Commercial Editors

Hi All,

has anyone out there succefully integrated any commercial editors into Modx? Tiny and Fck are just way too frustrating and have usability bugs. Here are two editors i found which seem to work excellent and are reasonably priced.

http://phphtmledit.com/index.php

http://www.wysiwygpro.com/

If there is anythign else out there that has been integrated i’d be very interested in knowing.

Thanks,
Crawford.

Not exactly sure what you need, but Dreamweaver is popular, and you can download the modx extensions. Of course this would be external to modx, but it is a WYSIWYG.

Both look nice. One of them was cool looking but very slow. I am not sure what it takes to integrate an editor. They are plug-ins, so I would look at the code in the tiny plug-in, then you will need to code in the modx path variables.

There are a few in the modx resource repository.

My guess is that any editor could be integrated.

WysiwygPro has a plugin for MODx http://www.wysiwygpro.com/index.php?id=420

IMO, no can do for either of them due to lack of support for Safari. Cute Editor has very limited support for Safari and WysiwygPro has zero support for Safari. I welcome anyone who is willing to create additional plugins to support these but I personally try to avoid supporting commercial software. The reason is that it’s very difficult to distribute a plugin based on a commercial product without including some of their code within the plugin itself...which is usually forbidden under most commercial licenses.

Both TinyMCE and FCKEditor are highly cross-browser, cross-platform compatible. Yes, both have their quirks, but they do the job if configured properly. I try to keep things as simple as possible. If users are trying to do some fairly complex HTML code inside of one of the editors, I try to find ways to simplify it by creating a template and driving the content via a snippet or the like.

how easy/difficult is it to exchange the current default image/media-browser in MODx for the commercial TinyMCE one? Our customers prefer that one..

Olaf

Quote from: olafmol at Mar 17, 2008, 01:42 PM

how easy/difficult is it to exchange the current default image/media-browser in MODx for the commercial TinyMCE one? Our customers prefer that one..

Olaf

Not terribly difficult. In fact, I’ll see if I can put in a custom parameter that will allow you to override the default file browser call. I think that’s all you really need to make it work. I don’t have access to the TinyMCE commercial plugins...but I can at least see what is required to integrate it into TinyMCE itself.

Quote from: olafmol at Mar 17, 2008, 01:42 PM

how easy/difficult is it to exchange the current default image/media-browser in MODx for the commercial TinyMCE one? Our customers prefer that one..

Olaf

hey Olaf, I did this myself, for both the image and file manager, it is not difficult at all. But I must comment, I am still working on the site, my main objective initially was to integrate this manager funcionality in the front end. I just checked now and as I guessed, the backend itself has not the right permission settings there for users to upload to a given folder, so there are some parameters I am missing which I need to configure, but I am not up to that point yet. If I figure it out I’ll be happy to post that here unless someone does it first.

But I don’t think it would be that difficult knowing the open architecture environment modx offers.

Jose R. Lopez

Will there has integration for xStandards when v0.97 comes out? I really like this one as it has the best semantic markup support, and willing to purchase a pro-license, but it doesn’t seek working for Modx at all. Last time I verified with the developer, he mentioned something about incompatibility.