ckfinder + ckeditor + Drupal integration

i wanna know answer too I will be watching too (I just started trying this out)
I found this link http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/File_Browser_%28Uploader%29
and implemented using example 5, but no luck.

please help, any step by step or HOWTOs to link to?

well, thats certainly no way of getting help! I will give hints, and I call them hints because I really have no clue myself, I am just poking around...

ok, here's the deal, it seems that drupal 6.x with a patched version of wysiwyg-6.x-2.0 (another hint, read http://drupal.org/node/462146?mode=2&sort=2 for updated patches so far) will get you running ckeditor, but what I've found is that it will NOT read config.js in the ckeditor directory no matter what you put in it... probably just a simple flag to edit in yr ckeditor.inc file...

but let's get down to business - here's what I got working so far;;
- untar the ckfinder archive into drupal's sites/all/libraries folder, which then creates sites/all/libraries/ckfinder
- I then created a symlink pointing to that directory from my ckeditor folder ... so within sites/all/libraries/ckeditor directory I created a symlink to sites/all/libraries/ckfinder literally called ckfinder
- in the file ckeditor.inc that comes with a patched version of wysiwyg-6.x-2.0 I changed the function wysiwyg_ckeditor_settings section to look like so ;;

function wysiwyg_ckeditor_settings($editor, $config, $theme) {
  $settings = array(
    'basePath' => base_path() . $editor['library path'] . '/',
    // 'skin' => 'office2003',
    'width' => '100%',
    'height' => '420',
 'filebrowserBrowseUrl' => base_path() . $editor['library path'] . '/ckfinder/ckfinder.html',
 'filebrowserImageBrowseUrl' => base_path() . $editor['library path'] . '/ckfinder/ckfinder.htm
l?Type=Images',
 'filebrowserFlashBrowseUrl' => base_path() . $editor['library path'] . '/ckfinder/ckfinder.htm
l?Type=Flash',
 'filebrowserUploadUrl' => base_path() . $editor['library path'] . '/ckfinder/core/connector/ph
p/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Files',
 'filebrowserImageUploadUrl' => base_path() . $editor['library path'] . '/ckfinder/core/connect
or/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Images',
 'filebrowserFlashUploadUrl' => base_path() . $editor['library path'] . '/ckfinder/core/connect
or/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Flash',
    // By default, CKeditor converts most characters into HTML entities. Since
    // it does not support a custom definition, but Drupal supports Unicode, we
    // disable at least the additional character sets. CKeditor always converts
    // XML default characters '&', '<', '>'.
    // @todo Check whether completely disabling ProcessHTMLEntities is an option.
    'IncludeLatinEntities' => FALSE,
    'IncludeGreekEntities' => FALSE,
  );
  isset($config['theme']) ? $settings['skin'] = $theme : $settings['skin'] = 'kama';
  if (isset($config['block_formats'])) {
    $settings['FontFormats'] = strtr($config['block_formats'], array(',' => ';'));
  }
........
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ok... I spoke alittle too soon. I got it working now, I fux'd up my settings in sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/config.php - hence the error "The file browser is disabled for security reasons. Please contact your system administrator and check the CKFinder configuration file."

I fixed it, using the following settings in config.php ;;

function CheckAuthentication()
{
        //WARNING : DO NOT simply return "true". By doing so, you are allowing
        //"anyone" to upload and list the files in your server. You must implement
        //some kind of session validation here. Even something very simple as...

        // return isset($_SESSION['IsAuthorized']) && $_SESSION['IsAuthorized'];

        //... where $_SESSION['IsAuthorized'] is set to "true" as soon as the
        //user logs in your system.

        //return false;
        return true;
}
$baseUrl = 'http://www.xxxxx.com/drupal/sites/default/files/';
$baseDir = '/var/www/htdocs/drupal/sites/default/files/';

Here is what I use for authentication and dynamically finding the base directory.

In order for the authentication to work you must set the domain cookie in your /sites/default/settings.php file for each profile. You will have to update the cookie url each time to move the source code to a new domain or sub-domain.

/**
 * This function must check the user session to be sure that he/she is
 * authorized to upload and access files in the File Browser.
 *
 * @return boolean
 */
function CheckAuthentication()
{
   //WARNING : DO NOT simply return "true". By doing so, you are allowing
   //"anyone" to upload and list the files in your server. You must implement
   //some kind of session validation here. Even something very simple as...

