FCKEditor not showing up - new installation

Did you follow the readme step by step?

* In Administer -> User management -> Access control, your role should
have at least "access fckeditor" permission (5.x-2.x) or one of the following in 5.x-1.x: use default fckeditor, use advanced fckeditor.
* In Administer -> Site configuration -> FCKeditor, you should adjust
profiles to your needs (e.g. enable FCKeditor by default)... or adjust FCKeditor configuration in 5.x-1.x.

Last but not least, what browser do you use?

Yes - I have followed all of the steps closely and have turned full permissions on in Access control for the role that I log in as (site admin). I am using Firefox 2.0 as my browser but have the same problem in IE7. In Site Configuration, FCKEditor, I have the following options set:

Default toolbar: Drupal Basic
Advanced toolbar: Drupal Full
(I've tried every combination of these and nothing works)

Visibility Settings:
Minimum Rows: 1
(FCKeditor will be triggered if the textarea has more rows than entered here. Enter '1' if you do not want to use this feature.)

Use inclusion or exclusion mode:
Exclude fields, will disable the editor on all selected fields

Advanced Settings:
Start the toolbar expanded (I've tried toggling this and nothing shows up)
Width: 100%

File Browser Settings:

I haven't turned these on yet as I am just trying to get the editor to show up.

If I set the editor to 'pop up', I get a link that says "Open Rich Text Editor" and if I click on it, it opens a big blank window with 'OK' or 'Cancel' buttons (neither of which do anything).

The bizarre thing is that it shows up in the code when I 'create content' page - here are the relevant pieces of the page:

@import "/modules/node/node.css";
@import "/modules/system/defaults.css";
@import "/modules/system/system.css";
@import "/modules/user/user.css";

@import "/themes/garland/style.css";
@import "/files/color/garland-f53ec0f6/style.css";

@import "/themes/garland/print.css";

@import "/themes/garland/fix-ie.css";

______________

var oFCKeditor_edit_body = new FCKeditor( 'edit-body' );
oFCKeditor_edit_body.BasePath = '/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/';
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Config['CustomConfigurationsPath'] = '/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.config.js';
oFCKeditor_edit_body.ToolbarSet = 'Default';
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Height = '480';
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Width = '100%';
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Config['LinkBrowser'] = false;
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Config['ImageBrowser'] = false;
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Config['FlashBrowser'] = false;
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Config['LinkUpload'] = false;
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Config['ImageUpload'] = false;
oFCKeditor_edit_body.Config['FlashUpload'] = false;

If I view the source on the pop up menu page, this is what I get:

FCKeditor

// #### URLParams: holds all URL passed parameters (like ?Param1=Value1&Param2=Value2)
var FCKURLParams = new Object() ;

var aParams = document.location.search.substr(1).split('&') ;
for ( var i = 0 ; i < aParams.length ; i++ )
{
var aParam = aParams[i].split('=') ;
var sParamName = aParam[0] ;
var sParamValue = aParam[1] ;

FCKURLParams[ sParamName ] = sParamValue ;
}

// It is preferable to have the oFCKeditor object defined in the opener window,
// so all the configurations will be there. In this way the popup doesn't need
// to take care of the configurations "clonning".
var oFCKeditor = window.opener[ FCKURLParams[ 'var' ] ] ;
oFCKeditor.Width = '100%' ;
oFCKeditor.Height = '100%' ;
oFCKeditor.Value = window.opener.document.getElementById( FCKURLParams[ 'el' ] ).value ;

function Ok()
{
var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance( oFCKeditor.InstanceName ) ;

window.opener.document.getElementById( FCKURLParams[ 'el' ] ).value = oEditor.GetXHTML( true ) ; // "true" means you want it formatted.

window.opener.focus() ;
window.close() ;
}

function Cancel()
{
var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance( oFCKeditor.InstanceName ) ;

if ( oEditor.IsDirty() )
{
if ( !confirm( 'Are you sure you want to cancel? Your changes will be lost.' ) )
return ;
}

window.close() ;
}

// For now, it is not possible to retrieve the output HTML, so we must do it by
// hand. Future implementations of FCKeditor could bring a
// oFCKeditor.CreateHtml() function.
document.write( '' ) ;
document.write( oFCKeditor._GetConfigHtml() ) ;
document.write( oFCKeditor._GetIFrameHtml() ) ;

Hopefully that helps narrow it down - if not, let me know and I'll provide you with a username/password to log in and see what you can figure out.

Thanks for your help.

