mililux.blogg.se - Configure tinymce pro rich text editor pro

#CONFIGURE TINYMCE PRO RICH TEXT EDITOR PRO INSTALL#
#CONFIGURE TINYMCE PRO RICH TEXT EDITOR PRO FULL#

This is where Responsive Filemanager (RFM) 1 comes into play. it is notoriously complicated and problematic to use on the front-end. Naturally MODX has its own built-in file browser and while it works fine and performs basic functions like upload, delete, chmod etc. The configuration process is essentially the same as before. Responsive Filemanager is no longer included with TinymceWrapper but it is now available as a standalone Extra. The result being a more unified, feature-rich, easily configured and maintained editor and file-browser. The beauty is that TinyMCE can now be used seamlessly on the MODX back- and front-end, all of it delivered from the CDN.

#CONFIGURE TINYMCE PRO RICH TEXT EDITOR PRO FULL#

This gives us full access to every configuration and plugin setting TinyMCE offers, now and in the future. With this link established TinyMCE can be easily configured from the MODX Manager with settings conveniently stored as Chunks (text files). The installation has simply created a link between MODX and the TinyMCE CDN.

#CONFIGURE TINYMCE PRO RICH TEXT EDITOR PRO INSTALL#

FlexibilityĮven though the MODX Package Manager is used to install the Extra the technical hurdles required to integrate the actual TinyMCE RTE into the MODX framework have been neatly avoided because the editor now runs in parallel with, not inside MODX. The RTE could be made to work with MODX on the back- and front-end but exist as a completely independent free-standing application? Instead of being statically installed into MODX it would be delivered on-the-fly via the TinyMCE CDN, CacheFly.Īnd if that weren't enough, what if you also had your choice of 3rd Party file manager that hooks into both the TinyMCE and MODX but functions independently of both applications and provides a wide array of its own configuration settings? Too good to be true? Nope. Why not avoid all the misery and keep the CMS (mostly) out of the equation? What If. Perhaps other CMS don’t have these issues, I don’t know, but as far as MODX is concerned it’s time to stop the square peg/round hole scenario. The MODX/RTE user-experience, while much-improved, is still far from where it should be.Ī RTE must certainly be the most fundamental feature of any CMS yet it’s often the most problematic. Nor can they be used on the front-end without Herculean effort, assuming they can be made to work at all. But they still share a common problem: They must be integrated into the core framework.

TinyMCE Rich Text Editor by theboxer (free).Īll are far superior to the (old) TinyMCE plugin, the latter finally bringing the much-improved TinyMCE 4 to MODX.

Alternativesįortunately some developers have stepped-up to offer other RTE options: Of course, TinyMCE isn’t the only option for MODX.

Using TinyMCE (or any RTE) on the front-end presents its own set of Fresh Hell issues, largely due to security and permissions hurdles.

Because of the hacking required it’s not always easy for the plugin developer to stay current with RTE feature updates, security fixes etc.

You may not always have access to all the TinyMCE configuration options due to the first point.

As you can imagine this creates problems and imposes restrictions for the plugin developer, some of which are extremely difficult to work-around.

It needs to be modified (hacked) to work within the MODX framework. TinyMCE can’t simply be installed “as-is”.It is however fraught with problems in terms of integration with the core framework and by extension the user-experience suffers. The RTE is optionally installed by the user as an addon/plugin via an internal delivery mechanism.A RTE is hard-coded into the CMS application by default.Using a RTE with any CMS is accomplished in one of two ways: However, as it applies to MODX this is new territory, and long overdue. This approach, using a “wrapper” with TinyMCE is not a new concept, it has been used with other CMS (Drupal among others). TinymceWrapper - created by donshakespeare of the MODX community - is a radical departure from how TinyMCE has typically been used with MODX, and it has raised my expectations for how a RTE (and file browser) should integrate with a CMS. Given that TinymceWrapper has successfully addressed one of the most fundamental and problematic areas for any CMS: Rich Text Editor (RTE) integration, makes it worthy of a closer look. Rarely do I find a MODX Extra that offers so much in the way of features, flexibility and customization that it completely changes how I think an Extra should work with MODX.