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Posted by: chapiOn 2003/11/25 11:15:28 9559 reads

Are you tired of using the internal Xoops Editor? Than its time to apply this patch to your news module. It will integrate the Spaw Wysiwyg Editor (needs IE 5.5) in your news module. You can download it in the download section here at xoops.org!

Configuration Settings
- Wysiwyg Editor can be activated for Admin
- Wysiwyg Editor can be activated for User submit
- You can deactivate the linebreak conversion to avoid white space in front of the html code
- Xoops Editor will automatically be displayed, if a user doesn't have IE 5.5

Install Instructions
- If the news module isn't installed yet, install it through the modules administration firstly.
- Overwrite the news module files included in Xoops 2.0.5 with the files in the package
- After that update the news module

This patch doesn't make any changes to the database! Only one class file has changed, in order to display the wysiwyg content correctly.

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

malexandria Published 11/25/2003 11:44 Quite a regular Joined 12/23/2001 Comments 281

where is the download link?

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

chapi Published 11/25/2003 11:51 Theme Designer Joined 01/22/2002 Comments 611

Sorry, but I can't post the download link, when the download isn't approved yet. Now it is approved, and here is the link!

https://xoops.org/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=28&lid=525

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

basby Published 11/25/2003 12:01 Not too shy to talk Joined 01/28/2003 Comments 109

Great hack! I haven't tried it yet but I will certainly do.

Will this become part of the standard news distribution? I would love that. I know it has been mentioned in the module roadmap discussion.

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

chapi Published 11/25/2003 16:06 Theme Designer Joined 01/22/2002 Comments 611

The dev team is discussing this point at the moment. For the future, the wysiwyg editor should be included in the core, so every module can make use of it. At the moment it's a patch that works only for the news!

But we will see what the future brings ...

Is it possible to use the imag upload in Wysiwyg?

TheFinni Published 11/25/2003 16:41 Just popping in Joined 11/25/2003 Comments 75

I was wondering if the image upload is possible to get to function? and if so how?

I tried to do this:

In the "config/spaw_control.config" I changed the following to true:

// allow upload in image library
$spaw_upload_allowed = false;

then I uncommented the following code:

/*
$spaw_imglibs = array(
array(
'value' => 'uploads/',
'text' => 'Uploads',
)
);
*/
and changed the directory to the one I wanted. It seems like there's something working since I get a preview. No upload though...

I think being able to enable the image upload would make this module complete.

Please let me know if anyone knows how to do it...

Thanks a bunch!

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

philroy Published 11/25/2003 20:33 Friend of XOOPS Joined 08/23/2003 Comments 107

Some of us really want to stick with Xoops, but don't use PCs!!!!!!!

Given that I see the words "IE 5.5" (which doesn't exist on the Mac) and the coding listed in one posting...I take it that this isn't a cross-platform editor??????

Phil

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

Published 11/25/2003 21:04 Joined Comments

Quote:

I take it that this isn't a cross-platform editor??????

Sad but true!

@TheFinni: I found a not 100%-working solution for the imageupload. Download the orginal spaw-distribution, unzip and copy to your Xoops-root.

Rename spaw_control.default.config.php to spaw_control.config.php

set $spaw_upload_allowed = true;

and alter the upload-directories as needed. Change the the path to the spaw-directory in both storyform.inc.php provided by chapi.

This works for ME, BUT...

...there are some bugs left:
1. Preview and then submitting shows the html-tags, but who needs a preview when in wysiwyg-mode?

2. ol-Tag is not working, it provides a indented ul-tag

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

philroy Published 11/25/2003 22:25 Friend of XOOPS Joined 08/23/2003 Comments 107

Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaasssee! I'll donate more money, I promise!
Can you talented people please not forget us Mac users?! I would love to see a WYSiWYG editor, without having to sit at a PC to see it.

Phil

wat's wrong whith preview?

ElPalomo Published 11/26/2003 5:03 Just popping in Joined 08/20/2003 Comments 1

if an anonymous user click the preview button all fail ... then show the article in html. please help me!!!

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

chapi Published 11/26/2003 8:18 Theme Designer Joined 01/22/2002 Comments 611

If there would be a cross-browser wysiwyg editor out there, I surely would use it! But the only one I know is htmlarea3 in beta stage. So I have to say sorry in this case ...

user

Re: wat's wrong whith preview?

chapi Published 11/26/2003 8:19 Theme Designer Joined 01/22/2002 Comments 611

I will look into this problem. Please be patient.

