Xinha for zencart

I have completed an integration of xinha - (x -it's not html area) for the cart admin and will upload it shortly. I have one question to throw out to anyone who knows more than I. plugins for the WYSIWYG editors area are a hit or miss thing. Does anyone have an idea why this is so? It does not have anything to do with the language file. I'm going to wait awhile to upload in case someone gives me an answer.

I'll be the first...if I may ask...what is xinha?

thank you,

betty

just go here http://xinha.webfactional.com/

:cool:

Thank you, titangen!

Xinha is an alternative html WYSIWYG editor. The advantage to Xinha is that it works in Mozilla based browsers. The version that I am going to put up also allows uploading images so that the user doesn't have to ftp extra images to put them into the product descriptions, define pages or ez pages, etc.

There's another plugin that allows the uploading of pdfs and other files. I frequently have to assist my customers in putting up pdfs and linking to them so it's a great addition. However, it's the one plugin that I can't get to work right now. That's why I was hoping some great zen guru would know more than I so that I can get this to work before I upload it.

But with no answers, I'm going to go ahead and package this up as is. If anyone wants to help, please speak up and I'll be glad to work on it further and upload a new version.

I'll post the url for the download page when it gets up.

here's the download page:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=793

Very impressed and love the fact that the image aspects work with no fuss - but there seems to be a problem in the Newsletter section in that the html is not being saved. Any ideas?

And a small error in the package you've put together... admin/includes/languages/english/extra definitions should be extra_definitions

thanks for the comments - but I don't know why the newsletter wouldn't save. It shouldn't be any different than other text areas. I never did figure out how the editors know which textareas to work in.

I did have someone at Xinha give me some more code that may correct that so I'll work on that today and correct that directory boo-boo when I upload.

Doesn't save in define_pages_editor either. :(

Well, coupon admin doesn't work either. Since I'm no javascript expert, I'm really having difficulties with this! I may just have to package this up with warnings.

If anybody out there knows more javascript than I and would like to help, please speak up.

I definitely don't have it all correct as the config file inclusion isn't working at all.

Shall keep at it.

well, fixed everything except the ezpages and I don't see why it's not working but neither is htmlarea on my computer right now. So I'll put it aside for the moment. I don't want to upload this without every file fixed so if you want the updates files, just message me.

I believe it's all fixed for 1.37 and 1.38 now. Ryk, you want to be my guinea pig for 1.37? I don't want to upload another mod until it's been tested by someone else

Be pleased to - you can email me the files to rickATglobalteamDOTcoDOTuk

Hi Delia and Ryk,
it would love to use Xinha, as at the first view it is probably the best editor in town. Even the Imagemanager is a very useful enhancement. As my php/sql-skills are too low I only can follow to what you both will find out. I'll love to use it ;)

Thanks and good luck, jens

As I applaud your work and effort, I must draw your attention to security.

You must implement some sort of security here as it is wide open for attack. Be sure to rewrite your code and use sanitation, proper permissions and lose unused code and files.

The reason I say this is because a file upload w/ edit functionality is typically very unsecure. It is the largest hole that can be compromised on a site with hackers uploading rogue files and redirect scripts.

If there are any takers in helping delia with this, please do.

Hi All,

I have been playing with Xinha for a while after having some troubles with FCk editor uploader. It looks promising, but does not save any files - I tried EZ-pages and the defined pages.

Are there any settings I am missing?

Hi Delia,

I have noticed that you have some updates and fixes. Could you please send me those?

Thanks

Andy

Also, i have noticed that when inserting images to product descriptions, they do not show up in the editor, because of the relative link to admin, i.e. it has a path like http://www.xxx.com/admin/images etc.

Where can we override the path settings?

Sorry, but this is not ready for prime time. I ran into several problems I couldn't solve - I simply don't know javascript well enough and no one at the xinha forums ever gave me enough info. I keep going back to this and making a little progress but right now things just don't work good enough to fully use.

Feel free to contact me... maybe i could help as I am digging this code anyway. What are the exact problems?