Hi all,
As someone trying to migrate from Joomla to Drupal, I must say i am appalled at the difficulties of trying to install a wysiwyg editor.
I've tried Tinymce - useless - just breaks everything.
FCKeditor - used with no problems in Joomla - spent most of today trying to get this installed - followed numerous guides and used the correct files - all fail miserably.
I am currently stuck with
'FCKeditor
checking for modules/fckeditor/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 /drupal/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/ and make sure that the directory /drupal/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor and the file /drupal/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor.js exist. Refer to the readme.txt for more information.
The FCKeditor module allows Drupal to replace textarea fields with a rich text or WYSIWYG editor. This editor brings many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word to the web. It's relatively lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
More information about the editor is located at the FCKeditor homepage. A small user guide is located at FCKeditor userguide.
Profiles can be defined based on user roles. A FCKeditor profile can define which pages receive this FCKeditor capability, what buttons or themes are enabled for the editor, how the editor is displayed, and a few other editor functions. It is possible also to define the Global Profile that will hold values that will be appended to all other profiles.
Lastly, only users with the access fckeditor permission will be able to use FCKeditor. '
Absolutely useless - looks like Drupal is going to be a miss for me. I'll carry on looking for CSS based alternatives.
Cheers!
Mike
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I think you are one level
I think you are one level too deep in installing the FCKeditor files... mine is in sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckconfig.js
And you did install the module in the sites/all/modules directory? Or sites/default/modules...
Eric
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I am not sure why "only
I am not sure why "only users with the access fckeditor permission will be able to use FCKeditor." is even a problem. You just need to put the users who you want to be able to use FCK in the right access group, or just enable FCK access for anonymous users.
I and hundreds, if not
I and hundreds, if not thousands, of others have used both and they both work. My current preference is fckeditor, but depending on the progress of the wysiwyg project that may switch back to tinymce.
No clue what you're problem is with tinymce since you don't describe it, but it sounds like you did what I did when I recently installed fckeditor. You copied the FOLDER "fckeditor" from the archive to /sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor which gives you /sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor (note the third 'fckeditor' level). You need to copy the CONTENTS of the fckeditor folder in the archive to /sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor (there's shouldn't be a 3rd 'fckeditor' in that hierarchy).
drupal's not for everyone-- but both of those editors, as well as several others, work fine.
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Moving along
Hi,
Doesn't work in the sites/all etc.
However, placing it in the main modules directory makes it work.
Tell me - does anyone know if the image handling can be improved in any way. It would be nice to be able to upload directly via the images interface.
Many thanks all.
Cheers!
Mike
Images
Hi,
I've enabled the file manager in FCK - uploaded an image for a page - the image is not displayed in the browser - shows up in the page edit no problem.
Doing something wrong again? Something needs tweaking?
Cheers!
Mike
I have fckeditor working
I have fckeditor working fully-- with the integrated file browser/upload manager as well as some additional plugins.
The installation instructions are a little more complicated than most, but if followed fully and completely, fckeditor works completely (and is much easier to customize than tinymce). And also-- i have it installed in /sites/all/modules, both in windows and linux, with no problems.
If you want real assistance troubleshooting you're going to have provide more details (did you use an installer? windows? linux? did you follow ALL the details in the readme? did you get any error messages? etc)-- simply saying 'it doesn't work' isn't enough to work with.
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fckeditor
I have installed fckeditor and keep on getting not the toolbar but my frontpage instead.
Can you tell me what is wrong here ???
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I already answered this question in your thread-- asking in another thread isn't going change the answer, lol.
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You should not place modules
You should not place modules in the drupal/modules folder. You should make the directories drupal/sites/all/modules and drupal/sites/all/themes and place non-code modules and themes in those directories.
Thus FCKeditor would end up in drupal/sites/all/modules/fckeditor - if the modules do not work from there, you have a problem. Placing modules in drupal/modules could cause a problem when you upgrade to the next version of Drupal because the instructions will say something like 'remove all files and directories except for drupal/sites and drupal/files' .
Note - I believe you can also use drupal/sites/default instead of drupal/sites/all if you are not using multisites.
Eric
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Step by step to fix - following on Eric's suggestions
Eric suggested, as a best practice, of putting the FCKeditor module in sites/all/modules. It is a best practice to separate the core (what comes with Drupal) modules from the contributed ones mainly for easier upgrades. Eric also pointed out in the first reply that fckeditor was probably untarred one directory too deep.
The steps to fix it if you are interested:
1) disable the fckeditor module in the drupal admin interface
2) delete the fckeditor and the fckeditor module from /modules
3) install the fckeditor module into sites/all/modules
4) download the most recent version of fckeditor directly to /sites/all/modules/fckeditor directory
5) gunzip/untar the fckeditor tarball
6) verify the fckeditor is installed under /sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor
7) reinitialize the fckeditor module in the drupal admin interface
Also, if you are relatively new to drupal (or old hat for that matter) then you can install the navigate module - it makes admin chores a bit easier...
Thanks for this...
Your instructions beat the hell out of those in the FCKeditor documentation. I had the same "which-fckeditor-directory-does-this-damn-thing-go-in problems. It's really two steps: install mod, then install software.
Thanks!
Solved
Hi all,
Thanks for all the feedback.
Sorted. Helps if you name the modules directory correctly - 'modules' not 'module'. Doh!
Cheers!
Mike