Tutorial on setting up FCKEditor and PHP

I second that, it could be a lot easier with just a few simple explanations:)

I forgot to add that if you want to add content to the editor (i.e. retrieved content from the database), you can do it with:

$editor->Value = "whatever content";

but remember to do it BEFORE outputting its content!

First include 'fckeditor.php' in the page that is going to generate the final html code.

Then create editor class object for outputting the code of the editor:
$editor=new FCKeditor("name of field");

// Assign the editor its base path
$editor->BasePath="whatever"."/js/";

// Output the editor code:
echo $editor->CreateHTML();

You must take into account that "name of field" must be replaced with your appropiate field name (in the form). The same goes with whatever/js, it must be a path in such way the page that generates the fckeditor code can access the /js folder which contains the fckeditor sourcecode.

Enjoy it!

Hmmm. I am using sample2.php. If I set it like this

$editor->BasePath="js/";

I get the error:

The requested URL /FCKeditor/js/editor/fckeditor.html was not found on this server.

Setting it like this (or not at all) it loads the editor correctly:

$editor->BasePath="";

This leads me to believe that the 'js' is no where in the path.

Like you said, js isn't on the path. I think whoever posted the above sample had some of those mushrooms. =-)
Directly from sample02.php,with the explination of base path even (path to the fckeditor directory(which is set to a default if left blank(BasePath = '/FCKeditor/'))):

<?php
// Automatically calculates the editor base path based on the _samples directory.
// This is usefull only for these samples. A real application should use something like this:
// $oFCKeditor->BasePath = '/FCKeditor/' ;    // '/FCKeditor/' is the default value.
$sBasePath = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ;
$sBasePath = substr( $sBasePath, 0, strpos( $sBasePath, "_samples" ) ) ;

$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('FCKeditor1') ;
$oFCKeditor->BasePath = $sBasePath ;

if ( isset($_GET['Lang']) )
{
    $oFCKeditor->Config['AutoDetectLanguage']    = false ;
    $oFCKeditor->Config['DefaultLanguage']        = $_GET['Lang'] ;
}
else
{
    $oFCKeditor->Config['AutoDetectLanguage']    = true ;
    $oFCKeditor->Config['DefaultLanguage']        = 'en' ;
}

$oFCKeditor->Value = 'This is some <strong>sample text</strong>. You are using <a href="<a href="http://www.fckeditor.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fckeditor.net/</a>">FCKeditor</a>.' ;
$oFCKeditor->Create() ;
?>    

I don't have this line:
$sBasePath = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ;

Instead, mine has this line:

$sBasePath = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] ;

Not that it really matters to me at this point, as I have managed to fight my way through it.

Still, the original post I think remains unanswered. Is there a tutorial anywhere?

Regards,

jimmo

Also, a message about changing config file path would be good. I cant get anything to work with the php version because of a config file placed elsewhere
like the following example:

web root /
siteroot /site/
FCKeditor /site/lib/FCKeditor/
Cnfigpath /site/themes/blue/css/
Cnfigpath /site/themes/blue/js/