Crispy wrote
FTB's build in smiley buttons? I know nothing of this, not saying
it doesn't exist but this also poses another problem: What if the user
isn't using FTB?
I thought it did since Community Server uses FTB and it has a Smiley
drop-down, although I'm not sure if it's a custom toolbar item or not.
I actually use FCKEditor for my DNN site and FCK has a smiley button
which works great.
Crispy wrote
First off, the current gallery needs to change to be more
secure. This will require it using the DNN File Manager and no more
custom upload mechanism.
Which frankly is another reason I think the Forum should provide it's
own image upload functionality. Users typically don't want to wrestle
with a gallery application to simply add an image to their posts. They
want a simple, idiot-proof dialog with a "Browse" and an "Upload"
button. This is what I ended up writing since my users complained
constantly about the whole image upload process. Fortunately FCKeditor
allows you to specify a custom image gallery script so substituting the
gallery for my own upload mechanism was fairly easy.
Here's a thought... In the forum settings where you configure the
forum/gallery integration, give the site admin the option to choose
between using the core gallery, or using an external script (the admin
would then have to specify the URL of the external script). This way
3rd party developers (or the site admin) could write custom modules to
handle these functions if they want, without having to change the core
forum code.