TinyMCE and image upload

Hi All

Im using Blake’s tinyMCE plugin. I want to add image upload
functionality or
at least image browse - the standard tinyMCE image pop-up doesn’t really
provide for a great user experience.

What is the best route to follow. Are there any rails friendly plugins
to
allow for a image browser and uploader through tiny?

Regards
Ivor

On Aug 8, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Ivor P. wrote:

What is the best route to follow. Are there any rails friendly
plugins to allow for a image browser and uploader through tiny?

There’s the attachment_fu plug-in from…

http://technoweenie.stikipad.com/plugins/

I haven’t ported my projects to using it yet and instead have been
using acts_as_attachment (available from the same developer) which is
the older plug-in. It’s been very good, so I expect attachment_fu
will only be better.

Jose


Jose Hales-Garcia
UCLA Department of Statistics
[email protected]

The port to attachment fu is easy - just take the plunge.

however, attachment_fu isn’t going to help with tinyMCE? or does it? has
anyone done this before. if not, are there any other solutions that work
specifically with TinyMCE

regards

On 08 Aug 2007, at 15:56, Jose Hales-Garcia wrote:

What is the best route to follow. Are there any rails friendly
plugins to allow for a image browser and uploader through tiny?
There’s the attachment_fu plug-in from…

http://technoweenie.stikipad.com/plugins/

I haven’t ported my projects to using it yet and instead have been
using acts_as_attachment (available from the same developer) which
is the older plug-in. It’s been very good, so I expect
attachment_fu will only be better.

Attachment_fu is indeed a much improved version of
acts_as_attachment, both in terms of functionality and plugin code.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

On 08 Aug 2007, at 15:59, Ivor P. wrote:

The port to attachment fu is easy - just take the plunge.

however, attachment_fu isn’t going to help with tinyMCE? or does
it? has anyone done this before. if not, are there any other
solutions that work specifically with TinyMCE

The only way you’ll get tight integration, is by modifying tinyMCE to
use Rails as a backend instead of the php script it now uses (or
split out tinyMCE related stuff to a different subdomain that is run
through the php interpreter, but I don’t like that solution too much).

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

On 09 Aug 2007, at 11:37, Ivor P. wrote:

Ah, that’s what I wanted to hear. Have you changed tiny to work
with Rails as backend? What would the approach be to do this?

Would you use the “insertimage_callback” option and to what would
you point that. Just looking for a bit more direction with this,
but it sounds like the approach I would like to take.

Sorry, no I didn’t, because I’m not such a big fan of the HTML
WYSIWYG editors spit out (or whatever you want to call the junk it
spits out). Take out a few hours and experiment, it can’t be too hard.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

Ah, that’s what I wanted to hear. Have you changed tiny to work with
Rails
as backend? What would the approach be to do this?

Would you use the “insertimage_callback” option and to what would you
point
that. Just looking for a bit more direction with this, but it sounds
like
the approach I would like to take.

thanks for the help
ivor

On 8/8/07, Peter De Berdt [email protected] wrote:

The only way you’ll get tight integration, is by modifying tinyMCE to use
Rails as a backend instead of the php script it now uses

Sorry, slightly OT, but what does PHP have to do with tinyMCE?


Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]

Cool, thanks.

I dont like them either, but the clients…oy vey :slight_smile:

On 31 Aug 2009, at 02:40, Stefano Benatti wrote:

it loads and previews your styles in real time. Give it a try if you
havent, i wasnt disappointed with it!

I tried it not too long ago and still don’t like the way it works or
some of the code it produces. But my gripes mostly have to do with the
way tinymce was written and how bloated it is in a way. However, if I
would have to choose between TinyMCE or FCKEditor, I would still
prefer TinyMCE. However, I found out about CKEditor a couple of weeks
ago (WYSIWYG HTML Editor with Collaborative Rich Text Editing), which is a totally rewritten FCKEditor
and seems to tackle all the problems I have with the previously
mentioned libraries.

And there is a lot of tutorials on how to do file upload using tinyMCE
with PHP, which is probably why people were refering to it…

I am also trying to get file upload working and file browsing, and
will
write some feedback when i get those working.

Converting PHP code to Ruby/Rails code shouldn’t be all too hard if
the API is written in a consistent way and (that’s quite a while back
though) TinyMCE was really flawed there when I tried to get it working
properly. Good luck though, great to see people trying to get Rails
and TinyMCE working together.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

Peter De Berdt wrote:

On 09 Aug 2007, at 11:37, Ivor P. wrote:

Ah, that’s what I wanted to hear. Have you changed tiny to work
with Rails as backend? What would the approach be to do this?

Would you use the “insertimage_callback” option and to what would
you point that. Just looking for a bit more direction with this,
but it sounds like the approach I would like to take.

Sorry, no I didn’t, because I’m not such a big fan of the HTML
WYSIWYG editors spit out (or whatever you want to call the junk it
spits out). Take out a few hours and experiment, it can’t be too hard.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

I also hate WYSIWYG editors, but i open an exception to tinyMCE because
it makes stuff XHTML 1.1 compliant and doesnt throws styles and spans for every goddamn change you make. Usually it writes down html exactly the way i would have. It also allows you to specificy a css source, so it loads and previews your styles in real time. Give it a try if you havent, i wasn`t disappointed with it!

And there is a lot of tutorials on how to do file upload using tinyMCE
with PHP, which is probably why people were refering to it…

I am also trying to get file upload working and file browsing, and will
write some feedback when i get those working.