How to activate the HTML Editor in News Manager?

[ringy]

I have been pulling my hair out (the little that is left!) trying to get the HTML Editor to work with the News Manager (note that the normal dropdown menu for "None" and "HTMLArea" does not appear in this module). No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get it to work, I just get the usual plain text box which requires HTML for even a line break....
I have trawled through the forum but cannot find anything that has helped so far.
Can anyone give me some idea of how to activate the editor? Even a hard-coded solution will suit me - i.e. always use HTML Editor when compiling news items.
TIA

[kiddo]

I have been pulling my hair out (the little that is left!) trying to get the HTML Editor to work with the News Manager (note that the normal dropdown menu for "None" and "HTMLArea" does not appear in this module). No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get it to work, I just get the usual plain text box which requires HTML for even a line break....
I have trawled through the forum but cannot find anything that has helped so far.
Can anyone give me some idea of how to activate the editor? Even a hard-coded solution will suit me - i.e. always use HTML Editor when compiling news items.
TIA

If you wouldn't mind using the FCKeditor, I could show you how to do that...

Never tried it with HTMLarea.

[modchipfitters.co.uk]

If you wouldn't mind using the FCKeditor, I could show you how to do that...

Never tried it with HTMLarea.

can you please post this fix so that we all can know how to do this

thanks

[igurpi]

I have the same problem, i need to use fckeditor in news manager. Which is the solution??

thanks

[rwoody]

Has anyone figured out how to get either the html editor or the FCKeditor to work with this mod ?

[lara_k]

Problem solved! To replace the news manager text editor with FCKEditor (assuming you have the FCKEditor module installed) replace the following in admin/news_box_manage.php (I believe it's on line 296):

<?php echo zen_draw_textarea_field('news_content[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', 'soft', '100%', '35', (isset($news_content[$languages[$i]['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_content[$languages[$i]['id']]) : zen_get_news_content($_GET['nID'], $languages[$i]['id'])),'id="ta' . $i . '"'); ?>

with this:

				<?php if ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=="FCKEDITOR") {
                $oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('news_content[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']') ;
                $oFCKeditor->Value = zen_get_news_content($_GET['nID'], $languages[$i]['id']);
                $oFCKeditor->Width  = '700' ;
                $oFCKeditor->Height = '500' ;
//                $oFCKeditor->Create() ;
                $output = $oFCKeditor->CreateHtml() ; echo $output;
					} else { // using HTMLAREA or just raw "source"
					echo zen_draw_textarea_field('news_content[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', 'soft', '100%', '35', (isset($news_content[$languages[$i]['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_content[$languages[$i]['id']]) : zen_get_news_content($_GET['nID'], $languages[$i]['id'])),'id="ta' . $i . '"');
					} ?>

Basically, if you have FCKEditor working for EZ-Pages, you can snag the code from the EZ-Pages editor and use it. (Hopefully the next version of the News Manager will make this unnecessaray.)

[haredo]

L,
Thanks for posting the fix. Great help to other Zenners with this same problem..

[nitesh107]

Hi,

I also have same problem, I have used this code but when i add this News Content box 7 button not appear on page.

HOW CAN I SOLVE THIS???