If you look at the demo on the CKeditor home page - the Standard Editor has an image button - you click it an it gives you a popup with three nice tabs - the rightmost of which says "Upload" - which gives the impression that the standard free editor supports image uploads.
I downloaded the full version and when I run the examples I get an editor with an image button - when I click it I get something else - there are no tabs - just the words Image Info Link Advanced where the tabs should be. None of these support image uploading.
There is almost nothing in the dodumentation about that. From the comment under the demo it seems like you have to buy something to get the image upload to work. Is this true?
I'm not complaining. This seems too good to be true. A cool editor for free. Just download it and use it. It cannot be that easy. So I downloaded the thing and from what I can tell it has quite many cosmetic issues and apparently all the cool functionality is not actually there - you have to buy those piece by piece.
I searched this forum for information and all I found was several very old posts from frustrated developers that were nover answered by anyone. So I imagine you have to purchase support in order to get the thing to work.
I'm not complaining. I'm thinking it will take me at least a week to build an editor like this that does what I need (these things always take longer than I think - make that a month). I do not need everything this thing does. But image upload is a must.
If I undertand the license corretly - I can take this guys code and fix it myself right? I can add the image upload - that's easy. I can repair all the cosmetics. I'm not going to waste my time doing all this if I do not have to. But my company has authorized ZERO for software. I cannot buy anything yet.
The CKeditor does NOT support image upload - right? You have to buy some other tool to get that to work. Right?
To answer your first question
To answer your first question, yes, CKEditor needs a file manager. The demo does say it, as well as the download page. If there's any way you think this can be made clearer, let us know. You're not obliged to use CKFinder. Here's more about installing any file manager.
Also, what are the cosmetic issues you are talking about?
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I apologize for sounding like i'm complaining. You have an awesome product and I appreciiate the time you're going to save me. I'll pay you back any way I can.
Cosmetics: the Kama skin - maybe this is correct. Can't tell which tab is selected. I'll attach a screen shot from Chrome 31. Tried w IE and safari - same look.
I'm not talking about a file browser. I do not need that. I do not want my users browsing files on my server. All I need is for users to be able to add an image from their own computer to a post - to post their own pics. All I need is for them to be able to select a file from their file system and upload it to my server. I then insert an image tag into the post with the proper src url to where I saved it on the server. The documentation you gave me is talking about something totally different than what I need. the web browser already does most of this. All I have to do is add an AJAX request to post the image to the server and a server-side script to write it to the file system and return the URL needed to access it. It's quite simple. You already have the UI for doing this - it's on the Upload tab - and the mechanics to insert the image into the editor and manipulate it. I just gotta figure out how to make those changes.
I only have 3 questions:
what issues have you experienced using CKEditor with prototype / scriptaculous as opposed to jQuery (jQuery adaptor aside)? do you have a prototype adaptor?
what issues have you experienced with 3rd party hosting services like GoDaddy or iPage? I HATE it when I get a website built and working and then I push it out to the clients' hosting provider and I can't get it to work. GoDaddy is the worst. I've had to go so far as to replace form submissions with AJAX "get" requests because the security software GoDaddy was using (The Guardian) was blocking all my "post" requests as a NetBot. What i'm asking is - do people have problems getting CKEditor - or mostly CKFinder to work on 3rd party hosting services?
last - if my client buys a license for CKFinder - that's a one-time fee - the 365 days only applies to support and free upgrades right? how much does it cost to extend that?
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The only problem with the
The only problem with the link that sebstefanov provided is that the info that you want is in the second page of that section: http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_file_browser_api
You can find there how to add you uploader and a simple skeleton. A basic PHP script is available here for anyone to learn the basic steps required: https://github.com/AlfonsoML/CKEditorUploader/blob/master/upload.php