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FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:12 pm
by paulpdesign
I have installed CMSMS version 1.0 beta4 and the site is successfully working. However, when editing a page the FCKeditor does not load in the content box, instead I see the raw HTML. Debug mode reveals no further clues.

I selected Extensions > FCKeditor from the menu and the editor succesfully loads in the test area and I can change skin, toolbar.

I have re-run the install, but this has not changed anything. Is there some config I am missing? Any ideas?

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:00 am
by Ryno
I'm also having this issue, however I downloaded the latest nightly snapshot (about 2 hours ago from the time of this post)

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:36 am
by tsw
Just tested with latest svn, I had some problems with file permissions (suphp killed FCKeditorXcfg.js.php and fckstyles.xml.php execution with error 500)

after checking file permissions it works fine for me..

do you get any JS errors, and have you tested with different browsers / computers?

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:19 pm
by paulpdesign
All of my files within modules/FCKeditor are set as 544.

I have tried on 2 different computers, IE and Firefox. i have other sites which also use CMSMS (older versions) which are fine, so browser should be ok.

Anything else to check?

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:57 pm
by paulpdesign
I have now installed this on a fresh machine from both the SVN and zip versions. I have run it on windows and *nix OS but am still getting the same effect. Raw HTML in the content box and no sign of FCKeditor. As I said previously, it does appear under the modules > FCKeditor Tab for testing and config of the editor - but that's not where I need it!

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:43 pm
by tsw
Have you checked that fckeditor is enabled for your user?

my preferences -> user preferences -> Select WYSIWYG to use

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:19 pm
by Ryno
Hey TSW,

Yeah that fixed it, however shouldn't fckeditor be enabled by default?

if not, what is the reason for this? It's not intuitive for new users of CMS to go searching for this in user preferences in my opinion.

Ryno

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:43 am
by paulpdesign
Thank you. I have just found this myself too. I am sure it was the default option in previous versions so a shame that the default is now 'none'.

Thanks for your help.
Paul

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:20 am
by tsw
IMHO we shouldnt even ship fckeditor in the core ;)

wysiwygs tend to create bad code and create lots of problems...

but as we dont have anything better atm it will be included...

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:56 am
by olaf_noehring
Hi

I had a short look at tinymce - and this works in Opera as well. Since I am very happy ad think it's too bad that fckeditor does not work in this browser I would agree that tinymce would be a good (better than fckeditor) to ship with.
I must admit, I have not looked deeply into it yet but I was very surprised, that it did work. For example people who have absolutely no clue about html would need an wysiwyg editor that does work to produce some good looking results.

Olaf

Re: FCKeditor not displaying for content

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:38 pm
by mark_l_sanders
Two issues with TinyMCE, though: firstly, it's not truly wysiwyg - in my install it insists on putting all text in the center (in the editor) unless you specifically choose align:left - however, the generated display is fine. Secondly, it does not, by default, put text into tags, which is really poor.