HTMLarea invalid

OK, this is driving me insane. I have gone in and set the editor to HTMLArea in my admin interface, but I'm *STILL* getting just the plain textarea. In digging through and playing with the code and looking at my PHP logs, there are no apparent errors and the admin/includes/htmlarea.php file isn't even being included. In looking in the database, the configuration setting for HTML_EDIOTR_PREFERENCE is set to "HTMLAREA".

In short, there's no reason that I can see for why this wouldn't work. What is going on?

Rob Z.

After further searching, it turns out the product editing page isn;t including this file at all. What the heck is going on here? If the product edit page isn't going to use HTMLArea for the description, why bother including it as an option at all?

At the end of the day, I had to manually include admin/includes/htmlarea.php in my admin/products.php page and comment out the part in htmlarea.php which shecks the session var for 'html_editor_preference_status'. This is suboptimal, though, as it means I can't update my Zencart install without blowing this fix away.

What, if anything, am I doing wrong here? Sure, it works now, but I plan on using this system for my clients going forward and, if I can't rely on ZenCart to at least do what it states in its docs and configuration like a piece of professionally built and maintained software should, I'll need to find a better alternative. This concerns me a great deal. Please, someone, alleviate my concern here.

Rob Z.

You wouldn't happen to have your ZenCart in a sud-dir of your domain name would you?

Mine is: www.domain-name.com/cart-dir

(Trust me - I did not want to do this -- the client wanted it...)

I fixed the HTMLarea problems in config...
but it introduced an "product image" problem in the admin area.

The thing is - there is no perfect open-source e-commerce solution...
but ZenCart is better than spending tens of thousands of dollars on a commercial solution when we all know that the client is NOT going to be making 10's of thousands on their products! :-)

After moving my store from a sub directory to the root I have lost all editors. When i did the move I changed the admin/includes/configure.php file and it reads as follows:

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');
(of course its not really called admin I edited that for the forum)
Can one of you point me to where my issue lies as its not quite what others have had? I tried Colin's suggestion of
define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/newdir/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/newdir/');
and it brought in my front page:yuck: AM i being really thick and should i know what to put instead of newdir?
Thanks chris

I have solved this so am posting what i did for the benefit of others.
I changed the config to this :
define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '');
(of course its not really called admin i edited that for the forum ) ie deleted the / and it works fine
Of course i better go check if the rest works ok

Since i've upgraded to 1.3.8 version, the possibility of using the html editor isn't working anymore.
I'm not the only one dealing with this problem...:(

Searching for help and support brought me ZIP

Please, i need some help here! Is there another treath with support?

I have two test shops running 1.3.8.
One on PHP 4.4.7 has the HTMLarea editor working fine.
The other runs on PHP 5.2.6 but the HTMLarea editor does not appear.

Ignore the my last post. The difference in the two test shops is how their servers treat the .htaccess files. Once I removed the .htaccess file from the editors directory, my HTMLarea burst into life. The host company only allows Rewite Rules and not the Zen Cart directives in .htaccess.

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Originally Posted by haythere

Ignore the my last post. The difference in the two test shops is how their servers treat the .htaccess files. Once I removed the .htaccess file from the editors directory, my HTMLarea burst into life. The host company only allows Rewite Rules and not the Zen Cart directives in .htaccess.

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Haythere....thanks for that, it worked a treat, it was beginning to drive me mad, I had tried everything, but deleting the .htaccess did the job....now I can use HTMLarea again, bliss.:clap:

I have moved hosting companies and am now experiencing the same problem.
I have removed the .HTaccess file and still it doesn't work