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

Tue Apr 2 10:34:28 EDT 2013

I've used WYSIWYG + CKEditor with Media 2.x and it worked great, as long as your comfortable running a development version. They've been working on 2.x for awhile. I'm surprised a stable version hasn't been released.

Edit looks interesting. I know D8 was originally going to use Aloha for in-place editing, but they abandoned it and switched to CKEditor. According to the project page, Edit will be shipping with D8, so if it only works with the CKEditor module and not WYSIWYG, that would indicate that the former will be implemented in D8, unless that's just a workaround for D7.

And elFinder looks kind of nice, but it doesn't seemed to be actively maintained. Last commit was a year ago, which is a bit troubling, especially with D8 around the corner.

Chris Gross
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On Apr 2, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Christopher Spiker <cspiker at oh-tech.org<mailto:cspiker at oh-tech.org>>
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Chris, as I understand it the core development team will be integrating ckeditor 4 directly into core, as it now has the capability of inline editing (http://buytaert.net/from-aloha-to-ckeditor).

If anyone would like to get a taste of the D8 experience now in D7, take a look at the in-place editing module (http://drupal.org/project/edit) which backports a lot of the D8 inline-editing work. It only works together with the ckeditor standalone module, which might be another good reason to adopt that as the wysiwyg option of choice.

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On Apr 2, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Gross, Christopher W. (Chris) wrote:

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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The Ohio State University
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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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