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

Niels Published 11/26/2003 8:38 Just popping in Joined 04/19/2002 Comments 20

Has someone looked into htmlarea bevore using SPAW it can namely used with other browsers also.
you can found it on sourceforce.

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

chapi Published 11/26/2003 9:00 Theme Designer Joined 01/22/2002 Comments 611

Yes I tested htmlarea3. But this version is beta and has a few bugs left ...

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

TheFinni Published 11/26/2003 9:41 Just popping in Joined 11/25/2003 Comments 75

Hello Francis,
Thank you for sharing your solution! I tried to follow your advice but must have got lost somewhere. I managed to upload an image but then I can't see it anywhere or select it from the "choose-area" I do see the image on the server by ftp. hmmm?
If I could just manage to get the results you did...Did you upload all the original SPAW files? I just did the spaw_control.default.config file after I made the changes. I would very much appreciate if you could send me the files that worked for you. I will PM my e-mail to you.
This is one of the most important things to get ready about my project.
Basically I am planning to use the news module for a columnist section of a non-profit bicycling site I'm developing...I think the news section module would be best since it also archives the stories...and with the power of the HTML editor, I hope to make it easy for anyone to create readable and fun pages.
http://www.flagstaffbiking.org/index.php. the old (current) site is located at http://www.flagstaffbiking.org
Thanks!

Thomas

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

blaed_ Published 11/27/2003 6:27 Just popping in Joined 04/06/2003 Comments 5

Epoz is multi-browser compatible...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/epoz/

It's for Zope, but basically it's a heap of Javascript. Our company was evaluating a number of editors for a product we're producing, and the guy that was looking at this thinks you could probably seperate it from Zope without too much effort.

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

morris Published 11/27/2003 7:11 Just popping in Joined 09/25/2003 Comments 54

Hi,

Thank you for this great module but..... where are the smilies?
Also, the insert image toolbox doesn't look whether the image libraries are for admins only. Everybody can now use the image libraries.

Morris

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

ronvdb Published 11/27/2003 22:55 Just popping in Joined 05/21/2003 Comments 14

I just can't figure out why my Spaw buttons are not displayed..

when i look at the path for the images i get: xoops/modules/news/admin/admin/spaw/lib/themes/default/img/tb_copy.gif

That's 2 times admin/admin.

Anybody know where to change this ?

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

ronvdb Published 11/27/2003 23:01 Just popping in Joined 05/21/2003 Comments 14

sorry guys...found it: spaw_control.config.php

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

hoobamac Published 11/28/2003 19:57 Just popping in Joined 05/28/2003 Comments 9

Quote:

If there would be a cross-browser wysiwyg editor out there, I surely would use it!

I have looked at quite a few WYSIWYG editors, including some commercial products, I can't find any that work properly on safari on Mac OS X (including htmlarea)! Considering Safari is Apples own browser (and IE is apparently no longer being developed for Mac) this is likely the browser of choice for many Mac users.

If the current XOOPS editor is still used for non IE5.5PC users, then there is a fall back, and I think the implementation of spaw would be beneficial for the majority (even if that doesn't include me!)

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

finalfiler Published 11/30/2003 1:21 Documentation Writer Joined 01/19/2002 Comments 111

Thank you for attempting to address one of what I regard as two major, major failings of XOOPS (and many other CMS for that matter)- a) WYSIWYG editing and b) the lack of a competent newsletter module.

Regrettably after installing I get only what I had before- no options to enable WYSIWYG editing etc.

using XOOPS 2.0.5.1

Regards

user

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

snow77 Published 12/03/2003 4:46 Just can't stay away Joined 07/23/2003 Comments 864

Thanks Chapi, for such a great job. I have installed it successfully several times and it works great.

Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

philroy Published 12/04/2003 10:39 Friend of XOOPS Joined 08/23/2003 Comments 107

Just came across this too....

http://www.dotvoid.com/wysiwyg/richtext.html

still in development, but it was working in Mozilla on a Mac when I just tested it.

Phil

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

chapi Published 12/04/2003 11:09 Theme Designer Joined 01/22/2002 Comments 611

finalfiler did you update the newsmodule after copying the files from the package ?

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Re: Wysiwyg Patch for News module available

chapi Published 12/04/2003 11:10 Theme Designer Joined 01/22/2002 Comments 611

Oh nice one! These richtext editors were looking really good. Also epoz, mentioned before.

But now I think it's up to the devteam, to choose which wysiwyg editor they would support in the future and hopefully integrate as standard into the next version ..

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