TinyMCE's TinyBrowser Image Path

TinyBrowser Directories

In the most recent Joomla Update to 1.5.12 the new TinyMCE has been integrated. One of the new features is the fantastic TinyBrowser. No more image uploading via FTP, just use TinyBrowser directly when editing an article.

Sometimes, however, the TinyBrowser doesn't point where you want. Time to edit the default directory paths:

1. Start your FTP client and browse to /plugins/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/tinybrowser
2. Open your config_tinybrowser.php
   Either download my config_tinybrowser.php or follow the steps below to make the adjustments yourself.
3. Around line 50 you will find something like this. Comment it in.
   

   // File upload paths (set to absolute by default)
   //$tinybrowser['path']['image'] = '/useruploads/images/';
   //$tinybrowser['path']['media'] = '/useruploads/media/';
   //$tinybrowser['path']['file']  = '/useruploads/files/';

4. Right afterwards there is this block, which you need to comment out.
   

   $tinybrowser['path']['image'] = str_replace($tinybrowser['docroot'],'', preg_replace('[\\\]', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../../../../../images/stories'))) . '/';
   $tinybrowser['path']['media'] = str_replace($tinybrowser['docroot'],'', preg_replace('[\\\]', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../../../../../images/stories'))) . '/';
   $tinybrowser['path']['file']  = str_replace($tinybrowser['docroot'],'', preg_replace('[\\\]', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../../../../../images/stories'))) . '/';
   

5. Customize the paths so that they fit your preferences. Mine look like this:
   

   $tinybrowser['path']['image'] = '/images/';
   $tinybrowser['path']['media'] = '/media/';
   $tinybrowser['path']['file']  = '/files/';

That's it, your TinyBrowser should now point to the correct default Joomla directories.