Shelley :)

Sorry - I had pasted the 'script' source which was blocked by Drupal - here is what I meant to show you that shows up in the source when I create a new page:

script type="text/javascript" src="/misc/jquery.js"
script type="text/javascript" src="/misc/drupal.js"
script type="text/javascript" src="/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor.js"
script type="text/javascript" src="/misc/autocomplete.js"
script type="text/javascript" src="/misc/collapse.js"
style type="text/css" media="print">@import "/themes/garland/print.css";

I had the same problem
create a role and add yourself to it (assuming you are the superuser)
I was super user, and until I added a role and added myself to it I could not get the editor to show.

Hope this helps.

Now I am going to re-download the latest fck beta, I thought that was the problem.

@sfinerty - were you able to solve the problem you described?
Sorry for taking so long to reply. If you still have problems with getting FCKeditor module to work, please send me a private message with a link where I could check it.

EDIT -- Never mind I went with a different WYSIWYG editor and that gave me no problems a very clean install. Never mind and thank you. Go ahead and close the issue again.

----------------

Sorry to open this again, I am having the same problem. I just cannot get the FCK editor to default and replace the plian text body area.

1.) Yes, I read the Read Me SEVERAL TIMES, followed all the steps. (And what a chore that is to read too since it's a jumble and word wrap escapes the creator of this file to make it easier to read, line breaks are your friend when creating an instructional file.)
2.) The installation is installed correctly and I have installed this before on 2 other earlier version drupal sites I created and I had zero issues with this previously
3.) No matter how I change the very confusing exclude/include fields nothing helps.
4.) I've checked all permissions those are correct
5.) I've added an Administrator Role and added myself to it to see if that helped as suggested above. -- it didn't
6.) I've tried changing themes to Garland and bluemarine to see if the theme was the issue -- it wasn't
7.) I tried emptying the cache in my browser (Firefox) -- nothing
8.) all permissions, roles and module enabling are correct....
9.) Several Cigarettes consumed in frustration while I read all seven pages of forum help threads and tried several earlier suggestions which have not helped and I am left begging for more assistance.

I still get the basic plain text body area whereas before the FCK editor would replace this.
I'm stumped and duped... help, please. The site that I am having a problem with is located here: http://armstronglab.com (Using the the 5.3 version of drupal installed using fantastico and fckeditor-5.x-2.1-beta2 FCK editor)

a sample site where this is working fine is here: http://fablespinner.com (using a much older version of both drupal and fck editor) (Login: guest password: guest)

Help, I can't proceed with the rest of this site design without the rich text editor, don't make me code dynamic pages by hand in notepad!. Please. *cries*

Thanks.

I copying the data using "mkdir -p /var/www/html/soak/modules/fckeditor;
cp -r fckeditor/* /var/www/html/soak/modules/fckeditor"

1. Enable the module as usual from Drupal's admin pages. - Done
2. Grant permissions for use of FCKeditor in Administer > User Management > Access Control - Granted all access to authenticated user
3. Under Administer > Settings > FCKeditor, create the fckeditor profiles.
Attempted this step and keep getting the following mesasage:
"checking for modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckconfig.js
The FCKeditor component is not installed correctly. Please go to the FCKeditor homepage to download the latest version. After that you must extract the files to /soak/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/ and make sure that the directory /soak/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor and the file /soak/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor.js exist. Refer to the readme.txt for more information."
I searched for fckconfig.js and couldn't find it either in the modules directories or in the installation. Is this file something I am supposed to create?

mfnlamp1 soak $ find /var/www/html/soak/modules/. -name fckconfig.js
mfnlamp1 soak $

This may seem kind of weird, but it worked for me.
Download both of the following versions of fckeditor

tar xvfz fckeditor-5.x-2.1-beta2.tar.gz
mkdir /var/www/html/soak/modules/fckeditor
cp -r fckeditor/* /var/www/html/soak/modules/fckeditor
rm -rf fckeditor
tar xvfz FCKeditor_2.5.1.tar.gz
cp -r fckeditor /var/www/html/soak/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor

If you look in the 5.x-2.1-beta2 version it is looking for file "modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckconfig.js" which does not exist.
However it and all the other files listed in text file below. Since the text file below also indicated "among others" I decided try combining the two versions and it worked.

mfnlamp1 src $ cat fckeditor/fckeditor/COPY_HERE.txt
Go to http://www.fckeditor.net and download the latest version. Then
uncompress the contents of the "fckeditor" directory of the download file to
this folder (modules/fckeditor/fckeditor).

The contents of this directory should include the following files among others:
editor (a directory)
fckeditor.js
fckconfig.js
fckstyles.xml
fcktemplates.xml

In each profile you can choose which textareas will be replaced by FCKeditor,
select default toolbar and configure some more advanced settings

I am experiencing this behaviour as well ... on a few sites that I manage.

