By x_v on

I am looking for a module that emulates the easylink module (http://drupal.org/project/easylink) that works on top of the fckeditor. Does it exist?

Thanks in advance for any info.

-Xavier

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matkeane commented

Hi,

I apologize in advance for the vagueness of this message, but I don't have time to hunt out more specific info at the moment but, in short, yes, you can get Easylink to work with FCKeditor.

I did this a while back with D5 and it required minor changes to the Easylink module but it also requires some hacks to the FCKeditor module. However, since then the WYSIWYG API module has been launched which should make it easier to register external modules with various rich text editors.

If you look through the issue queue for FCKeditor, you'll find some comments about the question of linking to nodes, and there is a plugin called LinkToNode that is supposed to do just that, but I haven't done much more than play with a demo. It worked, but was a bit limited if you had a large number of nodes on your site, or wanted to sort them. Easylink basically puts a View in a popup window, so you can modify the view to expose some filters and so allow sorting by various criteria.

So, again, sorry for not being much help, except to say that it can be done!

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x_v commented

Good to know that it can be done! I'll take a look at the LinkToNode plugin, and post back if I find something useful.

Thanks for the response!
-X.