HTMLarea invalid

[ChrisZ]

Bit of a necro post but ...

Set to HTMLarea in Configuration/My Store but I couldnt get HTMLarea to work in Categories/Products on a new xampp test environment.

I found that if I changed Tools / Define Pages Editor to HTMLarea
... then html area worked in Categories/Products

HTH
C

[rstevenson]

I had long ago given up trying to use HTMLarea. Recently, after installing and using FCKEditor in a Wordpress site, I tried it on one of my Zen Cart stores. Works like a charm.

Rob

[studiotucker]

Ok i figured it out... you have to edit your configre.php file in "admin/includes" and change the following---

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://nmteaco.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://nmteaco.com');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://nmteaco.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://nmteaco.com');

// Use secure webserver for catalog module and/or admin areas?
define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'false');
define('ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN', 'true');

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
// these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/store/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/store/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/store/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/store/');

---
to represent your file structure

This did it for me...Thanks for the clue! I moved my site structure above the store folder and when I changed the path I had left an extra slash

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '//');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '//');

Took that out to make it (OK, stop laughing all you zen pros...)

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

and the editor came up perfectly! The path was bad...details!
Always an adventure with ZC.

[eliko]

I just installed zen-cart on a hosted Linux server and find that while I choose HTMLarea as my editor, both in Tools/Page Editor and Configuration/MyStore, I still don't see the editor. Following all the posts here and having tried some of them, there is no consistency of solutions, and success seems to be a matter of circumstance. My best guess is as follows: Based on information in the book eStart Your Web Store with Zen Cart (which I have bought, read, and recommend), I believe the issue is permission problems. This is re-enforced by content found here:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=136.
Will pursue this line and post later if successful.

[Tagyourbaby]

Ok so i found out that my HTML editor doesnt work in firefox but works in explorer. Any ideas?

[rayl]

A related issue, I think:
version 1.3.8a clean install, fairly new, no addons

Editing define_main_page.php.
I think all the functions in HTMLarea work for me except Insert Image has a peculiarity: I cannot enter a URL unless I first click on OK, which gives me a popup error message. Then I click OK on the "You must enter the URL" error, and now I can enter a URL in the box.

However, when I try to make the image I just uploaded clickable, the Link function popup never allows me to enter a URL into it. My first attempt at editing the code manually in HTMLarea with the "<>" function ended in a massively screwed up define_main_page.php. I think HTMLarea accomplished that.

At least I can use HTMLarea mostly, so I am not in as bad a shape as those for whom HTMLarea is not working at all.

OK, I just found out that HTMLarea works under IE7. I prefer FF3, but I guess some things still only work correctly in IE. Ugh. I do not have these problems in IE. But, I will use IE only when I have to. Ugh.

[Resqjock]

This is the error message from Explorer. Can anyone tell what this means.

I have NEVER gotten HTMLArea to work frem the start.

Stan


Message: 'HTMLArea.I18N.lang' is null or not an object
Line: 917
Char: 2
Code: 0
URI: http://www.htpradios.com/store/edito...ea/htmlarea.js


Message: 'HTMLArea.I18N.tooltips' is null or not an object
Line: 250
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://www.htpradios.com/store/edito...ea/htmlarea.js

[J_star]

Since the clean install when i Started it has never worked, even fckeditor doesnt work.

I tryed all the work arounds on this topic, except one I didnt understand, its a pain but hopefully there is a sollution.