Posted by jim0203 on November 25, 2009 at 12:32am
After a long while of messing with different WYSIWYG editors I've come to the conclusion that pretty much everyone seems to come to : use either FCKEditor or TinyMCE.
However, I still don't have a standard solution for providing image uploading capabilities in these editors. What is everyone else using? IMCE and IMCE WYSIWYG Bridge? What other solutions are available? Anything a bit slicker than the multiple clicks needed with these (very useful) modules?
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Oh how I would love an answer to this question
I tested webfm (web file manager, drupal.org/project/webfm) yesterday, it's super slick but it down't work with wysiwyg.
Doesn't CKeditor have it's own file manager?
CKFinder
Check out CKFinder: http://ckfinder.com
CKFinder seems to be the
CKFinder seems to be the solution for CKEditor - but it requires you to pay for a licence if you want to use it.
So, I guess I'm going back to TinyMCE and IMCE :-(
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No Advantage I Can See
On the ckfinder demo page, I almost thought I was looking at IMCE when I clicked on the 'image' button.
Is there something in CKFinder I'm not noticing?
[update:] dummy-me, the first screen comes from the editor -- hence the similarity.
Use Image Assist
Have you tryed Image Assist Module?
henry
wysiwyg + imce + imce_wysiwyg
the combination of these three does a good job with f/ckeditor
I concur
Yes, I also have had a good experience with this combination, using fckeditor (not the new ckeditor).
Software Engineer @ The Nerdery
CKEditor and IMCE modules work for uploads...
All you need is CKEditor module and IMCE module. No wysiwyg API required. The image upload is not in an intuitive place. Assuming you have CKEditor and IMCE configured properly, click on Image icon to insert an image. Under the "Image Info" tab, click on the "Browse Server" button. The IMCE dialog window should pop up. One of the links right at the top is "Upload." You can upload images from there. I spent a good 3 or 4 hours going back and forth before realizing this.
I would use wysiwyg
the one thing I have always hated about FSC/CKeditor is the table building tools. In a year it ago it was total garbage, not to mention you have to do your button configuration in a js file. Has that changed?
install-block
people keep semi-abandoning their projects. We need some mild electro stim, corrective pulse collars for all new project maintainers. Then we could have varying degrees of pulse time and pulse intensity along with each issue submission, optionally.
Check out wysiwyg_imageupload module
Works through WYSIWYG API, that is, it supports all editors supported by WYSIWYG API.
http://drupal.org/project/wys
http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_imageupload
Shiny new, maybe interesting for you guys.
Looks great, will try it
Looks great, will try it out!
In the long term, the WYSIWYG stuff that Media module (http://drupal.org/project/media) is doing looks amazing. Check it out (D7 version) - there might even be an alpha available by the time you read this.
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Media
The media project is without a doubt one of the most promising and interesting projects of this kind. Iam really looking forward to it and would have loved to integrate wysiwyg_imageupload as a frontend for it. But right now, the D6 is "frozen" due to D7, which is where all the work goes in. I think the D6 version will take quiet a while, so i decided to use the normal backend with this plugin.
Anyway if media gets available i will surely plan to integrate with it!
Too many choices
This is tragic - there are too many choices, it's completely overwhelming and inefficient. WYSIWYG is the Achilles heal of drupal right now. This space really needs leadership because its simply too complicated to do something very basic on the web.
I agree - Too many solutions - Not enough focus
You've hit the nail on the head sonicthoughts. Leadership. I'm all for choice and picking a solution that meets your specific needs but Drupal needs to have a leading module for this sort of stuff. I was really liking the look of the WYSIWYG API but today I found out there seems to be not much in the way of file browser solutions.
It's such a common requirement - I always have people ask me why Drupal doesn't come with a WYSIWYG editor. I think it's probably a result of the dev crowd. Most devs hate WYSIWYGs and it's only end users, who refuse to learn a few tags, that sorely miss this stuff.
In my experience a lot of these older solutions have been a nightmare to configure and are very temperamental. Apart from the API but that only seems to support IMCE as a file browser.
Let's hope by the time we're into D7 we've become a bit more focused on this area. It might not be important to a lot of Drupalers but it is crucial to keep non-devs / techies flowing to the Drupal project.