widget:editor

widget:editor fields.ini directive

Return to fields.ini file

The widget:editor directive is applicable in the fields.ini file. It specifies the type of HTML editor that should be used. This directive is only used when widget:type is set to htmlarea?. Xataface currently supports FCKEditor, TinyMCE, and NicEdit.

Allowed Values

Examples

Example 1: Using FCKEditor

Given a field 'content' that you wish to be able to edit with FCKEditor, you would have the following section in your fields.ini file:

[content]
    widget:type=htmlarea
    widget:editor=fckeditor

Note that since FCKEditor is the default editor, the above would give the same result as:

[content]
    widget:type=htmlarea

Example 2: Using TinyMCE

Further from example 1, if we wanted to use TinyMCE editor, we would change our directive to:

[content]
    widget:type=htmlarea
    widget:editor=tinymce

Example 3: Using NicEdit

Further from example 1:

[content]
    widget:type=htmlarea
    widget:editor=nicedit

Enabling Image Uploads

By default image uploads are disabled in these WYSIWYG editors.

Enabling Image Uploads in FCKEditor

1. Create a directory named uploads inside your application directory. e.g.

   cd /path/to/myapp/uploads

2. Make the uploads directory writable by the webserver. e.g.

   chmod 777 /path/to/myapp/uploads

3. Edit the lib/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/config.php file inside your xataface directory so that:

   $Config['Enabled'] = true ;
   $Config['UserFilesPath'] = '/url/to/myapp/uploads/' ;
       // The path portion of the URL to your uploads directory.
       // e.g. if your uploads directory is accessible at
       // http://example.com/myapp/uploads, then this value should
       // be /myapp/uploads/
   $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] = '/path/to/myapp/uploads/' ;
       // The absolute file system path to your uploads directory.
       // e.g. if your uploads directory is located at
       // /home/myhome/www/myapp/uploads, then this value should be
       // /home/myhome/www/myapp/uploads

4. Now when you click on the "Add Image" link in your HTML editor, it will allow you to upload images and browse existing uploaded images.