I did an Internet search on this first and found another forum where someone also had questions concerning setting fckeditor up in a PHP page. Someone responded that this was "well" documented on the Docs page of fckeditor 2.6.4.
But I've read that document concerning php integration and it gives 3 steps, which I've done. However, it isn't displaying in my page. But if I do somehow get it to display how will it know which toolbar I want to use?
On my server I migrate to: fckeditor/_samples, but nothing is rendered. No samples. I get the Please select the sample you want to view: dropdown box with various options but when you select something nothing is displayed.
I can hardly imagine that the developers would have designed this program not to work with Firefox out of the box, so I know that isn't the problem. So, what guesses can anyone give as to why the fckeditor program is not displaying?
But I've read that document concerning php integration and it gives 3 steps, which I've done. However, it isn't displaying in my page. But if I do somehow get it to display how will it know which toolbar I want to use?
On my server I migrate to: fckeditor/_samples, but nothing is rendered. No samples. I get the Please select the sample you want to view: dropdown box with various options but when you select something nothing is displayed.
I can hardly imagine that the developers would have designed this program not to work with Firefox out of the box, so I know that isn't the problem. So, what guesses can anyone give as to why the fckeditor program is not displaying?
Re: Setting up in PHP
Re: Setting up in PHP
Has anyone found another forum where one could get some help with this program? I'm beginning to believe that this forum has been abandoned by the fckeditor developers.
Re: Setting up in PHP
I think a good idea for the developers of fckeditor would be to create an admin area or a interactive config file where the user could just click on the options they wanted via a form to set up the program. One area of the form would be which type of install this was going to be - php, javascript, asp, etc. Another would allow the user to decide which toolbar tools they wanted and this would write the FCKConfig.ToolbarSets["Default"] for the config file. This would eliminate the need for a basic Toolbarset and the need for the user to write a customized one.
Basically, fckeditor needs to be re-written to be more user friendly. Much like what you find with PhpBB3 and WordPress. These are two huge programs that are very easy to set up because they incorporate a user friendly setup form. They ask a few pertinent questions and then it sets itself up. Another feature I like is that it checks to see if your server configuration will allow that program to work on it or not. It also checks to see if certain folders and files have the correct permissions set. I haven't seen anything on fckeditor about needing special chmod permissions so I assume it needs none.
Re: Setting up in PHP
It seems to be working properly except that when I open a page that pulls information from the database, it opens the code in WYSIWYG mode -- so where I should be seeing an actual table I'm looking at the code for the table.
Is there a setting to specify to open the code in code view? Or to display the html not as code? When I save this page it saves my code as:
<table>
<tr>
... (etc)
So when I next open it, it doesn't do anything but display garbage.
Thanks!
Re: Setting up in PHP
Hey, consider yourself lucky. I can't even get that.
I tried using fckeditor a couple of years ago and I could get it to display once... just once. If you made any changes to the js file, like removing a button - that was it. It wouldn't work any more. You had to completely remove from your server and wait several days and then reinstall it. And even then it wouldn't work.
The docs said to purge the cache which I would do many times to no avail. The instructions are crappy and the help here in this forum is the same - nonexistent. I thought that after a year or two they would have came out with a better, working version. But they haven't.
Re: Setting up in PHP
If you're still having problems you could try tinyMCE but it's a nightmare.