Basic Question

Hello,

I just installed CKEditor and I'm pretty confused about what to do with it. The "Save" button is greyed out and doesn't seem to do anything. I can paste a Word doc into it and get the needed html coding, which is great, but I imagine that this does a lot more than this...

Can I edit existing individual Web pages without cutting and pasting into the one page I set up for the editor? Or can I tell the editor to save to an existing page?

This may be too rudimentary for any of you to waste your time answering.

Thanks in advance for any instruction leads you can give me.

Mon, 12/07/2009 - 11:28

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Basic Question

Please read this: http://alfonsoml.blogspot.com/2009/08/u ... sites.html
As a summary: CKEditor is a textarea with nice buttons. Nothing more, you must code the rest of the app.

Mon, 12/07/2009 - 12:48

sjohn

Joined: 02/12/2009

Posts: 3

Re: Basic Question

Hi All,

I'm looking for some advice on whether it is safe for me to use the FCK editor.

I'm using FCK editor where anybody can enter details which are then passed to my database. I then check the details before they are displayed on my website.

How safe is this? Is is possible for people to enter malicious script which will affect my database, website or computer? (Is this called SQL injection or cross site scripting?). If so, is there anyway to filter or remove this malicious script (without removing the formatting tags)? Possibly by looking at the text entered when it is not formatted?

I'm just looking at the editor I'm using to write this text and wondering how I am stopped from entering some script or html? (<br />)

Is there any other safety issues I need to be aware of when using FCK editor? <br />

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.