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    • CommentAuthorwfiedler
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
     
    Hi friends,

    I made a version of Ben's Content Control with markItUp! Universal Markup Editor.

    markItUp! is NOT a WYSIWYG editor. It's for experienced web coders, but a great piece of work and easy to extend.

    It uses jQuery and a lot of plug-ins. It's not for non JS lovers. And the image/upload manager is the mod from Bob. Works like a charm. Thanks's Bob!

    Have a look here, give it a try and let me know, what you think.

    Wolfram
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      CommentAuthorperthmetro
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
     
    Hi Wolfram,

    Great work, again!

    Good to see you got Bob's image manager up and going too. Did you ever get it going with NanoCMS?

    Can I have a look at the markitup version backend?

    Thanks Pete.
    • CommentAuthorwfiedler
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
     
    Can I have a look at the markitup version backend?

    What do you mean Pete? Just log in and you are in the backend...

    For the moment I gave it up to work on NanoCMS. Ben's CC is much more easier to work with. I simply love it.
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      CommentAuthorperthmetro
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
     
    Sorry wrong password...

    ben's CC is very good, but it seriously needs some dummy friendly installation instructions
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    It certainly is an interesting editor. I'm working on improvements to the image and file upload plugins for TinyMCE (which is the editor in the original version). The new editor is interesting, but my primary concern is something WYSIWYG that generates decent XHTML. Validation is important to me, and most editors don't focus on it.

    Pete... What's the trouble?
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      CommentAuthorperthmetro
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
     
    Hi Ben. I just think it lacks that 'edge' when it comes to explaining how to exactly integrate it and configure it to a website template.

    I'd like to see it have really clearly defined/explained comments in "settings.php" file for the individual setting that are required then be able to run form the word go once uploaded... or if it can't a hand-holding walk through tutorial on how to get it going.

    I still can't get my head around back slashes and dots before back slashes and trailing slashes etc. that affect the configuration.

    I have no doubt it is me as well just panicking that i can't get it to work, but some more "gosh is this guy dumb or what" instructions may allow us types to get it going and then be able to get more from it.

    I've used heaps of php scripts and the ones that have avery clear (for dummies) commenting are really nice to see. I see it often, that being coders unconsciously assume things that are almost givens with coding but to newbies they are the difference between total confusion and total understanding.

    I've set it up and used it before (and it took a little while to get confident to understand what was needed to get it going) and I loved using it, but then i don't use it for quite some time and when I come back I've forgotten all the little things i've learnt previously.

    A couple of short 1 minute youtube videos on how to set it up in a domain verses a sub domain would be ideal (as it would with every other php script :P )

    Hope this isn't too whiny ;)

    It will be great to see an image manager too!

    Cheers,

    Pete
    • CommentAuthorwfiedler
    • CommentTimeMay 10th 2008
     
    Hm Pete I don't see your trouble with CC. It is easy enough. It takes me one minute to put some PHP snippets in a template and it immediately works!

    Yes, Ben you are right. I also struggle with these so called WYSIWYG editors. For a webmaster markItUp is the best solution, because you have total control over the code. And you can configure easily the JS of markItUp to produce valid XHTML.
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      CommentAuthorperthmetro
    • CommentTimeMay 10th 2008
     
    I'll try it again and come back here with what i get wrong... any chance Ben in putting up a forum for us users to swap ideas etc?
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    Possibly at some point in the future, but not for a while...

    I'm not happy with the forum options currently available. Most don't validate, and most aren't CSS controlled. I'll probably end up writing my own, much like the BlogControl and the GalleryControl. I'd like to work on it, but at the moment I'm quite preoccupied with other matters.

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