What I've been able to reproduce is a behaviour which I would summarize as, 'FCKeditor isn't displayed to the super user account'. When I sign in as an normal 'athenticated user', the rich text toolbar appears. Sign out and back in as super user, and nothing.

Same experience. FCKEditor is not enabled for the root user unless he/she is a member of a role for which fckeditor access has been granted. Drupal 6.1.

I had the same issue. This worked for me:

Go to Administer > Site Configuration > FCKEditor and delete the Global Profile.

I do not think that deleting the Global Profile is really the right way to go. Do not do this unless you really know what you're doing.
Note that it holds the default values where FCKeditor should be disabled - a list of names where HTML is not allowed (and thus FCKeditor is not welcome).

Since 6.1-1.1 (stable), FCKeditor is enabled for root user by default, even if there is no role with "access fckeditor" permission.
I've changed it, so that it was easier to use FCKeditor at the beginning, without making any extra steps.

If you have assigned "access fckeditor" permissions, make sure that:
- in "Home › Administer › Site configuration -> FCKeditor settings" roles with "access FCKeditor" permissions are assigned to FCKeditor profiles.
- you have set the right "Role precedence" in Global Profile
- If "Allow users to customize FCKeditor appearance" is set to true, go to "My account" and take a look at "Rich Text Editor settings"

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I have been having problems getting FCKeditor running. It seems to work on any Intel Mac/Windows machine, but if you have a G3/G4/G5 running Mac OS X 10.5.2 when ever you do a

you get back this :

Mozilla/5.0 (000000000; 0; 000 000 00 0 000000; 00000; 00000000000) 00000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000000000

(using Safari 3.1, Netscape 9, Firefox 2/3)

Has anyone got any idea on how to work around this?

Well, I've been trying to just make the thing work. But after three frustrating days of scouring the forums and trying everything suggested, I'm about to give up and going back to an earlier Drupal version.

Instructions for this module are not clear enough, forcing me to reinstall over 10 times. And in the end, FCKeditor just will not display... At all. No body field.

I've been using tinyMCE for all my other Drupals, but I'm using the latest Drupal 6 and the latest FCKeditor - because there is no choice. But it doesn't work.

I love Drupal, but this had been the most infuriating experience I've had with Drupal in the last few years.

Is there anyone out there who has fixed this issue for 6? Or can offer advice?

thanks in advance...
allanx

allanx@radicalhack.com

@aocallwill - I'm not a Mac OS X expert, but this looks like a firewall or antivirus software issue. Take a look at modules\fckeditor\fckeditor\fckeditor.php. There is a FCKeditor_IsCompatibleBrowser function. Adjust it to your needs.

@allanx - I've send you a PM. For anyone interested: if you are having problems with installing FCKeditor and you were unable to fix it by yourself after looking at tickets, forums etc, please send me a private message using contact form with a link to your site, maybe I'll be able to help you.

If I'm not wrong once again, there is a serious bug in fckeditor.install file in 6.x-1.1 version.
There should be $arr['excl_fields'] instead of $arr['excl_list'], just like it is done in 5.x-2.1 module.
So there is no default global exclude list in 6.x-1.1.

Another thing that could make things more confusing is that when in "Visibility settings", "include" mode was set, it was possible to leave "Fields to exclude/include" and "Paths to exclude/include" empty. This way it was possible to create a profile where FCKeditor couldn't appear.

This should be fixed in CVS, the updated package should be avilable after midnight as a development release.

@wwalc - ain't a firewall or anti-virus issue. Have 4 Macs, 2 Intel and 2 G4/G5 machines. And this problem only affects the G4/G5 machines. Already knew about the modules\fckeditor\fckeditor\fckeditor.php, and already amended it, once I amended it my G4/G5 machines worked fine.

Plus also running the developer module 6.x-1.x-dev and FCKeditor 2.6 Beta with no problems.

Just thought that if you have having problems running FCKeditor that using the php code might help.

Thanks wwalc.

After your suggestion, I have installed the March 27 snapshot version:
fckeditor-6.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz - from here: http://drupal.org/node/192505

FCK editor loads and seems to work okay now and appears when creating content. BUT! When I go back to edite - the editor soes not show.

The problem reported by allanx in the last post has been solved.
It was caused by choosing the include mode in the FCKeditor profile and not adding all paths where it should appear.

Hi wwalc

I'm having the same problem as the other guys. 10 minutes ago, I tried to install the newest version at http://drupal.org/node/192505 but it still does'nt work. The editor does not appear in the textareas.

