Using the FCKEditor file browser with TinyMCE on Drupal

TinyMCE on Drupal offers support for user uploads of files (via the insert image and link dialogs) through the use of the IMCE module. Enable this module and the upload buttons automatically appear in these dialogs.

It's just not very good, is it?

TinyMCE supports plugins, but there's no free file browsing alternative to improve matters. But help is at hand! Andrew Tetlaw has ported FCKEditor's excellent file browser as a plugin for TinyMCE. Check out his plugin page and be sure to thank him for his hard work.

The installation instructions he provides are not Drupal specific however, so I've assembled some notes here that will hopefully help you along:

1. Download the required files from the plugin page.
2. Extract the files to a directory named 'simplebrowser' in TinyMCE's plugin directory. This should be something like: sites/all/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/simplebrowser
3. From the simplebrowser directory that you've just created, navigate to connectors/php and open the file config.php for editing. You'll need to change two of the settings to the following:
   <?php
$Config['Enabled'] = TRUE;
$Config['UserFilesPath'] = '/files/'; // Set this to your own user files directory
?>
4. Open the file plugin_reg.php in TinyMCE's module folder (mine's in sites/all/modules/tinymce), and add the following lines:
   <?php
$plugins['simplebrowser'] = array();
$plugins['simplebrowser']['plugin_simplebrowser_width'] = array(800);
$plugins['simplebrowser']['plugin_simplebrowser_height'] = array(600);
$plugins['simplebrowser']['plugin_simplebrowser_browselinkurl'] = array(base_path() . drupal_get_path('module', 'tinymce') . '/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/simplebrowser/browser.html?Connector=connectors/php/connector.php');
$plugins['simplebrowser']['plugin_simplebrowser_browseimageurl'] = array(base_path() . drupal_get_path('module', 'tinymce') . '/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/simplebrowser/browser.html?Type=Image&Connector=connectors/php/connector.php');
$plugins['simplebrowser']['plugin_simplebrowser_browseflashurl'] = array(base_path() . drupal_get_path('module', 'tinymce') . '/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/simplebrowser/browser.html?Type=Flash&Connector=connectors/php/connector.php');
?>
5. On the TinyMCE config page, make sure that the Simple Browser, Advanced link and Advanced Image plugins are enabled.
6. Finally, it seems you will have to disable the IMCE module (if you're using it), as this will override the new file browser you've just installed. If you figure out how to get this working without disabling the IMCE module, let me know!

If all goes well, clicking the upload buttons in the image and link dialogs should now give you the new FCK file browser.