Looking at comments about FCKeditor it seemed that it should be pretty easy to set up and indeed it was.\u00a0 Installation was easy as was getting a quick sample page working, but could I figure out how to load a file into the editor?\u00a0 No I couldn’t!\u00a0 I knew it must be fairly simple but I just couldn’t find any example of how to do it.\u00a0 Putting a string into FCKeditor using the Value parameter was straightforward but getting an actual file in there just confounded me.<\/p>\n
After spending most of a day hunting around the internet I just couldn’t get it working properly.\u00a0 I think I must just be more stupid than the average FCKeditor developer.\u00a0 But the next day ( problems often look easier the next day) after a little more searching I managed to figure out how to load a file into FCKeditor.\u00a0 So I thought I’d put the solution on this blog to save anyone else as silly as me a lot of time.<\/p>\n
It is of course quite simple.\u00a0 The value parameter for FCKeditor must be a string, this is then the starting text in the editor window, the trick is to make your file into a string.<\/p>\n
<?php
\ninclude_once(“fckeditor\/fckeditor.php”) ;
\n?>
\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN” “http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
\n<html xmlns=”http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml”>
\n<head>
\n<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ \/>
\n<title>Amend Pricelist<\/title>
\n<\/head>
\n<body>
\n<form action=”sampleposteddata.php” method=”post” target=”_blank”>
\n<?php<\/p>\n
\/\/ Read the file into an array
\n$file_array = file(“pricelist.php”);<\/p>\n
\/\/ Convert the array into a string
\n$file_contents = implode(‘ ‘,$file_array);<\/p>\n
$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor(‘FCKeditor1’) ;
\n$oFCKeditor->BasePath = ‘\/fckeditor\/’ ;<\/p>\n
\/\/ Use the string as the initial value for FCKeditor<\/p>\n
$oFCKeditor->Value = $file_contents ;<\/p>\n
$oFCKeditor->Width\u00a0 = ‘700’ ;
\n$oFCKeditor->Height = ‘750’ ;
\n$oFCKeditor->Create() ;
\n?>
\n<br \/>
\n<input type=”submit” value=”Submit”>
\n<\/form>
\n<\/body>
\n<\/html><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And it worked!\u00a0 I had managed to load a file into FCKeditor.\u00a0 There may be a better way of doing this, and I would love to hear about it if someone knows better, but it does the job.<\/p>\n
I hope this blog saves someone else a bit of headscratching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am working on a website which contains sections which the client wants to be able to update themselves.\u00a0 Not very difficult stuff, just updating their pricelist, special offers, that sort of thing.\u00a0 Rather than a full blown CMS (Content Management System) I opted to have the content in HTML files which can be included […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19,18],"tags":[73,74,145,144,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}