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Galleries in MODX

darkvawesurfer — Feb 06, 2016, 01:22 PM

Hi everybody.
Last few months I was in search for good CMS (front-end developer friendly) so I can move from Wordpress because of various reasons.
I really like the way MODX works. Template engine, chunks, snippets, it all make sense to me.

What I was wondering if there is any way of inserting image gallery inside rich text editor?

When I'm making design, my usual routine is to make a "basic page template" design with predefined/predesigned elements which are usually available inside rte. Headings, lists, images, galleries, tables and quotes. And the end users can build page with them.

I saw tutorial how Gallery extra works and building template just for gallery seams not very flexible. I want for my clients to have ability to insert gallery where they want inside page.
Building gallery with MIGX also requires predefined place in template as I understand.
Is there a way to do that in MODX?

Thanks.

Re: Galleries in MODX

darkvawesurfer — Feb 29, 2016, 04:32 PM

@donshakespeare Thanks. Will definitely check out new version.

Re: Galleries in MODX

donshakespeare — Feb 28, 2016, 02:57 AM

RE: darkvawesurfer

Check out the new TinyJSONGallery

+ ACCESS your MODX Manager backend Image Galleries in the frontend with a single line of code popGal('myAnyTextarea')

Open My Gallery

Re: Galleries in MODX

donshakespeare — Feb 24, 2016, 01:31 AM

Take a look at https://forums.modx.com/thread/97694/support-comments-for-tinymcewrapper?page=20#dis-post-538736

Re: Galleries in MODX

darkvawesurfer — Feb 22, 2016, 05:08 PM

@donshakespeare
Yes. I agree with everything you sad. But it is hard to keep clients happy and at the same time maintain only good practices while building web

@Bruno17
This sounds great. I'm still very new with MODX, I used MIGX only for simple content so far so I'll have to explore a little.

Re: Galleries in MODX

Bruno17 — Feb 22, 2016, 01:14 AM

with MIGX you can have a setup, where you can add richtext-blocks or gallery-blocks, the same way, as you would do with contentBlocks.
You could also render the result into the content-field with a plugin for OnDocFormSave

Re: Galleries in MODX

donshakespeare — Feb 21, 2016, 10:28 PM

RE: darkvawesurfer
The plugin in that demo is a perfect rip off!
First, it does not work...
Second, If it did work, I can foresee at least a huge number of hells down the road.

Galleries in between paragraphs? This is very bad practice using raw HTML.
It is better to design it in such a way that you place MODX tags instead of raw HTML galleries. Don't let your client touch output gallery HTML!
This said, it will not be point-n-click, drag-n-drop - you'll need a certain level of coordination.

I use a private plugin that deals with one gallery per article (not per paragraph!) Using one TV at a time. Of course it can be extended to use multiple TVs - but I have not implemented it.
It can also use chunks, as I mentioned in an earlier post. With these, you can put as many galleries in between as many paragraphs as you want (using MODX tags), but you can only edit it form the Manager - you have to edit the chunks directly.

Btw. Is there a tutorial for installing TinyMCE plugins like the one above with MODX?

If the plugin is designed properly, it is a matter of adding one line to the tinymce.init configuation

tinymce.ini({
  external_plugins: "/assets/imageGalleryplugin.js"
})

Re: Galleries in MODX

darkvawesurfer — Feb 21, 2016, 04:09 AM

Yes, this is exactly situation on my project. I have photographer which needs to insert a lot of images in his blog posts via the rte and the images should appear as galleries. So basically he needs to insert galleries where the cursor is between paragraphs.

I found this plugin, not expensive, but reordering of images inside rte doesn't work nice. Besides, I'm not sure if I would now how to install it to work with MODX.
http://doksoft.com/soft/tinymce-image-gallery/index.html

Btw. Is there a tutorial for installing TinyMCE plugins like the one above with MODX?

Re: Galleries in MODX

deyand — Feb 21, 2016, 03:10 AM

I have the same situation for one of my projects. The customer need to insert images and thay have to appear like a gallery on the page - popup window, ordered in a row etc. All of this have to be done inside and via the rte - just to insert the images where the cursor is between the paragraphs and that's all, no resizing, no placeholders etc. At this time the best possible and user friendly solution that I found is the one proposed by Bruno.

It will be good if there is some other solution which is smoother for the users. There are some addons for TinyMce and CKEditor but they are commercial ones and not so cheap.

Re: Galleries in MODX

darkvawesurfer — Feb 07, 2016, 02:43 AM

@Bruno17
Thanks for the answer. It is nice idea.
But the problem is that end users have to deal with writing placeholders. It's not anything hard but the less technical ones would find that challenging.