FCKeditor 2.3.1 for Zen Cart 1.3.0.2

Hi everyone, I've seen quite a few posts regarding a replacement HTML editor for Zen Cart to use in place of HTMLarea. I have FCKeditor 2.3.1 working on the major portions of Zen Cart that it is useful for, namely the EZPages, Define Pages Editor, and the Product manager. Much of what I've done is upgrading the existing legacy code that is in the files to work with the new FCK/ZC. I will be uploading the contribution for everyone to check out as soon as I have all of the other files finished up. Meanwhile, however, I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas for how to add FCKeditor to the HTML editor dropdown without replacing HTMLarea. As much as I would probably not use HTMLarea if FCK were available, I am really hesitant to completely replace it. Any suggestions? It could be obvious, but in most cases I try to avoid core hacking most of the Zen files, but with this mod, there isn't really any way around it. Thanks in advance for any ideas!

P.S. -- The image uploader/browser is working as well. Very helpful for those with clients that would like to upload their own images without FTP, or just for the sake of convenience.

Well done Saprrish, I have spent ages trying to get FCK to work, but keep getting permission denied erros when it trys to load display the editor.

I don't know how you are going to add FCK as an additional editor, in my opinion HTMLArea should be put in the bin and burnt. I dont know why such a great E-Commerce system has included such as bad text editor. I have spent 2 hours this morning trying to get rid of all the crap formating it has added to my main page.

Please can you post clear details of the Mods you had to make ASAP, please consider that little people like me, need more than "make necessary changes to pages a, b, c", I need to know exactly what changes to make.

Thanks for your time and effort doing this.

Simon

sparrish,
You might want to check out the image-upload/insertion code in the FCKeditor plugin for v1.3.5 to see if it's working the way you had expected. Not sure how you had envisioned it working. Feel free to tweak it as desired. Ideally it would be nice to push images to the /images area, and not to a folder within the editors' files. Security issues are a concern there too...

The plugin code is in the Downloads->Admin area.

Would be interested in your feedback.

:yes: i can't wait to see this new replacement editor for HTMLarea! good efforts...

I believe this is the same one commonly used in oscmax, I too would preffer it since its easier to insert images frm a client perspective than to upload an image and then insert a URL.

I am uploading it now, only question is, how does Zen know it evenexists since there is no updating of files or anythingin osc.