Installation fckeditor for the brainless

Hi everyone,

It is that old question of how to install fckeditor.

I know it is boring for all you genuises but I have the brain cell of snail and the ambition of a professor so there is bound to be some issues which is why I would love it if you smart people could help answer the following:-

I have installed fckeditor as per instructions and tried the sample files which appear to work and when the information is sent it opens up a new page called samplepostdata.php showing the new information although with the html tags. (it seems that this is the form action )

I opened samplepostdata.php directly rather than being redirected to the page by fckeditor and what I got was a blank page without the new info. i noticed that this page does not have a form in it but just php.

I am sure that I am missing something (nothing unusual here)

So how do I send the information to another page such as testinfo.php.

I guessed that i should change the form action from samplepostdata.php to testinfo.php but no joy here.

I would love a simple step by step explanation if possible. I have tried google and cuil and yahoo and delicious but the only information seems to be installing it into drupal which is way beyond what I am looking for.

Please help if you can.

I know from the posts that others are struggling too.

Perhaps it could be added to the FAQ section under installation for dummies or even the brain dead.

Thank you in anticipation.

Kirk

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 09:46

roger99

Joined: 09/10/2008

Posts: 5

Re: Installation fckeditor for the brainless

Hi.
I have the same problem.

How you can save the new data into a file on the server.

Wed, 10/22/2008 - 15:12

chriswooten

Joined: 22/10/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Installation fckeditor for the brainless

I am having the same issue. I don't get it. It tells you how to install and how to set up the page but then what? I hit save and it does nothing. Do you duplicate the files? If I leave it the way it is then anyone that goes to the site will be able to see the editor. The instructions need to be dumbed down for people who are not tech geeks. If you have figured this out PLEASE POST!! Thanks.

Fri, 11/07/2008 - 08:37

gembrook

Joined: 02/11/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Installation fckeditor for the brainless

There doesn't apear to be much support for the helpless. Now maybe if was developing this somebody would bother with a reply. But as I am having issues trying to get this to work at all I don't think I will be able to help with the development at this stage. The installation Docs are not realy aimed at anybody not completely up to speed with various scripts.

I have managed to get images to upload and be saved in a directory of my choosing, but have not been able to get any other image or text changes or additions to be saved and recalled on a whim from the relevant html page.

currently I get a error message as below but don't know what exactly it means

The requested method GET is not allowed for the URL /site/html/test.html.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.41 Server at site.com Port 80

Fri, 11/07/2008 - 17:21

a.m.

Joined: 20/04/2008

Posts: 256

Re: Installation fckeditor for the brainless

With all due respect, when your car won't start, do you call your mechanic and ask him for simple instructions how to fix it? Same thing. You'll be better off hiring somebody who knows what they are doing or you'll end up with a website used by spammers to host their content. There's enough of that stuff as it is.

Sat, 11/08/2008 - 00:06

gembrook

Joined: 02/11/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Installation fckeditor for the brainless

Thankyou for the advice. I usually consult a technical manual first, which is what I am doing now, plus trying to join the dots on this puzzle of the documentation. There should be a list of settings that must be in place in order for a installation to work. THe documentation is rather vague.

For instance the section on Installation in the Developers guide says to just download, and extract to the appropriate directory in the root. And then magically it will work. No mention of changes to files in connectors or other config files.

just wondering what else I am missing now as I don't have the time to figure out what sections of code are being called by various bits of scripts

I am aware of security issues. At the moment it is very secure as its not working yet.

Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:44

a.m.

Joined: 20/04/2008

Posts: 256

Re: Installation fckeditor for the brainless

If you would like to troubleshoot on your own, I can point you in the right direction. Your first source of information is the HTTP log files. You will see there if some path mapping is wrong, which is how you end up with a 404 status code. Another thing that will be very helpful is a debugging proxy, which allows you to monitor HTTP traffic and see if any request contains wrong data (like incorrect character encoding, URL encoding, etc) or is sent to the wrong location. You can get a good one at this location - http://www.charlesproxy.com.

As far as server-side files are concerned, I didn't trust what comes with the editor and deleted them all. I am not saying there was something wrong with the code, I'm just paranoid about code running on the server. You can get a commercial file upload component or write your own that talks to the editor over the XML protocol, which is fairly well documented.

Sat, 11/08/2008 - 15:54

fwhilton

Joined: 22/04/2008

Posts: 7

Re: Installation fckeditor for the brainless

I figured out how to save an html file in PHP, but I have serached this entire forum and can not find any code to load the html back.

Here is what i have for PHP

<?php

$sValue = stripslashes( $_POST['FCKeditor1'] ) ;
$myFileName = "sample.htm";

//Open a file in write mode
$fp = fopen ("$myFileName", "w+");
if(fwrite($fp, $sValue))
    //echo "&msg=SAVED!";
    echo $myFileName;
else
    echo "&msg=ERROR - NOT SAVED!";
fclose($fp); 

?>