First, a very basic question: Will CKEditor show up when the admin is editing a product description? Or is it only for when one is using the Define Pages Editor off the Tools menu? The description of this plugin may seem self-explanatory, but honestly for someone new like me it helps to spell it out. My client wants to be able to format his product descriptions without having to type the HTML code. Will CKEditor do that for him?
Here's the problem I'm having: I installed the latest CKEditor (from here: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1098) per the readme file.
I went to Configuration > My Store > HTML Editor and selected CKEditor. I logged out of admin and logged back in, just in case it mattered. Checked the configuration and it still showed CKEditor as the HTML Editor. But nothing had changed. No CKEditor displays when I edit a product description. I get a text box and inside it is the same HTML code that has been there from before.
If I go to Tools > Define Pages Editor, CKEditor is not shown. "Text Editor" shows by default in the dropdown, and if I select CKEditor the page refreshes, but since no file was selected it doesn't do anything. If I select the file name first from the file dropdown, the file is displayed with a text box but if I then select CKEditor from the editor dropdown, the page refreshes again and the text file disappears. I cannot seem to select the file to be edited and CKEditor as the editor at the same time.
Some of the other CKEditor threads talk about Languages. What is the connection between languages and CKEditor? Is there a connection between it and the selected template? I'm using an older template (Cold Steel 1.0) and may have modified some of the language files. Which language files interact with CKEditor, so that I can check whether that's a factor?
I tried changing the template to the Classic Contemporary Green that comes with the Zen Cart install (logged out and back in again) but that did not seem to make a difference.
I'm using MySQL 5.1.56-log and PHP 5.4.20 and Zen Cart 1.5.3
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. To be clear: My goal is to find a way for my non-techie client to edit and format product descriptions (when logged in as admin). If CKEditor isn't the answer, then none of this matters. Please direct me to something that will help with that. Thanks again.
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