Image_Assit allows Drupal users to upload images into their pages and blogs with amazing ease. Getting it to work on Drupal 4.7 was a little bit more frustrating.

Image_assist is available and ported for the new Drupal 4.7 release but after uploading and installing the module it said that it required the image module to function.

It took me forever to figure this one out since the image module had zero reference to its functionality to 4.7x. I was finally able to track down comments in the Drupal forum that the CVS version of the image module was properly ported to the newest 4.7 Drupal release.

So how do you find this newest and must up to date CVS version of the image module? By clicking on "View Older Releases" from the module's page. Doesn't really make sense to me either.

This is my main grief with Drupal. There tends to be only a small amount of information available on the actual module page. The real info tends to be sporadically posted in various forum topics and user posts and not consolidated or cross referenced back to the actual module. The same is true for the Drupal Help-guides. I understand the concept of user comments; there is much to learn from both user mistakes and advanced user experiences. However, I would MUCH prefer going to a page and finding what I need quickly. Instead I often must scroll through pages of comments trying to decipher if a comment is accurate or if it will be proved invalid 20 comments later.

4/17/6 - On a new note: I have stopped using the Image_assist module and instead have been simply using straight HTML linking to images that I upload to the server. This does mean that I must have FTP access to post an image to an article but 99% of the time I do. I prefer the flexibilty of the HTML insert through FTP method.