CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

I used the default CKEditor which submits the data to a database. I got the latest CKEditor software. I have the latest Chrome, IE8 and Firefox. I am getting the same problems on all of these browsers. Here are just some of them:

Firefox 3.6.6
After submitting table, Border, Cell spacing and Cell padding adds slashes and double quotes.
After submitting table, width and height set to null.

IE 8.0.60001.18702
Add tables with 1 row and 1 cell. Type something in the table and save.
After saving table, 3 paragraphs added above table and table gets resized.
Copy and paste bullet list from another page into editor table cell, save, table is then completely removed.

What the HELL is going on? Is there a stable release of CKEditor or are you doing this so people can pay you for support to help them?

Anybody here perhaps know of some alternative I could use? Something that works?

Thanks.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 08:47

mattfromga

Joined: 13/12/2008

Posts: 21

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

I just tried to upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3.1 and found enough problems to have to revert back to 3.2.

Some of the issues involved "Dojo not being found", to the entire page's CSS getting messed up when using the about ck editor button before content being placed into the editor, to "Tried to register widget with id==scayt_3 but that id is already registered" errors once I switch to source mode and then start switching content in the editor.

As soon as I went back to 3.2, the overall site was working well again. I hope they can resolve these issues soon for a 3.4 release.

These guys are doing good work and I think it is in poor taste to accuse them of doing such a thing on purpose in order to get paid for support. Bad releases happen to everyone and this is an open source project to boot.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 08:56

comp615

Joined: 02/07/2010

Posts: 295

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

You should also search through the bug system for an answer. Or post if you can't find one so that it actually gets fixed and we don't have to listen to your unfounded rants in 3.4 :lol:

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:01

sportevent

Joined: 19/07/2010

Posts: 3

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

Yes it is free and yes it is a great product, but how do I tell my manager to buy this if he finds that not even the basics are working?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:49

comp615

Joined: 02/07/2010

Posts: 295

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

Also, in regards to your notes. I have FF 3.6.6 and tested both of your "bugs" and was unable to reproduce either. Perhaps you're refering to the actual width and height attributes, in which case those would be null because it uses style propoerties (as per CSS). The double slashes don't happen either. Perhaps you literally tried to paste in the quotes as a value? You just need type the number in...hehe.

Do you have source code I can try plugging in? Or more exact steps to reproduce?

Lastly, I think you'll find that it's the best product out there. I tested a few and liked this one. My company bought it, and is just finishing up testing to deploy it. Over the course of a week I've written 4 plugins to add functionality, finished translating it to German, and fixed a good few bugs all of which will be in the next release (Well, only one and a half plugins). So yes, there are bugs, but I doubt they pay you to install software. So when you do find a bug, fix it, report it, and help the open-source community grow and in return you get to use the work of people just like me. (You can thank me later if you use a custom theme in full-screen mode :-P ) That's why open-source is better. So be a Sport and give it a try.

And seriously, if you think those are bugs, try to clarify more and I'll see if it happens for me to.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 18:11

sportevent

Joined: 19/07/2010

Posts: 3

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

I know it is the best and want to use it.

Everything I do in the CKEditor is submitted to a BLOB column in a database.
I add a standard table. (NOT changing any properties)
I type some plain text data into the fields.

This was done on Firefox 3.6.6
Part of the source before submit to database.

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 100%;">
   <tbody>
                .....
</table>

Source after submit to database:

<table border="\&quot;1\&quot;" cellpadding="\&quot;1\&quot;" cellspacing="\&quot;1\&quot;" style="">
   <tbody>
                .....
</table>

Notice the table line change?

IE test:
Table 100%, 1 row, 1 column
Before submit:

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 100%">
   <tbody>
      <tr>
         <td>
            &nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
   </tbody>
</table>

After Submit:

<p>
   &nbsp;</p>
<p>
   &nbsp;</p>
<p>
   &nbsp;</p>
<p>
   <tbody>
      <tr>
         <td>
            &nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
   </tbody>
</p>

Am I doing something wrong here?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 20:40

comp615

Joined: 02/07/2010

Posts: 295

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

The quote thing is a problem with your server setup / mysql. Looks like it's doing something weird with escape chars. Check out mysql_real_escape_string(). Almost looks like it's double escaping it which is weird. But not a ckeditor error. You can check it here:
http://nightly.ckeditor.com/5708/_sampl ... class.html

I also did not see any problems with your IE example, so I'm betting that is also a PHP/User error.