Like all the others my installation and settings are correct. I'm using Drupal 6.1, Garland, IE 7.0

Any suggestions?

Regards

In my installation it is shown up with Firefox v2, IE v6.0 but not with opera v9.1
Windows, drupal 6.1, garland, fckeditor v1.1, last stable version of fckeditor

FCKeditor is compatible with Opera 9.5+ (currently it is in beta stage).

vicamamia: send me a PM with a link to your test site if possible where I could check it.

Hi wwalc,
I seem to be having the same problem as other folks with getting FCKEditor to appear. I have double checked and triple checked all my settings, directory structure, etc. I don't get any errors but the editor just simply doesn't appear. Any ideas?

I'm using this site as my "test" site: htttp://www.dyeswebsite.com/drupal.

I'm running Drupal 6.1 with the latest dev build of FCKEditor module. And I'm running FCKEditor 2.6.

Thank you,
Mark

I just found-out something interesting in enabling FCKeditor.
I just installed it and it wouldn't show-up in text edit.
After reading previous comments, I went to "my account" and realized that, although I'm the admin, my role was only checked as "authenticated user". The boxes for other roles were all unchecked. So I checked the boxes for the roles that I allowed for FCK, and it started working.

I'm using D6.2 and have been using Drupal since 5.1 and I always had all admin privileges without ever checking which roles I had in "my account". But for FCK it's important. It took me a while to understand this because I kept going over "permissions" and "roles" but took it for granted that "my account" as admin already had full privileges. That's obviously not always the case.

I have read through the instructions, downloaded a install video (ala: 'Victor'), and have followed everything to the tee, and yet the fkceditor doesn't show up when I create content. I don't think doing it a 4th time will yield any different results. I've tried on two different Drupal 6 installations and neither of them are showing.

After reading roaming's post above, I checked that and still it didn't change anything. Very frustrating. I've tried on both Mac OS 10.5.2 and Linux... nada.

Any help from anyone would be appreciated.

RajP,
When you enable the module, are you getting any error message in your admin page?

I wanted to help with something that worked for me.
I was having the same trouble as other people (it wouldn't show up) but discovered that the "authenticated user" role wasn't working as a way to give FCKeditor permission. In other words, I couldn't just have all authenticated users be able to see the editor - it had to be a different role.
So - for me personally that would mean I am defaulted to the "authenticated user" role whenever I log in, but I also belong to the "editor" role. Assigning FCKeditor access just to the "authenticated user" role alone won't allow the editor to show up for me. But once I assign FCKeditor access to the "editor" role, it appears as it should.

I know some others have mentioned having a similar issue with the special "user number 1" - but it also appears to be the case for the special "authenticated user" role. I haven't tried it with anonymous users, but this may also cause trouble.

This may be what Roaming was saying above, I wasn't sure.
Basically you just have to rely on other user roles, not "authenticated user," to grant access to this module.

Thanks!
-Michael

Ok, this is fck'd :) but this is how I got the toolbar to show up: Under FCKeditor (configuration) > Edit (Advanced) > Editor Appearance, I set the Default State to FALSE. Then, when create content I would select Switch to Rich Text Editor under the Body area, and then it would show up. If I had the Default state set to TRUE, then it would not show up on it's own. Makes no sense, and is obviously a bug but at least the toolbar is there. It seems to be displaying what I expected... so far so good. I am using the Drupal Filtered toolbar and all seems well. Hope this helps out others.

(thanks to actdigital for their tip as well!)

~Raj

FCK appears for me only after I disable my firewall (on a G5). Until then, it will not appear. Works fine on other non-G5 machines...

Possible fix if you are seeing the html input fine but the output gives you the actual html sytax.

http://drupal.org/node/258249

Chris

For me, the fix was to check that I had given the Drupal user permission to access FCKEditor, and then to also edit the profile they were given access to and ensure that the appropriate user role was checked.

@RajP - if you set the default state to enabled, does any javascript error appear during FCKeditor startup?

@actdigital - in FCKeditor Global Profile you can set the correct Role precedence (and choose "authenticated user" to be on top)

I need more info to track this error, either steps to reproduce or link to a site where FCKeditor doesn't work.

Confirming. Only JavaScript errors displayed after installing latest 5.x-2.x from CVS and FCKeditor 2.6.2:

Browser is Firefox 2 on Windows XP/2003.

@sun: could you try disabling any other modules that you installed to see if it helps and/or switching to Garland theme?
I cannot reproduce this error on vanilla Drupal 5.8 installation + FCKeditor 5--2 CVS + FCKeditor 2.6.2 + FF2 Win XP, so it looks to me like a conflict with 1) other module or 2) custom theme.

