img_assist module that makes it easier than ever to add inline images to posts. It has the exact same purpose as the original img_assist, but it offers these advantages:

- Tightly integrated with the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor with a new drupalimage plugin. It converts the Drupal filter code into an image placeholder that the user can align and resize in the WYSIWYG editor. On saving, viewing HTML source, or changing the image (using the plugin) the placeholder is converted back to Drupal filter code.
- Set up so that integration with another WYSIWYG editor should be fairly easy.
- The image is linked using the image's NID, instead of the FID. That way if/when the image files are regenerated from the source the inline image won't be lost.
- Images can be resized to ANY size, not just a pre-defined list of standard sizes set by the image.module. The imaging toolkit (GD2, etc.) is used so the images are never resized by the browser.
- The workflow is simplified (in my opinion -- that's a preference of course).
- Mostly backwords compatible with the existing img_assist (you can't EDIT an existing img_assist tag with the drupalimage plugin, but existing tags will still work unless you try to edit them).

Please take a lot of some screenshots: http://www.benjaminshell.com/demo/img_assist.htm. You can also download it from my site. It may not be ready for a production site, but it's working great on my test site running Drupal CVS with the latest versions of TinyMCE and image.module. It seems to work on Drupal 4.6 as well.

I'm pullin' my hair out here! I did search. I'm hoping something new has come out since most of those threads died. I'm frusterated with people who throw out a module name without trying to understand what I'm doing. It takes me 3 hours to install it and configure it to find out it doesn't work for what I need it to (also since most modules don't have screenshots).

"Smart, intuitive, and highly configurable, Daikini Photon gives you the power to manage your Movable Type™, TypePad™, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto."

it looks rather nifty -and apperenty lot faster than conventional image attachment/upload - option of image management option for between iPhoto.
would be nice if there was a Drupal plugin too... it would make life lot easier !

http://www.daikini.com/photon/

I have installed and examined as many of the media related module efforts (audio, mp3 flexinode, media etc) as I can find and reviewed most of the wish lists and commentary posted here (e.g. http://drupal.org/node/28667) - I am worried the piecemeal approaches are not converging on a unified and generally useful waying of handling media in Drupal. Here is an attempt at a unified vision:

Features:

Metadata support: We need to be able to read and write metadata. Only the audio module allows writing as I recall. Metadata needs careful caching so we can efficiently support changes to uploaded media files and media files supported externally. Although the libraries that handle it are different we should embrace the idea that all media types (and that includes images) have metadata and provide a unified api. We should try to standardize the names of the obvious common elements, e.g. width/height.

Bulk upload: People already have their media collections organized in a variety of different formats and we should provide import/export facilities because it is too hard to handle thousands of media assets one by one.

Flexible Media Player SupportThere are many ways to present access to media from general purpose flash players to special purpose players built into operating systems or browsers. It should be easy to configure the page rendering to be sensitive to what the browser reports is available. There should be a fallback to simple file download or streaming. Support for this idea seems patchy so far. There are some handy html fragments in the video module and is it the media module that relegates this to a theme?

Hello,

I'm a newbie in Drupal CMS, my question is: When I create a new Image, there are the fields Title, Image, Description, etc... I want to add new input boxes to add more information to this Image, and then I want to access at this with the search module too.

Sorry for my english and thank you,

skarvin

I am considering creating a new module for Drupal. I would be interested in any feedback the Drupal development community may have.

XMLnode is a module that will allow node content to be expressed as XML, then transformed to XHTML through XSLT. This allows flexible authoring, storage and consistent presentation of arbitrarily complex content.

In the XMLnode configuration, XML document types can be specified and associated with an XSLT filter. When an XML node is requested, XMLnode module detects the document type and filters the content through the associated XSLT.