08
Jan
2011
New site is out

This is kinda like back to blogging business, part #2.

Drupal 7 came out and while playing with it, decided to convert my one page home portal to Drupal based blog site. Site itself is unfinished, tweaking towards perfection will happen later. There are also no promises for better activity, but let's see.

Old posts from Absum.net Toyblog (car/motorcycle stuff) are imported to here, but posts from older Absum.net blog (2001-2004) are not. Comments were dropped too, didn't have the patience to convert them.

07
Jan
2011
Enabling CKEditor module and CKFinder in Drupal 7

I personally like to use wysiwyg editor in my Drupal instances and the editor I like to use is CKEditor. CKFinder is a handy addon to it, which allows you to upload and select images directly from your wysiwyg editor. However, it doesn't work out of the box, so here's installation instructions for enabling the CKFinder.

  1. Download and install CKEditor module from Drupal
  2. Download the latest CKEditor package
  3. Unzip and move the CKEditor folder to your CKEditor module folder, in a way that the full path will be %path-to-your-modules-folder%/ckeditor/ckeditor/ckeditor/
  4. Download the latest CKFinder package
  5. Unzip and move the CKFinder folder CKEditor module folder, in a way that the full path will be %path-to-your-modules-folder%/ckeditor/ckeditor/ckfinder/
  6. Now open config.php under the ckfinder -folder and comment out or remove CheckAuthentication() -function totally. 
  7. Find a line that says: "$baseDir = resolveUrl($baseUrl);" and is not commented out
  8. Add new line right under it: require_once '../../../../includes/filemanager.config.php';

That's it. Now you can enable the CKEditor module and under the module settings enable the CKFinder as your preferred filebrowser.