Database saves textual 'null' after editing with FCKeditor

Hi,

If you need a quick solution, I would simply check before saving data to the database if it is eqal to "null".
If it contains "null", not a real message, simply skip that value when updating a record or throw an error.
There is very small probability that you would like to add news that contain this one simple word "null", so it should work.

I just want to confirm that we're seeing this same problem - primarily on pages that have quite a few FCKEditor instances. If the user causes the page to submit before all the instances have initialized, the form appears to post with the string "null" in some (but not all) of the linked hidden form elements even though they were initialized on the server with other values. I ended up implementing the approach suggested earlier: don't save any submitted values that consist of only the string "null"; fortunately, this only had to be done in one place for me or it would have been painful. It turns out that the small limitation of not allowing a user input consisting of "null" really isn't a problem, because a user input of "null" is seen on the server (for us, at least) as "<p>null</p>", which is saved without a problem.

Does this issue happens in the same environment - linux + Firefox?
What method of launching FCKeditor do you use (ReplaceTextarea in javascript or do you create a FCKeditor class instance in server-side language php/asp/cfm..)?

Hello,

Can anyone update this thread ?

- was a fix released in fckeditor itself?
- is there a way to prevent this at the instance creation level? (cfr "What method of launching FCKeditor do you use")

I'm running into same issues at a customer's and we can't reproduce the problem here.
(looks like they use Windows XP along with IE6)

Thank you!

I have same problem with on a Windows 2000 system with firefox 1.5.x is there any solution.
I also find out that the problem does not appear if I wait until everything has been initialized.

I created another thread which describe this problem. I found that it causes custom CSS file with @import function in it. When I removed @import function everything was fine...

See: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9345

Hi,

I seem to have te same problem. I do not have any @import rules in my CSS, so that solution won't help me (appearantly that bug is already known: http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/2135).

I use php4, and the following code to construct the editor:

$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor($strFieldname) ;
$oFCKeditor->BasePath   = "/" . SITE_VERSION . "/" . ENGINE_VERSION . "/lib/fckeditor/"
$oFCKeditor->Value      = $fieldValue ;
$oFCKeditor->Width      = $editor_width;
$oFCKeditor->Height      = $editor_height;
$strHTML .= $oFCKeditor->CreateHTML() ;

I should check dates better: I honestly thought this topic was less dated!

However,.. the problem doesn't seem to be solved yet.

Hi, users of slower machines at the company I work for are consistently getting the same errors. The editor does not load on their PC's. They get multiple JavaScript errors like FCKConfig.CustomConfigurationsPath.length is null or not an object; PluginsPath is null or not an object; FCKConfig.ContextMenu.length is null or not an object; undefinted is null or not an object. Then if they save, the previous value becomes a null.

I am not able to replicate the error on my PC, so it's a frustrating exercise.

We are using version 2.6.3 with IE6/WinXP.

Any help would be much appreciated.