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Thu, 07/15/2004 - 08:48
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engelbmj
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FCKeditor in production systems

My company needs a product just like FCKeditor in its web content management system. It's by far the best free browser-based editor tool I've seen, and better than 1/2 of the editors on the market that cost money.

I'm wondering what the experiences have been of those who have used this editor in production systems. Has anyone used this on a system of more than 100 users? Has the informal level of technical support provided by the open-source sourceforge community been sufficient? Does anyone have a rough idea of how many end-users (not developers) FCKeditor has worldwide? Thanks.
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Fri, 07/16/2004 - 13:17
jaredcobb
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

I have deployed it in 4 separate CMS's and have not had any problems at all. (Except no Mozilla compatibility, which version 2 fixes!) The largest site has about 45 content managers and there are probably 6-10 active users at any given time. It's deployed on a pretty fast server, so I can't speak to any system resource issues at all. (I have none). IMO there's no better solution for this type of application.
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Sun, 07/25/2004 - 15:45
miker99
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

we have been using FCKeditor in our cms for quite a while. the only problem we've run into is if the content added is pasted in from word, sometimes the editor won't load that content from the database. there seem to be some characters that word uses that the editor has problems dealing with.
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Mon, 07/26/2004 - 12:24
mattrobertson
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

I've used it in production systems for my own cms, where there are hundreds of editors, yes. No idea what the concurrency is on that, but does it matter at all? FCKEditor is a client-side tool. Whether concurrent users can be handled or not is an issue with the underlying cms software, as well as the application server, the database and the physical hardware.

Tie the spiffiest hardware/software in the world to an Access db and ...
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Fri, 07/16/2004 - 01:56
dataaccess
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

We are using FCKeditor in our Content Management System, and it works very fine. We modified it at some points that where important for us, but it is much better as the editor we created ourselfs before. The most important discount for is that it has many features that are pretty handy but where we normaly won't invest our time into.
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Tue, 07/27/2004 - 03:41
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

We used to have our own WYSIWYG editor with many features. but since FCKeditor is well arranged, Multi-lingual, has even more features and widely developed.
We decided to join our editor with FCKeditor contibuting all the features that ours differ from it.
then we used it for our Content Management System, and it works more than fine.
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Tue, 10/19/2004 - 16:13
zwergnas
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

I am using the FCkEditor in about 7 systems.
Some are more or less news-systems an a few are self-made-CMS.
I added nice features like
- "pagebreak" (break a long text into as many pages you like with prev. and next buttons)
- inserting images (auto-generated thumbs) with subline and click<->zoom option
all works with v. 1.6 under php.
Right now i am trying to play around with the 2.0 beta and the php-connector.
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Thu, 10/21/2004 - 04:28
likedon
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

Will you share your "pagebreak" with the community? I for one would love to have it.
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Wed, 07/21/2004 - 14:35
akwolf
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

Hi,

Has anyone of you guys integrated FCKeditor into FarCry CMS? If you have any information on this please let me know. I am trying to get FCK to work with FarCry and I am following a little short of it working.
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Fri, 10/22/2004 - 01:59
zwergnas
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

Yes I will!

Here it is ...

Save the following as fck_pagebreak.html to the dialog-dir:

<!--
* FCKeditor - The text editor for internet
* Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Frederico Caldeira Knabben
*
* Licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php)
*
* For further information go to http://www.fredck.com/FCKeditor/
* or contact fckeditor@fredck.com.
*
* fck_specialchar.html: Special characters chooser dialog box.
*
* Authors:
* Frederico Caldeira Knabben (fckeditor@fredck.com)
-->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >

<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/fck_dialog.css">
         <style type="text/css">
            .Disactive { border-right: 1px solid; border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; width: 1%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: 1px solid; background-color: #dedbd6; text-align: center; }
            .Active { cursor: hand; background-color: #ffffcc; text-align: center; }
            .MainTable { border-right: #e8e8e8 5px solid; border-top: #e8e8e8 5px solid; border-left: #e8e8e8 5px solid; border-bottom: #e8e8e8 5px solid; }
            .Sample { border-right: 1px solid; border-top: 1px solid; font-size: 24px; border-left: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; background-color: #dedbd6; }
            .Empty { border-right: 1px solid; border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; width: 1%; cursor: default; border-bottom: 1px solid; background-color: #dedbd6; }
         </style>
         <script language="javascript">
<!--
document.write("<title>" + dialogArguments.lang["DlgSpecialCharTitle"] + "</title>") ;

var oSample ;

function insertChar(charValue)
{
   window.returnValue = charValue ;
   window.close();
}

function over(td)
{
   oSample.innerHTML = td.innerHTML ;
   td.className = 'Active' ;
}

function out(td)
{
   oSample.innerHTML = "&nbsp;" ;
   td.className = 'Disactive' ;
}

function CloseWindow()
{
   window.returnValue = null ;
   window.close() ;
}

function setDefaults()
{
   // First of all, translate the dialog box texts
   dialogArguments.AvailableLangs.TranslatePage(document) ;
}

