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Jul 18 2011

Extending Quick.CMS editor functionallity

By Menelaos Bakopoulos • Web • 0

The free version of Quick.cms has a very limited version of the MCE editor. Layers, images, and formatting were very disappointing.

As I wanted to give the biggest freedom to my client for editing their site, I decided to do some digging and upgrade the editor:

The code for the editor is contained within: templatesadminedit.tpl

I commented the original code:

<!–  <script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript” src=”$config[dir_plugins]tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js”></script>
  <script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
    /*tinyMCE.init({
        theme : “advanced”,
        mode : “exact”,
    entity_encoding : “raw”,
        elements : “sDescriptionShort,sDescriptionFull,sContent”,
        theme_advanced_buttons1 : “bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,|,undo,redo”,
        theme_advanced_buttons2 : “link,unlink,anchor,cleanup,help,code,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,charmap”,
        theme_advanced_buttons3 : “”,
        theme_advanced_buttons4 : “”,
        theme_advanced_toolbar_location : “top”,
        theme_advanced_toolbar_align : “left”,
        debug : false
    });
    */
</script> –>
and added the code for the full version tiny_mce which I found from an example here:
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tryit/full.php

 <!– BEGIN TINY_HEAD –>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”/js/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
tinyMCE.init({
        // General options
        mode : “textareas”,
        theme : “advanced”,
        plugins : “autolink,lists,spellchecker,pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template”,

        // Theme options
        theme_advanced_buttons1 : “save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,|,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect”,
        theme_advanced_buttons2 : “cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor”,
        theme_advanced_buttons3 : “tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen”,
        theme_advanced_buttons4 : “insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,spellchecker,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,blockquote,pagebreak,|,insertfile,insertimage”,
        theme_advanced_toolbar_location : “top”,
        theme_advanced_toolbar_align : “left”,
        theme_advanced_statusbar_location : “bottom”,
        theme_advanced_resizing : true,

        // Skin options
        skin : “o2k7”,
        skin_variant : “silver”,

        // Example content CSS (should be your site CSS)
        content_css : “css/example.css”,

        // Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs
        template_external_list_url : “js/template_list.js”,
        external_link_list_url : “js/link_list.js”,
        external_image_list_url : “js/image_list.js”,
        media_external_list_url : “js/media_list.js”,

        // Replace values for the template plugin
        template_replace_values : {
                username : “Some User”,
                staffid : “991234”
        }
});
</script>

Finally I also downloaded and added the newest tiny_mce scripts from http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/download/download.php and everything worked perfectly!! Below is the old and new version!