For some reason, the documentation on drupal is one folder shallow for it to work on our sites. What I mean is it shows the hierarchy as

modules
---fckeditor
-----fckeditor.module
-----fckeditor
--------_samples
--------editor
--------COPY_HERE.txt
--------fckconfig.js
--------...

But when we copied the contents of the second fckeditor folder (which contains fckconfig.js, fckstyles.xml, fcktemplates.xml and a directory named editor among other files) and pasted it into the folder fckeditor(which is empty except for COPY_HERE.txt file) INSIDE the second fckeditor folder -IT WORKED!!!! so, the working taxonomy will look like:

modules
---fckeditor
-----fckeditor.module
-----fckeditor
--------COPY_HERE.txt
--------fckeditor
----------_samples
----------editor
----------COPY_HERE.txt
----------fckconfig.js
----------...

BTW...First you should follow the instructions by coru in http://drupal.org/node/169042

"You need two things to install FCKeditor:

First the module from drupal.org. decompress it and place it in the /modules/fckeditor directory.

Second, go to the FCKeditor page and download it. Decompress and place everything in the /modules/fckeditor/fckeditor directory.

Proceed as usual with the activation and configuration of the module and that's it.

Ref: http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor and http://www.fckeditor.net/

Regards"

Also, READ the README.txt files

Finally, here is the link to Drupal's trouble shooting if all else fails!!! http://drupal.fckeditor.net/troubleshooting#4

Good Luck!
-Jana
http://www.ArtScientific.com

have seriously done all of the above steps.

finally got it working for non-admin authorised user, but even after setting up an admin role, assigning myself to it, giving it authority to used fckeditor, it still doesn't work for admin.

tried uploading it to lower level folder, as suggested by jana, but that still didn't work. keep getting blank area where editor should be.

turned off non-core modules. went back to garland. refreshed all code. it's got me stuffed. and i really want to install it in a couple of sites soon.

more annoying, i just set a drupal site at work this morning, where it worked first time.
completely different hosting environment though - different company.
treated it with kid gloves, and turned on fckeditor first, before enabling any other modules.
used default theme.
didn't even need to setup an admin role.

one difference was that on the site at work, i put all modules into sites/all/modules.
in my site at home, i had all my favourite modules in modules, and just the fckeditor in sites/all/modules.

same version of all modules, as i copied the actual modules from one site to the other.

theres an internal setting somewhere in drupal that kicks up a fuss.

UPDATE: Still not fixed. Apologies to all who can't get it working. Ok the above works for our Admin role but still doesnt show up when our "moderator" role is logged in. All of the permissions are enabled. Also, the error message has added an additional (4th!) fckeditor folder to the list!!! It now reads in a pink box:

"The FCKeditor component is not installed correctly. Please go to the FCKeditor homepage to download the latest version. After that you must extract the files to /modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/ and make sure that the directory /modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor and the file /modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor.js exist. Refer to the readme.txt for more information."

Any Takers??? Thanks in advance!!

The paths are related to the path that drupal thinks the module is in. Could you reload the module cache by visiting the module page? Check if the paths are still as weird as now after that.

@sun: I kept getting the 'FCKLang' error too and blank Body area, but only on some browsers, namely those with different language than English. I found out that I caused the problem myself - by removing all language files except 'en.js' in fckeditor/edit/lang folder. When I put the language files back, everything worked fine..

Closing this thread because there is too many issues not related to each other (apart from that FCKeditor doesn't appear).
Please create a new bug report if you encounter any issues with FCKeditor (one issue = one bug report).
In any case, this might help: http://drupal.fckeditor.net/troubleshooting

I experienced this problem as well:

- I extracted editor in fckeditor/fckeditor/
- Setup "authenticated" user role to have permissions to use the FCKeditor
- Configured FCKeditor default & advanced to allow "authenticated" to use FCKeditor
- Checked all settings a dozen times

...still did not work. But! ...I fixed it.

When I created my page.tpl.php--i forgot to add

just about the < / body > tag (I use echo instead of print because it is a fraction of a hair quicker).

Worked fine after that.

@Dale Brendan: Thank you! ...
i almost frustrated with my d6 multi-site, i'm sure that fckeditor package is not the problem, because on other child site it working fine, but failed to work on the other child with different theme ...
now all my other three sites are fck ready .. very nice ..

For me it was a matter of setting the role precedence in Global Profile. By default it was set to 2>3, and it needed to be 3>2.

fixing title