G2Image/TinyMCE/Drupal 5

At first Drupal was generating an error within the Gallery settings page, indicating that it couldn't find G2Image - so I edited the config file to point it in the right direction and the error went away. But still no sign of G2Image in the TinyMCE toolbar.

It seems that the config for TinyMCE is a lot simpler than it used to be, I remember having to tell it which modules to include in the tool bar, but that all seems to have gone now.

Mark

My apologies if that's not the right place. I suffered for 3 days and benefited for couple of months from your Community so attempting here to pay back my dues. I am an absolute new-by so be warned and take what I write here critically.
It's all versions-sensitive and I used here the latest I know which are:
• Drupal 5.1
• tinymce-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz (Drupal module files)
• tinymce_2_1_0.zip (engine/application)
• tinymce_compressor_php_1_1_0.zip (not necessary)
• tinymce_spellchecker_php_1_0_3_1.zip (not necessary)
• gallery-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz (the Drupal module)
• gallery-2.2.1-typical.zip (the engine/application and which has more plugins added to it after installed to be ready for Drupal)
• g2image_v2.0.zip (engine and tinyMCE plugin (it has wordpress too but should be ignored))

Here's more about my setup:
• I have Apache 2.2.4 (with .htaccess and httpd.conf modified to allow clearn URLs, etc.), PHP 5.2.0 (+GD, ImageMagick extensions, etc.), and MySQL 4.1.22 (handled by phpMyAdmin 2.9.2) on Win XP.
• I installed drupal under http://localhost/drupal51 and NOT under the http://localhost directly.

I wanted G2image because I needed a wikipedia-like website where photo galleries are inserted first freely then embedded in collaborative articles. G2image (thanks Steven) provided the good combination of a professional (album-oriented) application which could serve as standalone photo website but also could make all the magnificent archives accessible to collaborative authors as well-credited visual materials.

I don't know exactly the problems in the TinyMCE forking? versions, but it's not amusing at all since documentation is lacking on which is which; sometimes a button configuration page appears allowing magificent choices and another that shows (in a hard to trace where did it come from) a Full/Compact/Simple choices with preset buttons that could be adjusted directly from the .js files.

I am providing my solution here for those with a button configuration page whichever TinyMCE version this come from! This said, I think TinyMCE is a bless and I thank all the teams that has produced it since I think it's one of the most important modules for most of Drupal's applications.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
1 - The installation of Gallery2 istelf was tricky for me since it was my first standalone embeddable application, so the standalone installation wasn't that clear in the install.txt and other files. I think you guys up there have to do make it clearer.

2 - Gallery2 seems to be a bit messy in its documentation for Drupal's TinyMCE. I don't know if it's TinyMCE or Gallery2 faults, but I think a single source of info could do this a big favour since it seemed to have been spread over at numerous places. I recommend dedicating Drupal's project page for this since the Forum is quite scattered and the matter is less important for others in Gallery2 and TinyMCE's sites (but I am just a newby, so it's up to you).

FINALLY, THE RECIPE
1- Fixing Gallery2 (Drupal Module) Installation:
In (path-removed)\sites\all\modules\gallery\gallery_settings.inc add the correct path for the plugins, so instead of (path-removed)/includes/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/g2image you change to (path-removed)/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/g2image. This should fix the Gallery2 settings status report in Drupal.
Note: the use of forward and backward slashes in the above paths are because of difference between Apache's settings and Windows.

2- G2image requires plugins (image block, etc. that will be reported in Gallery2 settings in Drupal admin). Make sure you use SiteAdmin after login to standalone Gallery2 to download all necessary plugins

3- download and install G2image as plugin under (path-removed)\sites\all\modules\tinymce\tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\plugins . Unzip only the Drupal related one and not the WordPress folder. Unfortunately, this is not enough for TinMCE to recongize it as a plugin as you will see if you check the TinyMCE settings in Drupal and find no G2 button appearing (Drupal's Modules installtion has spoilt us many newbies so it's time to toughen up and face the real coding world out there!)

4- In (path-removed)\sites\all\modules\tinymce directory edit the file plugin_reg.php to register the G2image as plugin. Add the following lines in order that suits you (editor menu line is chosen by the yellowed number, order in the line is chosen by your order in the file):

This should be enough for G2 button now to appear in the TinyMCE's drupal settings. Check it on so that you can start seeing if it works. It SHOULD WORK now if config.php is ok.

5- Normally (path-removed)\sites\all\modules\tinymce\tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\plugins\g2image\config.php needs some fixing:

This is all I can think of now, and I won't be checking the thread here again soon, so I hope I have got this right and did it justice. I have to add that this is collected from many posts across many websites so I am only a compiler in that sense (and a newby at this)

Salaam!