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What is JCE?

JCE makes creating and editing Joomla!® content easy

Add a set of tools to your Joomla!® environment that give you the power to create the kind of content you want, without limitations, and without needing to know or learn HTML, XHTML, CSS...

Office-like functions and familiar buttons make formatting simple
Upload, rename, delete, cut/copy/paste images and insert them into your articles using an intuitive and familiar interface
Create Links to other Sections, Categories, Articles, Weblinks and Contacts¹ in your site using a unique and practical Link Browser
Take control of your code with syntax highlighting in the Advanced Code editor and advanced style and element attribute editing
Integrated Spellchecking using Google™ Spellchecker (or PSpell and ASpell)

JCE is extendable

Install additional plugins to extend JCE's abilities²

File Manager - Insert links to files of any type with customizable descriptions that include file date, size and icon.
Media Manager - Upload and insert media files (flash, windows media, quicktime etc), embed Youtube movies² and create popups³ to any media type! The Media Manager also includes a custom built FLV Player!
Image Manager Extended - Resize, rotate and thumbnail images on upload or after, and create create image popups³ with just a few clicks!²
Captions - Create captions around images with control over the caption container and text styling²

JCE is customizable

Using the powerful Group Manager (1.5.x only) create custom user or usertype profiles with their own image/file folders, editor layouts, buttons and plugin features.

JCE is free

JCE is released under the GNU/GPL licence (the same as Joomla!®) and the core system, the Administration Component and Editor Plugin, are available immediately and without charge. Access to additional plugins is granted with the purchase of a JCE Subscription

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¹ Additional, optional extensions increase this list to include other Components such as DocMan and RokDownloads.

² Access to additional plugins may require a valid JCE Subscription

³ Popups require the optional JCE Utilities extension to be installed and published

Features, specifications, extensions / plugins and pricing subject to change without notice. E&OE

The Joomla!® name is used under a limited license from Open Source Matters the worldwide trademark holder

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News - Latest News

Sunday, 25 May 2008 08:58

There has been a lot of interest, requests and concern regarding the current status of JCE 1.5, and in particluar the Image Manager Extended plugin. I haven't been too good about communicating the status and progress of the project recently, and for this I apologise. Rest assured, JCE 1.5.0 is alive and very well, and a release is imminent. It will also feature one of the most important feature updates to JCE yet, (inspired by conversations at the Dutch Joomla!day) JCE Groups!

Image Manager Extended

Creating this plugin for JCE 1.5.0 has been quite a lot more work than anticipated, and has required some extensive modifications to the JCE 'API', mainly the inclusion of an event systems to trigger actions after events, eg: onUpload, onFileDelete etc. to handle Image Manager Ext thumbnail and resize operations without having to duplicate existing functions used by all the Manager plugins. For example, after a successful file upload, the onUpload event is triggered which in the Image Manager Ext's case calling an onUpload function to do the resizing, rotating (yes, rotating of images has been added!) and thumbnailing to the uploaded file. A similar thing happens onFileDelete to delete the associated thumbnail and possibly thumbnail folder.

Image rotating has also been added, and is available in the Upload dialog, (see screenshot popup) as well as in the Transform dialog (which includes resizing).

There have been one or two minor improvements too, such as the ability to have rollover images and tooltips at the same time, as well as some general fixes and improvements to the Manager plugins code in general.

The Image Manager Extended will be released as beta 1

JCE 1.5.0 beta 4 and JCE Groups

Included in the next JCE 1.5.0 beta 4 and JCE Admin Component RC 3 will be the new Groups system. This is a major change to the way permissions are handled in JCE and presents what is essentially the ability to create individual user and/or user type profiles, each have a unique layout and button configuration, as well as specific editor and plugin parameters. Groups can contain a mix of user types and individual users.

For example, you can create a group for Authors which only has access to Bold, Italic, Underline and the Image Manager. You then set the Image Manager to be restricted to a folder with the groups name, as well as disabling file and folder deleting, set via the plugin's group parameters. For this group you also disable the ability to insert javascript and php code (via the group's editor parameters), and just for good measure, add the user Joe Schmo to this group, because despit the fact he is an Editor, he just no ready for all the features you have assigned to your Editor group.

A default group exists for all default editing user types (which can be edited). Super Administrators have access to everything (always, regardless of what group they are assigned to), and Guests and Registered users are not in any group by default and are therefore presented with a blank editor (you can change this by assigning them to a group or creating a new one).

Here are a couple of screenshots of the JCE Groups Admin.