TinyMCE backport

Integrates the most recent and supported TinyMCE as alternative WYSIWYG editor for Drupal 7.

It's a standalone module, unrelated to the existing, for a short while revived TinyMCE module, and also unrelated to the Wysiwyg module.

The TinyMCE JavaScript library ships with this module, no need for extra downloads nor the libraries module.

Note that there's absolutely no admin interface. All adaptions have to be done via API in code in a custom module.

Solving the Drupal 7 rich text editor dilemma

Since the CKEditor 4 module has been deprecated in Drupal, the only way to get an up to date editor with Drupal 7 would be CKEditor 4 LTS - which has a commercial license model with obscur pricing. Hardly appropriate for any site.

Support for CKEditor 5 never landed in Drupal 7, and probably never will. And all editors supported by the Wysiwyg module are hopelessly outdated.

This Drupal 7 module aims to close that gap. It also provides IMCE integration for file and image picking, and some rudimentary Media module support.

Installation

• Install this module using the
  latest tar.gz release
  (or download a dev snapshot for testing)
• Disable CKEditor 4 on profiles for text formats on admin/config/content/ckeditor

If filtered_html is the text format you need the editor for, this module should already do its job at that point.

If IMCE is installed, the image plugin will use that for picking inline images, the link plugin for picking file links. A small "browse" button will appear in the dialogs. Note that IMCE is no dependency.

If IMCE isn't installed, but the Media module is, there's some integration with that to pick files.

Provides a plugin for image alignment based on CSS classes.

Updating

Unfortunately, there's no automatic way to inform you about available updates for this module via Drupal. Neither can you update it via Drupal admin UI.

You have to download the tar.gz, unpack, and upload via FTP (unless you have SSH access to your webspace).

GitHub can notify you about updates, if you subscribe to this repository. But that requires a GitHub account. One possible alternative is the repository RSS feed https://github.com/indigoxela/tinymcebackport/tags.atom, but that's not very convenient, either.

Maintenance

This module will receive updates as necessary, for example to keep the TinyMCE library up to date, but there won't be any addtional features. Notably no admin interface will get added.

So if you need something totally different, just fork it. ;-)

Customize via API

Very likely you'll have to implement hook_tinymcebackport_enabled_formats_alter() to change the filter formats, the editor's attached to. Unless you only need the editor for the filtered_html format, which is the default.

If you want to change toolbar buttons or enable/disable plugins, you'll have to implement hook_tinymcebackport_options_alter().

The file tinymcebackport.api.php contains examples for both hooks.

There's also an example module in this issue comment.

Credits

Bundles the versatile TinyMCE JavaScript library, maintained with <3 by Ephox Corporation DBA Tiny Technologies, Inc. Licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 2 or later beginning with its version 7.0 (used to be MIT with version 6).

The editor has been around for two decades and is one of the most used Open Source JavaScript based WYSIWYG editors, integrated in many projects.

Based on work done for the Backdrop CMS TinyMCE integration module

License

This project is GPL v2 software. See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.