document.onkeydown = function ()
{
   switch ( event.keyCode )
   {
      case 27 : CloseWindow() ;   break ;   // ESC
   }
}
//-->
         </script>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY topmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" onload="setDefaults()">
      <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" width="100%" height="100%">
         <tr>
            <td rowspan="2" width="100%">
               <table class="MainTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" border="1" width="100%" height="100%">
                  <script language="javascript">
<!--

var aChars = ["&lt;!--Pagebreak--&gt;"] ;

var cols = 20 ;

var i = 0 ;
while (i < aChars.length)
{
   document.write("<TR>") ;
   for(var j = 0 ; j < cols ; j++) 
   {
      if (aChars[i])
      {
         document.write('<TD class="Disactive" onclick="insertChar(\'' + aChars[i].replace(/&/g, "&amp;") + '\')" onmouseover="over(this)" onmouseout="out(this)">') ;
         document.write(aChars[i]) ;
      }
      else
         document.write("<TD class='Empty'>&nbsp;") ;
      document.write("</TD>") ;
      i++ ;
   }
   document.write("</TR>") ;
}
//-->
                  </script>
               </table>
            </td>
            <td valign="top">
               <table class="MainTable">
                  <tr>
                     <td id="SampleTD" width="40" height="40" align="center" class="Sample">&nbsp;</td>
                  </tr>
               </table>
            </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td align="right" valign="bottom">
               <INPUT type="button" fckLang="DlgBtnCancel" value="Cancel" style="WIDTH: 60px" onclick="CloseWindow();">
            </td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </BODY>
</HTML>

<script language="javascript">
<!--
oSample = document.getElementById("SampleTD") ;
//-->
</script>



And put this into fck_actions.js in the js-dir:

function insertPagebreak()
{
var html = FCKShowDialog("dialog/fck_pagebreak.html",window, 300, 300);
if (html) insertHtml(html) ;
SetFocus() ;
}


Create a new button called "button.pagebreak.gif" and save it to your /images/toolbar/default - dir.

Open your /lang/your_language.js and insert:
lang["InsertPagebreak"] = "make new page" ;

and:

// Pagebreak Dialog
lang["DlgPagebreakTitle"] = "some title" ;
lang["DlgPagebreakName"] = "some name" ;

Thats it for the editor-part.

Now we go on the the output which is quite tricky:

I only can give the example I am using.

Create a function like the following:
You have to alter the variables to your own needs.

function pagebreak($a,$a_id,$b_id,$ub_id,$ub2_id)

{
global $page;
$contentpages = explode( "&lt;!--Pagebreak--&gt;", $a );
$pageno = count($contentpages);
if ( $page=="" || $page < 1 )
$page = 1;
if ( $page > $pageno )
$page = $pageno;
$arrayelement = (int)$page;
$arrayelement --;

echo $contentpages[$arrayelement];
if($page >= $pageno) {
echo "";
} else {
$next_pagenumber = $page + 1;
if ($page != 1) {
echo "";
}
$next_page_link = "<a href=artikel_weiter.php?b_id=$b_id&ub_id=$ub_id&ub2_id=$ub2_id&a_id=$a_id&page=$next_pagenumber>$next_pagenumber</a>";
$nav2="<a href=artikel_weiter.php?b_id=$b_id&ub_id=$ub_id&ub2_id=$ub2_id&a_id=$a_id&page=$next_pagenumber>weiter ($next_pagenumber/$pageno)</a>";
}
if($page <= 1) {
echo "";
} else {
$previous_pagenumber = $page - 1;
$previous_page_link = "<a href=artikel.php?b_id=$b_id&ub_id=$ub_id&ub2_id=$ub2_id&a_id=$a_id&page=$previous_pagenumber>$previous_pagenumber</a>";

switch($previous_pagenumber)
{
case 1:

$nav1="<a href=artikel.php?b_id=$b_id&ub_id=$ub_id&ub2_id=$ub2_id&a_id=$a_id&page=$previous_pagenumber>zurck ($previous_pagenumber/$pageno)</a>";
break;

default:
$nav1="<a href=artikel_weiter.php?b_id=$b_id&ub_id=$ub_id&ub2_id=$ub2_id&a_id=$a_id&page=$previous_pagenumber>zurck ($previous_pagenumber/$pageno)</a>";
break;


}

}

echo "<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%>";
echo "<tr><td colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td align=left>";
echo $nav1;
echo "</td><td>&nbsp;</td>";
echo "<td align=right>";
echo $nav2;
echo "</td></tr></table>";
//$thetextNew = "<br><br><br><center>Blttern $previous_page_link $next_page_link</center><br><br>";

}


Finaly start the output by calling:

pagebreak($artikel[A_inhalt],$artikel[A_id],$b_id);


I found this function somewhere on the internet in a german community for php-nuke i guess and patched it a bit.
you have to play around with it and make it work on your own.

Have fun!

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Fri, 10/22/2004 - 02:35
zwergnas
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RE: FCKeditor in production systems

And here is an example how it looks like when it's done:
http://www.bauern-hochzeit.de/content.php?A_ID=12

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