Noob needing help on integrating CKEditor 3

Hello, I've been trying to figure out why I can't get the editor to load. I think I've done everything per the documentation page but I must be doing something wrong. I don't get any error messages but the editor just does not show up so I would greatly appreciate some help if someone could look at my code. The site is a PHP site.

<head>
...
   <script type="text/javascript" src="/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>

            <td bordercolor="#000000"><textarea name="nf_editor">&lt;p&gt;Initial value.&lt;/p&gt;</textarea>
            <script type="text/javascript">
   CKEDITOR.replace( 'nf_editor' );
</script> 
        </tr>

While I'm asking questions I'm sure I'll need some help on sizing the editor as well so it would be great if I can get some comments on that too. It seems that the documentation is not finished yet so I just don't have much to go on as I know absolutely nothing about js.

I noticed in the documentation for the old version that this could be done with PHP. Is that an option with the new version?

Normally I would try to learn it completely but I'm under the gun to get this project completed so your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 15:59

saturdaynightspecial

Joined: 28/08/2009

Posts: 3

Re: Noob needing help on integrating CKEditor 3

Helllooo, anybody out there? Sorry for the repost but I really need some help as I've tried everything and can't get this to work. I'm sure the install worked because the samples work fine. The text area coding also seems to be fine as it appears and echo's the default text. I've tried walking through the integration coding documentation several times all to no avail. This seems like it should be fairly simple even for someone like me with no javascript knowledge but I must be missing something.

I promise, once I get this project done I'll learn javascript but for now I've just got to get this finished and this is really holding me up. This is only my 4th site design and my first PHP/mySQL site so things are slow enough as it is...but I have learned a lot so far.

Thanks in advance.

Sun, 08/30/2009 - 11:45

glennw

Joined: 29/08/2009

Posts: 7

Re: Noob needing help on integrating CKEditor 3

Do you have a link to a test form? That would make it easier for others to troubleshoot for you. Beyond that, the only thing I can suggest is that you make sure the path to the JavaScript file is correct. If you did not install (unzip) the CKeditor to your website's root directory, then you shouldn't have the forward slash before "ckeditor/ckeditor.js"

As far as the size of the editor, you can either set that in the config file (default or custom), or in-page. The in-page code would look something like this:

<textarea name="nf_editor">&;lt;p&gt;Initial value.&lt;/p&gt;</textarea>
<script type="text/javascript">
  CKEDITOR.replace( 'nf_editor',
    {
      width: 500,
      height: 350
    });
</script>

Sun, 08/30/2009 - 15:28

saturdaynightspecial

Joined: 28/08/2009

Posts: 3

Re: Noob needing help on integrating CKEditor 3

Hi and Thanks for the reply. I don't have it up on a server yet, just on my local server now. I've got the CK folder in the root but I've given up on it for now and I'm just going to use nl2br to output the data for now as I'm really under the gun trying to get this site live as soon as possible. My company was just acquired and the current job will be going away so this site is my backup plan. I'll revisit this problem later but again thanks for the info.