By Chris Star on

installed and enable dmodule.
installed fckeditor 'contents' in fckeditor/fckeditor folder
set connector to php
set access controls and filters, but fckeditor isn't showing up in textareas.

Did I miss something?

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castellan commented

If you're using Safari, it won't show up, since FCKEditor still doesn't work properly on Safari. If you were using Safari, try using Firefox to view the fields.

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Chris Star commented

Not using Safari. Still no FCK.

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sweintraub commented

I am wondering if this is a Drupal 5 issue. What is the best WYSIWYG Editor for Drupal 5?

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katana3x9 commented

Getting FCK to run seems to be a major headache. But, it's still the WYSIWYG of choice for me, and worth the effort to get it right.

That, of course, is entirely speculative. All of the WYSIWYG editors available to work with Drupal are hardy extensions and can make your site a more usable and user enabled place to be.

I had tons of problems getting FCK to work. Almost all of them (okay ALL of them) were my own doing.

I even jumped in the middle of a whiny and annoying thread in Issues for FCK, and the guys there were kind enough to humor me until I stumbled across my own mistakes.

Okay, so here's that thread: http://drupal.org/node/113226

My issue with FCK was the complexity of the install and configuration. But, if you very CAREFULLY follow the README.txt you can get there. Or just do this:

download the FCKeditor module to your local machine (being certain that you have the D5.x module). Unpack it. You'll find your new folder is 'fckeditor" and its contents should be a single folder (also called 'fckeditor') and 7 files. You may want to check - I've seen threads where some people had files missing.

Inside that second fckeditor folder is a single file called "COPY_HERE.txt" That's where your "REAL" fckeditor is going. I mean, this modules integrates FCK with D5. The FCK application doesn't come with it. You'll have to get it and put it in the right place - the right way.

ftp the ENTIRE unpacked module to your site's modules directory.

If you've got it right, you'll find the COPY_HERE.txt file located at:
your_site/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/COPY_HERE.txt. That's the tree you need to build, and that's where you'll put the guts of the FCK application.

Download FCK 2.3.2 (or future current release) and unpack it on your local. You'll have a folder called "FCKeditor".

The contents (but not the folder itself) goes INSIDE this 2nd fckeditor folder on your web server right here: your_site/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/ in the same location as your COPY_HERE.txt file.

When the directory structure is correct you'll have:
/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/ + 16 files (that's 17 counting the COPY_HERE.txt file) and 3 folders.
Three Folders:
/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor/
/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/_samples/ (superfluous)
/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/_testcases/ (superfluous)

There are posts with this info all over FCK topical threads. yet, it seems to be a snag. Was for me, even though all of this is in the README.txt files.

Of course, you still have to enable it. Administer >> modules
and follow the instructions at your_site/modules/fckeditor/README.txt

Another snag I ran into was my theme. I copied over a theme from D4.7 and when I switched over to that old theme, with the old D4.7 page template, FCK disappeared. In the of my page.tpl.php file I had to add this: <?php print $scipts ?> and refresh Drupal.

Hope this helps.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Thank You katana3x9!
This your last advice should me more easier to find out on these Drupal pages!

I did many hours work to find out what's wrong with IE7 + Drupal 5.1 theme. All directories were on right way. But the mistake was my old Theme I'm using from Drupal 4.7...

So edit your old theme file: page.tpl.php

There is a wrong word also:
It must be between and :
<?php print $scripts ?> (not scipts..)

For example:

 <head>
 <title><?php print $head_title ?></title>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
 <?php print $head ?>
 <?php print $styles ?>
 <?php print $scripts ?>
 </head>
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bartholmew commented

I believe i have the directories correct, I was able to set permissions and access the fckeditor. i think it may be in the settings that i am missing something. i list the fields that i would like the editor to appear in e.g. page@node/add/page.edit-body, and event-weekend@node/add/event-weekend.edit-body.
However I have no toolbar at all when I then try to create one of those content types. Help!