Use advimage instead of drupalimage/img_assist

What's the advantage of using this plugin over the other one?

Does the advimage plugin ship with TinyMCE?

I'd like to get some feedback from others about this as well.

Folks, does it meet your needs better than the img_assist integration?

I tried this and advimage doesn't have any upload functionality. That is the big part of img_assist that I need.

Yes, I'm still getting the message that my browser window has lost communication with the parent. This only happens with the camera/toolbar button for image assist. If I don't upload the image_asst plugin to tinymce, I can just use the other image assist button at the bottom of my text editor (no errors-- everything works great). However, if I edit in full screen mode, my image assist button isn't there. So there's a definite need to get that image assist camera button/plugin working correctly, or to have the advimage plugin working along side image assist.

I tried the advimage patch, but I'm not sure about where to make the template changes. I'm using a theme that runs on phptemplate, but do I just need to add the advimage change to my page.tpl.php file, or do I need to create a seperate template file for tinymce? Sorry if this is already documented somewhere...

What about an option to include default behavior? Using img_assist or advimage?

Including either of these plugins with the next 4.7 release is much easier. The issue with dropped communication between windows has been fixed (it was an img_assist) issue.

This can be used as an aid to help users insert images from their attachments list without touching a line of html. However, like all things in the 4.7 build, revisions have to be taken into account:

$items[] = array('path' => 'tinymce_advimg', 
					 'title' => t('Advanced Image List'), 
					 'callback' => 'tinymce_advimg_list', 
					 'access' => user_access('access content'), 
					 'type' => MENU_CALLBACK);

and

function tinymce_advimg_list() {
   $node = node_load(array('nid' => arg(1)));
   $result = db_query("SELECT f.filename as filename, f.filepath FROM {files} f LEFT JOIN {file_revisions} r ON r.fid = f.fid WHERE f.nid='".$node->nid."' AND r.vid='".$node->vid."' ORDER BY filename ASC");
   //$result = db_query("SELECT n.nid, n.title FROM {node} n WHERE n.type='image' ORDER BY n.title ASC");
   header("Content-type: text/javascript");
   $content .= "var tinyMCEImageList = new Array(\n";
   $aContent = array();
   while ($file = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $aContent[]= "    [\"".$file->filename."\", \"".$file->filepath."\"]";
      //$aContent[]= "    [\"".$node->title."\", \"?q=image/view/".$node->nid."\"]";
      }
   $content .= implode(",\n", $aContent);
   $content .= ");";
   echo $content;
   }

If you're using comment_upload.module, you'll need to make a few adjustments...note the additions/changes in the following:

  switch ($theme_name) {
    case 'advanced':
    $init['extended_valid_elements'] = 'a[href|target|name|title|onclick]';
    $init['theme_advanced_buttons3_add_before'] = 'tablecontrols,separator';
    $init['plugins'] = 'table,emotions,print,advimage';
    $init['external_image_list_url'] = base_path()."?q=tinymce_advimg/".arg(1)."/".arg(2)
    break;
  }

...and...

function tinymce_advimg_list($nid = null, $cid = null) {
    if (module_exist("comment_upload") && is_numeric($cid)){
      $comment = _comment_load($cid);
      $result = db_query("SELECT f.filename as filename, f.filepath FROM {files} f LEFT JOIN {file_revisions} r ON r.fid = f.fid LEFT JOIN {comment_files} c ON c.fid = f.fid WHERE f.nid='".$comment->nid."' AND c.cid='".$comment->cid."' ORDER BY filename ASC");	      } else {
      $node = node_load(array('nid' => $nid));
      $result = db_query("SELECT f.filename as filename, f.filepath FROM {files} f LEFT JOIN {file_revisions} r ON r.fid = f.fid WHERE f.nid='".$node->nid."' AND r.vid='".$node->vid."' ORDER BY filename ASC");
      }
  header("Content-type: text/javascript");
  $content .= "var tinyMCEImageList = new Array(\n";
  $aContent = array();
  while ($file = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $aContent[]= "    [\"".$file->filename."\", \"".$file->filepath."\"]";
    }
  $content .= implode(",\n", $aContent);
  $content .= ");";
  echo $content;
  }

Beyond comment_upload, if you want to be able to use recently cached/attached images (before you've actually submitted the edit), then you need to include the references from the session into the array. Notice the changes I made...

function tinymce_advimg_list($nid = null, $cid = null) {
	if (module_exist("comment_upload") && is_numeric($cid)){
		$comment = _comment_load($cid);
		$result = db_query("SELECT f.filename as filename, f.filepath FROM {files} f LEFT JOIN {file_revisions} r ON r.fid = f.fid LEFT JOIN {comment_files} c ON c.fid = f.fid WHERE f.nid='".$comment->nid."' AND c.cid='".$comment->cid."' ORDER BY filename ASC");		
		} else {
		$node = node_load(array('nid' => $nid));
		$result = db_query("SELECT f.filename as filename, f.filepath FROM {files} f LEFT JOIN {file_revisions} r ON r.fid = f.fid WHERE f.nid='".$node->nid."' AND r.vid='".$node->vid."' ORDER BY filename ASC");
		}
	header("Content-type: text/javascript");
    $content .= "var tinyMCEImageList = new Array(\n";
    $options = array();
    while ($file = db_fetch_object($result)) {
		$options[]= '    ["'.$file->filename.'", "'.$file->filepath.'"]';
    	}
	foreach ($_SESSION['file_previews'] as $file) {		
		$options[]= '    ["'.$file->filename.'", "'.$file->_filename.'"]';
    	}		
    $content .= implode(",\n", $options);
	$content .= ");\n";
    echo $content;
	}

Wow Cool
thanks for the post and the comment
It will be a big help to all who are using drupal

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