Total newbie here... a few questions here..

I'll raise my hand and wear the dunce hat if I need to... I'm totally lost here.

I heard about FCKeditor over on the AV123 forum while asking for a good simple, easy to use editor. (i don't need anything fancy, in fact I want just plain, basic old HTML tag output files generated)

Anyway, on to my questions:

1) the installation help talks about setting a "basepath" ... just how is that accomplished?
2) I'm planning to use this on my knology personal webpace account.. anybody know if that will support FCKeditor?
3) how do I 'invoke' or start the FCKeditor application to edit a page?

again, I'm sorry if these questions just scream 'stupid' ... Really interested in this (the online demo looked nice!), but clueless how to get started..

thanks!
..dane

Mon, 12/03/2007 - 22:57

lake

Joined: 01/08/2007

Posts: 96

Re: Total newbie here... a few questions here..

I may be able to help a little bit but I'm not promising anything. The fckeditor supports many server side languages from php to java and can be instantiated through these but the configurations file for the editor is located at FCK_DIR/editor/fckconfig.js.
[url]
http://wiki.fckeditor.net/[/url] and the forum will be your best friends as you try to get everything going but it really isn't hard to understand at all once you get it started.

I at least hope this will give you a starting point and good luck.

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 18:57

dane

Joined: 03/12/2007

Posts: 3

Re: Total newbie here... a few questions here..

Okay, I have it installed...

still confused.. a few more questions:

1) I was told this editor could be used to edit the webpages on the server in real time without having to fiddle with FTP software... is that true?

2) I integrated the javascript version into my main index.htm page, but it always shows up... I imagine this is a tool only I want to invoke; how do I do that?

3) within the FCKeditor module, there are buttons to 'save' and 'preview' but nothing to "load current page" so that I can edit it.

Am I just waay off base on what this tool is designed for? The Wiki is only so much help; it assumes that I am a wiz at HTML/JS/etc, but I'm not. I'm familiar with it, but not a wiz..

thanks again,
..dane

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 21:03

lake

Joined: 01/08/2007

Posts: 96

Re: Total newbie here... a few questions here..

Unfortunately I don't use the built in save and browse functions so I can't help you with that. The way I actually do it is to have the user click on a link, it sends the contents the editor needs to another page as the contents of a textarea. When the page loads there is a function called FCK.ReplaceTextArea('id') (I think this is right) and that will put the contents of your textarea into the fck's editing area. Hope this helps, good luck

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 23:32

dane

Joined: 03/12/2007

Posts: 3

Re: Total newbie here... a few questions here..

lake wrote:Unfortunately I don't use the built in save and browse functions so I can't help you with that. The way I actually do it is to have the user click on a link, it sends the contents the editor needs to another page as the contents of a textarea. When the page loads there is a function called FCK.ReplaceTextArea('id') (I think this is right) and that will put the contents of your textarea into the fck's editing area. Hope this helps, good luck

So when a user is done making changes, how do you get the final code out -- cut and paste? can't you use fck to directly save back to the website somehow?

confused..
..dane

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 23:41

lake

Joined: 01/08/2007

Posts: 96

Re: Total newbie here... a few questions here..

For the most part all I do is submit it as a form and then send the content to a java action class on my server that then writes the file again with the newly edited content. But that gets away from what you wanted with fck's. If I were you, after you search the forum for other examples, I'd post a new thread with a relevant subject to your topic so people that know what you want may be able to answer. Like I said earlier, I don't use the built in browser and save functionality but I'm sure there are plenty of people that do.
Good luck