Photo editor plugin for Movable Type

This document describes how to install the Pixenate Photo Editor plugin for Movable Type.

1. Download and unzip files/mtplugin1_0.zip.
2. Upload the contents of the plugins directory to your Movable Type plugins Folder, using your FTP client of choice.
3. Change the file permissions of plugins/Pixenate/Pixenate.pl to 755 (All can execute)
4. Upload the contents of the alt-templ directory to your Movable Type alt-templ folder.
5. If there is already a cms/edit_asset.tmpl file present in your alt-templ folder, then do the following....
   1. Open the cms/edit_asset.tmpl file in a text editor.
   2. Search for 'asset-actions'. Inside the <div class="asset-actions"> block add the following code...
   3. <mt:if name="class" eq="image"> <div> <a href="#edit_image" onclick="openDialog(null,'pixenate_edit_photo','image=<mt:var name="url" escape="html"/>&id=<mt:var name="id"/>');return false;">Edit Image</a> </div> </mt:if>
   4. Save the file
6. If there is already a cms/include/asset_table.tmpl file present in you alt-templ folder, then do the following...
   1. Open the cms/include/asset_table.tmpl file in a text editor.
   2. Search for class="asset-preview". Just prior to the <div class="asset-preview"> block, add the following code...
   3. <mt:if name="class" eq="image"> <div> <a href="#edit_image" onclick="openDialog(null,'pixenate_edit_photo','image=<mt:var name="url" escape="html"/>&id=<mt:var name="id"/>');return false;">Edit Image</a> </div> </mt:if>
   4. Save the file
7. You're done.

The following screenshots show how to access the Photo editor. (Access is via the Asset manager list view and Asset Manager Detail view).

Step 1 : Go to the Asset Manager section of Movable Type.

Step 2 : Every image asset now has a link 'Edit Image' which will launch the photo editor

Step 3 : The photo editor is basic at the moment but can be extended to use all of the Pixenate tools documented in the Pixenate API Reference. You can change the plugin/Pixenate/tmpl/Editor.tmpl Template to suit.

If you have any problems, email walter at sxoop dot com