By pmajum1 on

I need to integrate FCKEditor in a form, without using form API. Please guide me how can I do that.

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decibel.places commented

FCKEditor is a rich text editor that will be applied on textarea fields.

If you install the FCKeditor module, it will be loaded on your form's textareas.

There are many ways to create forms in Drupal.

The form API is a good way to create forms.

I generally use the Webform module.

You can also add form fields to a content type with CCK.

You can even create a standard HTML form in the body of a node.

In all these cases, FCKeditor will appear on the textareas (if not, check the visibility settings of FCKeditor, to make sure the textarea is not disabled).

One more tip, to enable uploading of images and other files with FCKeditor, you need to enable the php connector.

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nevets commented

A small correction, the module for the FCKeditor only works with forms built using the Drupal form API (this includes the Webform module, CCK and other standard Drupal forms). It does not include standard HTML forms since the module is invoked by hooks through the form API.

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decibel.places commented

It does not include standard HTML forms since the module is invoked by hooks through the form API.

Actually, never tried applying the fckeditor to an html form on a node...

That is strange, because I believe that if you install fckeditor on a non-Drupal site, it will be applied to all texareas, correct?

So why does the Drupal module restrict it to only Drupal-created forms? IMO that is not necessary...

Anyway, I hope this helped the OP, seems like I gave a great deal of irrelevant advice if the goal is applying the fckeditor to an html coded form...

Possible solution:

Install FCKeditor in the standard way, outside of Drupal?

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