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Hi all,

on various Wordpress sites I installed the Soderlind imagemanager (http://www.soderlind.no/archives/2006/01/03/imagemanager-20/#more-229), because it is the perfect solution to allow not so net savvy people to upload pictures into articles with a variety of options as to what is how displayed and to build basic small galleries. It's easy, intuitive and everyone so far liked it and doesn't want to change.

Now I am preparing a CMSMS installation for client use and find myself sorely missing Imagemanager. The one coming with CMSMS is partially there, but only partially, e.g. the linked thumbs with popups is something which really faciliates things for the average blogger or author.

So is there a chance that one of the coders here could adapt Imagemanager to CMSMS?

Greetings

Kizil

Wei Zhuo/Paul Moers ImageManager is part of CMSMS core see

\lib\filemanager\ImageManager

if you want to use it as part of your WYSIWYG editor  as in Wordpress it is a simple plugin for FCK go to

http://www.saulmade.nl/FCKeditor/FCKPlugins.php

there are fairly good instructions on how to install ImageManager on this site but if you need step by step instructions let me know.

Hi,

Soderlind's imagemanager works absolutely independently of any specific wysiwyg editor, it's a standalone WP plugin which - on WP - replaces the WP file upload/imagemanager. It can work inside any of the installed editors, wysiwyg or plain text/html.

As to the FCKimagemanager, judging from what I see on that website it does not have the very functions that I prefer Soderlind's for. So even if I foisted this enormously bloated editor on newbies, which I actually wouldn't dare do, it still hasn't the relevant functions.

So what I wonder is how difficult it would be to replace the current imagemanager with Soderlind's or at least add the Soderlind one with the possibility to entirely switch off the other.

Greetings

Kizil

Per Soderlind wrote a plugin for Wordpress using Wei Zhuo's ImageManager and TinyMCE.
The same ImageManager is adapted for use in CMSMS's own image manager. The ImageManager plugin for FCK has pretty much identical editing/upload functionality and interface to that in Wordpress.
Yes most WYSWIG editors fully loaded would look pretty overwhelming to a newbie that is why it is designed that the toolbars can be  modified or reduced easily and quickly to suit the end user.

Hi,

well, he didn't just take the imagemanager and use it as is. If you checked the current functions of the Soderlind version, you'd notice that it far surpasses the one it was originally based on and btw still surpasses it, I just today compared, there's a marked difference.

At the time I chose Per's imagemanager over the others available for WP (and there are quite a few), the main reason was its stability, its ease of use even for pure beginners at blogging/publishing to the net, it's total indepence of editors and of course those very functions which mark it as nearly an own little gallery script.

You e.g. can preset a certain thumbnail size (either width or height, pixel-exact) suiting your wishes and your template, and this you can do with ease, you can configure where the thumbs will be saved and what name/extension they get. You can set where the images are uploaded, what style and basic functions they have, what alignment, you can choose the way images are manipulated, and images are validated. You can insert the image as an image, as a thumb with pop-up, as a thumb with link, as a link to the image and as just the thumbnail. You can assign a border and V/H-space directly inside the imagemanager and you can write an own style/class there as well.

All of this can be set by the admin and needs not ever be touched by the user/client. I don't see half of that in the FCK-imagemanager. I have total newbie clients who - with this manager - within a few days were doing their own uploads, their own galleries and even garnered pedigrees with linked thumbs in a most professional looking manner, all arriving there on their own and without any whatsoever knowledge of html. It's the sole image software I came across which managed to do that for clients. And yes, I also had FCKeditor including its imagemanager installed on a couple of client sites in the past. It didn't work out half as well.

That's precisely why I am asking whether there's anyone willing to adapt Soderlind's imagemanager to work as a module in CMSMS.

Greetings

Kizil

Hi,

pushing this to the front again - no one among the CMSMS coders willing and able to adapt this imagemanager to CMSMS?

Greetings

Kizil

If you wanna get such a module badly feel free to ask in commercial board

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... ,34.0.html