By pengi on

I've not installed TinyMCE or Fckeditor for a year or two. Which is currently the best with drupal 6.2? Maybe they're both good...I need wysiwyg of course, and some kind of integrated image management would be great, where I can browse to my local disk for an image which gets embedded in the page.

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markj commented

I just did an ad hoc comparison for a site I'm setting up and found that FCKeditor is a bit more mature than TinyMCE for 6.x. However, I'd say that TinyMCE is more flexible than FCKeditor, for example you can control what editor features are active using a web GUI.

IMCE integrates nicely with FCKeditor and does exactly what you describe.

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pengi commented

Just tried install fckeditor and there is just a heap of sql errors coming back at me. Not sure what I did wrong; installed the fckeditor module, the put fckeditor inside it.

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eliteeggnog commented

I followed this installation guide: http://xplus3.net/2008/05/29/how-to-install-fckeditor-on-drupal/
to install FCKeditor and it works great, you may have just overlooked a step in the process.

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kevinquillen commented

From someone who has dealt with FCK for 3 years in Coldfusion / PHP environments: avoid.

TinyMCE > FCK anyday, for plugins, ease of use, XHTML Compliance and training others. Also, IMCE + iBrowser (TinyMCE plugin) completely blow FCK away.

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pengi commented

What about YUI Rich Text Editor? I ran into it last night and it seems pretty straightforward so far. Are there any downsides that I've not run into?

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bwrob commented

I say latest version of TinyMCE with IMCE is the best.
I am using it with Drupal 6.3

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tmallen commented

Your users will like FCK the best, followed by YUI. They're both good-looking, but YUI does far less, based on what I've seen. I used to use TinyMCE for my Drupal sites, and then the module's maintainer got lazy and decided that 6.x wasn't worth porting. So I gave FCK a try, and it's a great solution. For non-techy users who are used to MS Office, it gives them all the border controls, text formatting, etc. that they could want. Very reliable and puts out good code. A couple buttons don't seem to work though, which is my only hang-up (text alignment, mainly).

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pengi commented

I had issues with both YUI and TinyMCE, and have settled for now on FCKEditor. I'm using 6.3 drupal and tried the dev versions of each editor as I had issues with the regular releases.

YUI, as far as I could configure it, has a very neat but small scale featureset. I ended up manually editing the html quite a bit, but even then the results were pretty rough. I'm using the pixture theme, which is kind of rough too, but even garland broke up in the same places (though different in detail) using YUI. I hope the YUI devs get to fill it out a bit more, it's a great start.

TinyMCE seems to be kind of lame for 6.x right now. No update to the dev branch since April 08 and apparently many of the orignal devs have moved on to other projects. I found it impossible to work with. For example, if I added any of the additional buttons, one those buttons would appear when editing - all the normal buttons would vanish. Maybe I had it miscofigured but with the support for TinyMCE to thin I didn't try too hard.

FCKEditor with IMCE for image management is working pretty smoothly.

I'm writing this up in case it's handy for some other drupal newbie, ymmv.