   // return isset($_SESSION['IsAuthorized']) && $_SESSION['IsAuthorized'];

   //... where $_SESSION['IsAuthorized'] is set to "true" as soon as the
   //user logs in your system.

   static $authenticated;

   if (!isset($authenticated) && empty($authenticated) == TRUE || $authenticated == FALSE) {
      $drupal_path = "../../../../";
      if(!file_exists($drupal_path . "/includes/bootstrap.inc")) {
         $drupal_path = "../../..";
         do {
            $drupal_path .= "/..";
            $depth = substr_count($drupal_path, "..");
         }
         while(!($bootstrapFileFound = file_exists($drupal_path . "/includes/bootstrap.inc")) && $depth<10);
      }
         if (!isset($bootstrapFileFound) || $bootstrapFileFound) {
            
            $cwd = getcwd();
            chdir($drupal_path);
            require_once "./includes/bootstrap.inc";
            drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
            
            global $user;
            
            if (!is_array($user->session)) {
               $user->session = array();
            }
            if (is_null($user->session['authenticated'])) {
               $user->session['authenticated'] = '';
            }
            
            if (is_array($user->roles) && is_null($user->roles[1])) {
               $user->session['authenticated'] = true;
            } else {
               $user->session['authenticated'] = false;
            }
            
            $authenticated = $user->session['authenticated'];
            
         }
      
      chdir($cwd);
   }
   
   return $authenticated;
}

CheckAuthentication();


/*
To make it easy to configure CKFinder, the $baseUrl and $baseDir can be used.
Those are helper variables used later in this config file.
*/

/*
$baseUrl : the base path used to build the final URL for the resources handled
in CKFinder. If empty, the default value (/userfiles/) is used.

Examples:
   $baseUrl = 'http://example.com/ckfinder/files/';
   $baseUrl = '/userfiles/';

ATTENTION: The trailing slash is required.
*/

 // regexpression validation
    preg_match('(^/([^/]+))',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $uri_matches);
    
    // app root directory location
    $root_directory = rtrim($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '/');
    //$root_directory = '';
    // media asset directory location
    $base_directory = $root_directory.'/sites/default/files/';
    
    $header_url = '';
    
    if (empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) {
   $header_url = 'http://';
    } else {
   $header_url = 'https://';
    }
    
    $root_url = $header_url.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
    $base_url = $root_url.'/sites/default/files/';
    
    // if the uri contains a sub-directory
    if(isset($uri_matches[1])){
        $sub_site_dir = '/sites/'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'.'.$uri_matches[1];
        $sub_site_path = $root_directory.$sub_site_dir;
        if(is_dir($sub_site_path)) {
            $base_url = $root_url.$sub_site_dir.'/files/';
            $base_directory = $sub_site_path.'/files/';
        }
    }

$baseUrl = $base_url;

/*
$baseDir : the path to the local directory (in the server) which points to the
above $baseUrl URL. This is the path used by CKFinder to handle the files in
the server. Full write permissions must be granted to this directory.

Examples:
   // You may point it to a directory directly:
   $baseDir = '/home/login/public_html/ckfinder/files/';
   $baseDir = 'C:/SiteDir/CKFinder/userfiles/';

   // Or you may let CKFinder discover the path, based on $baseUrl:
   $baseDir = resolveUrl($baseUrl);

ATTENTION: The trailing slash is required.
*/

$baseDir = $base_directory;

Now the challenge is getting the ckfinder variable registered correctly.

I am using:
wysiwyg API (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg)
CKEditor 3.0.1
CKFinder 1.4.1.1

Now the last part:

1) load the ckfinder.js file when drupal loads.
You could detect to only load the ckfinder.js if the user is in the admin (provided you don't expect general users to edit with the editor outside of the /admin path. I created a custom module that runs the hook_init() function to add the javascript file to the head of every page template.

function your_module_name_init() {
    // added to enable the ckfinder for the ckeditor in the wysiwyg api module.
    drupal_add_js('sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/ckfinder.js');
    
}

Everthing is working on CKFinder but when I go to add a new post and click on the image icon ckfinder opens but when I go to save the post it saves but the image isn't there on the front page. I only see this "[img]".