HTMLArea - formatting buttons not showing up in Admin

[wickedwebs]

My HTMLArea has never worked, not from the very beginning of my ZenCart 1.2.6 installation.

By "not working" I mean: it doesn't appear at all, even though the Configuration - My Store - HTML Editor is set to HTMLarea, and it does appear in the dropdown, even as the default.

However, it does work as a standalone (the htmlarea\examples\core.html) so it's not my server or my browser or firewall settings. The problem exists on my PC from all my browsers (Firefox, Netscape, IE).

I receive a javascript error when I try to use it from the admin pages, reads slightly differently in each browser: in file catalog/htmlarea/htmlarea.js:
“HTMLArea.I18N.tooltips has no properties” or “HTMLArea.I18N.tooltips is null or not an object”

My setup:
Linux server
PHP version 4.4.1
Zencart version 1.2.6
Current HTMLarea from fresh download of Zencart 1.2.7
2 languages: cn-utf8 & en
Configuration – My Store – HTML Editor is set to “HTMLAREA”
“HTMLarea” does appear in the dropdown as the default

I have tried:
- a completely fresh upload of HTMLarea
- setting "en" as the default language
- checking my admin\includes\configure.php (as mentioned in some other posts)
- checking if I have an .htaccess file blocking access to htmlarea (I don’t)
- checking that I have the appropriate language files in htmlarea (I do)

Any other suggestions? Is the javascript error a key to my problem?

[wickedwebs]

Sorry, ignore my previous post, as I've discovered the problem, which turned out to be pretty simple. The language was identified as "cn" in location setup and "cn-utf8" in the htmlarea language file, thereby creating a javascript error of an non existing HTMLarea toolkit.

Somehow this error in one language made HTMLarea not work in English either.

[wasana]

After I moved my cart up one level in the directory HTMLarea stopped showing buttons.

Following FAQ for renaming I changed configure.php files:

3. Your /includes/configure.php and /admin/includes/configure.php files are used to point Zen Cart to the right folders. In those files, you need to update several entries to match the new path information: * DIR_WS_CATALOG * DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG * DIR_FS_CATALOG * DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE * DIR_WS_ADMIN (in admin) * DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN (in admin) * DIR_FS_ADMIN (in admin)

where I changed define('xxxx','/zencart/'); to define('xxxx','//'); 'htmlarea stopped working. when I changed to a single '/' it worked....


go figure... go (con)figure...

[Hangly Man]

Nevermind. It turns out 1.3.0.1 is different from the v the Zencart book was based on. There is a dropdown for Text Editor that I compltely missed.

I must be missing it too. Where is it?

[woodlandsprite]

somewhere kind of on the right side of the screen, towards the top (but below all the header & navigation bars in the admin), assuming you are in a location where you will be needing a text editor, you should see a dropdown menu labeld "Text Editor" you should be able to select HTMLArea (presuming again, that you have HTMLArea enabled in Admin->Configuration->mystore

[Hangly Man]

somewhere kind of on the right side of the screen, towards the top (but below all the header & navigation bars in the admin), assuming you are in a location where you will be needing a text editor, you should see a dropdown menu labeld "Text Editor" you should be able to select HTMLArea (presuming again, that you have HTMLArea enabled in Admin->Configuration->mystore

I finally found that dropdown in ez-pages, and enabling it there turned it on for the rest of the site. Odd.

[picard1701]

Hi, i had the same problem from the start, it turned out to be the HTACCESS file in the htmlarea directory, i renamed it and the buttons appeard.