Ticket #1678 (new enhancement)
Allow inserting images from another website (e.g. flickr)
| Reported by: | smagnusson | Assigned to: | lperera |
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| Type: | enhancement | Priority: | critical |
| Milestone: | Component: | CMS - General | |
| Version: | Severity: | medium effort / impact | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Due date: | Hours: |
Description
The current image inserter (well in SS2.2) allows you to choose an image from the /assets/ folder or upload one yourself.
1. Add a link in the image popout called 'Grab image from another website' 2. when clicked, this shows a text box, or launches a javascript prompt box, saying "type in the URL of the image at another website". The value of the text box should initially be "http://www.example.com/image.jpg" to give people an idea of what to do. (I know this may be annoying to remove, but I think without it, it will be confusing to novices as to how to use the system) 3. Once the user has pressed enter, silverstripe fetches the image and places it into /assets/, kinda like if you uploaded the file yourself. This is ideal, since you can now resize and edit the image, etc.
Initially we thought of making a specific 'insert flickr image' box, but I think the above is a better, more generally useful, idea.
