Support Thread for CKEditor Plugin

[RoPey]

Hi there
I have this in use on a clients site and I'd like to add some styles to the Styles dropdown so that they can stop adding in limitless html by pressing buttons repeatedly ;-)

I've had a look at the CKEditor website, specifically here http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_styles and done lots and lots of Googling, but I'm still unsure how to achieve this. I believe I may need to change styles.js in the editors/ckeditor folder, but that doesn't seem to marry up to what I'm seeing in the current working Editor. There, there are styles such as Blue Title and Red Title, which I do not see defined in the styles.js.

I did add my own bit of code to that file in the form of

{ name: 'Red Text',     element: 'span' },

and an option Red Text did appear in the drop down, but of course the actual presence of it isn't going to turn any text red - somewhere I need to define the relative CSS rules. Please could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance...

Well I seem to have found the answer, I was in the right place but needed to have the following code:

{ name: 'Red Text',	        element: 'span', attributes: { 'class': 'redtext' } },

thus setting a class which can then be defined in my usual stylesheet. It's also possible to set the styles within that code. However, I'm still unsure how to get the styling to show in the editor itself, rather than just on the rendered site.

Any ideas would be welcome.

Thanks

[frank18]

For the first time in many years I am having problems with CKEDitor on one of my live sites.

The strangest thing is that CKEditor is working fine on the identical local clone of this site but on the live site it gives me a blank space where it should show up, be it on a product.php page or a define page or an ezpage. Nothing, silch, nada. Checking the source of the respective page actually shows the html text - but not on the page itself.

Running latest v 4.1.3 of CKEditor, both live and local.

Background:

ZC 1.5.1 just upgraded from 1.3.9h
same plugins installed live and local
PHP 5.4.23 on live site and PHP 5.4.9 on local install

This is what I did so far to find the culprit:

- uninstalled CKEditor completely and reinstalled, both live and local - to no avail
- downloaded entire live site file system to a separate temp folder and did a full file comparison of both - no difference (other than 2 configure.php files ofc)
- checked log files: nada!

Loaded the live site in the latest Firefox and Chromium (Linux Ubuntu 13.10) - same result. Chromium is set to clear all history, cookies etc upon exit so there can't be any leftover stuff which may falsify the output.

At this point in time I am thinking that it may have something to do with the server side PHP extensions (???) and have decided to go and ask for opinions here.

Any ideas please?

Thanks / Frank

[delia]

and I also am having odd problems as well on php 5.4. As soon as i can I'm going to switch that cart to my server with 5.3 to see if it makes a difference.

In this case, some longer category descriptions and ezpages show fine on the site but do not show in the editor in admin.

My original post in this thread I've fixed to some extent - but I've done so many things to that site and have not gotten everything working correctly so I won't post what I did yet.

[frank18]

and I also am having odd problems as well on php 5.4. As soon as i can I'm going to switch that cart to my server with 5.3 to see if it makes a difference.......

Switched back to PHP Version 5.3.28 and it made no difference at all

[frank18]

Reverted back to PHP 5.4.23, checked that all ckeditor folders had permissions 755 and files 644.

Logged out, rebooted, logged in again and still the same issue.

I am absolutely stumped!

Correction also to my earlier post: CKEditor version is 4.3.1 and not 4.1.3

[frank18]

Got it working - finally!!

Deleted the editors/ckeditor folder, obtained a fresh copy from www.ckeditor.com by using the latest full version (4.3.1) and added a few more plugins as well as moono-color skin (you can build your own ckeditor to your liking).

Downloaded my personal version, unzipped it and uploaded the new ckeditor to the editors folder. No changes needed in the admin file structure.

Finally, cleared the cache (yet again) in Firefox 26.0, logged into admin and selected a define page to edit.

Voila, ckeditor showed up in nice colors

Perseverence paid off

[clikchic]

I am having a problem getting the ckeditor to show as an option in My Store>html editor. I installed as per the instructions that came with the plugin but for some reason it is not showing in the drop down menu. All that shows in that menu is Text. It also does not show in any of the other editor choice dropdowns.

Can anyone help me with what the issue might be?

I tried installing FCKeditor and it shows in the dropdown and will let me select it, but does not add the WYSIWYG editor anywhere.

[frank18]

I am having a problem getting the ckeditor to show as an option in My Store>html editor. I installed as per the instructions that came with the plugin but for some reason it is not showing in the drop down menu. All that shows in that menu is Text. It also does not show in any of the other editor choice dropdowns.

Can anyone help me with what the issue might be?

I tried installing FCKeditor and it shows in the dropdown and will let me select it, but does not add the WYSIWYG editor anywhere.

Can you give us a clue of your ZC version please?

Also check if your file your_admin/includes/init_includes/init_html_editor.php has CKEditor enabled.

[sbaker6612]

Question regarding flash player in CKEditor:
I am using Zencart version 1.5 with the CKEditor installed and am having issues using the included flash player piece. I have uploaded my flash video:
/Streaming Videos/Cane Ja class training cane_F8_FLV_VP6_3000Kbps_720p.flv and, using the flash dialogue window in the editor, cannot seem to get the player to see the video file. I have, however, been able to embed from Vimeo and You tube the same video using their code. I would really like our customers to be able to view the video from our server though. Does this have anything to do with a security setting in Zencart for outside access to the server or is there something else I am missing?
Thanks for the help!

[DrByte]

I've never used any flash-player from ckeditor.

But I'd strongly recommend NOT using flash, since doing so rules out a LARGE population of visitors whose computers/tablets/phones don't support flash. Why not use MP4 instead, and drop a suitable player widget onto the page to handle it.

Of course, that takes the discussion totally away from CKEditor too :)