[Drupal] Drupal, WYSIWYGs, and Images...

Tue Apr 2 10:25:43 EDT 2013

I am currently using Media 1.x for most of my sites.  It works ok with embedding files and images via the WYSIWYG module.  However, I am not happy with my current text editor setup (Tiny MCE via WYSIWYG) in general and am looking into the CKEditor module. Is anyone currently using this module in conjunction with Media 1.x or 2.x?

-melissa

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From: <Gross>, "Christopher W. (Chris)" <gross.364 at osu.edu<mailto:gross.364 at osu.edu>>
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Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:15 AM
To: Drupal users list <drupal at lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:drupal at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Drupal] Drupal, WYSIWYGs, and Images...

I've used IMCE, as well. It can be pretty powerful, but I find it also to be pretty cumbersome to configure and maintain. I'd try them both out and decide which gives you the features you need. One thing I like about Media is that you can manage files directly in native Drupal web interface as their own entities and it has some cool features regarding formatting images in your WYSIWYG. IMCE, last time I used it, used a custom interface that seemed kind of clunky. The nice thing about IMCE, though, is that it looks like a file manager, and it can allow very granular and customizable control of who can upload files and where.

Chris, do you know if D8 is implementing the CKEditor module or the WYSIWYG module + CKE libraries? I'd recommend pursuing whichever option D8 will use.

Chris Gross
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On Apr 2, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Christopher Spiker <cspiker at oh-tech.org<mailto:cspiker at oh-tech.org>> wrote:

Hi Joe,

Most of the sites I've worked on have used the IMCE module: http://drupal.org/project/imce for uploading images and popping them into posts (along with IMCE Mkdir<http://drupal.org/project/imce_mkdir> for creating new folders in the file system) through the wysiwyg. With the ckeditor module (http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor) you wouldn't need anything else. With the WYSIWYG module (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg), you'd also need the following to bridge the two modules: http://drupal.org/project/imce_wysiwyg. If you haven't chosen a wysiwyg editor yet, I believe that ckeditor has been chosen to be a part of Drupal 8 core, and the dedicated module is also a bit easier to set up that the more flexible WYWIWYG module in my opinion.

IMCE is probably the most widely used module for what you're asking. However, I recently made use of elFinder (http://drupal.org/project/elfinder) for a project and think that it may offer a more intuitive interface. It's more similar to the experience of working with files on the desktop. It also offers more features than IMCE but, as a result, requires more configuration/permission settings as well.

-Chris
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On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Bondra, Joseph (Joe) wrote:

Hello all,

I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of using Drupal for the past few weeks and one thing I remember as being something of a nuisance with Drupal is setting up a WYSIWYG to directly upload files, etc. into Drupal’s files directory, or being able to read from the files directory to, say, insert an image into content. My group has been using WordPress for so long, that I’m somewhat spoiled by the “Media Library” it has…

I’ve looked around and it seems that there are some modules, etc. that manage this to a degree, and I thought I’d just toss this out to this mailing list to see if anyone on campus has any particular advice or thoughts on the subject.

Are there any modules, techniques, etc. anyone is using to deal with adding images, files, etc. while editing content in a WYSIWYG Drupal?

~Joe

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