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What is drupal fckeditor?

Drupal come with modules that could easily intergrate with some powerful online HTML editor , one of them is the popular FCKeditor. which bring desktop MS word like capability for drupal article writing.

And here 's a screen shot of the online Fckeditor:

Steps to install fckeditor

1. Download drupal fckeditor module at drupal.org and extract the archived file into directory 'sites/all/modules'. which will populate a 'fckeditor' directory. But this is only the interface module to integrate FCKeditor, we still have to download the real FCKeditor.
2. Download the real FCKeditor at www.fckeditor.net and place the downloaded archived file into directory 'sites/all/modules/fckeditor'.
3. Extract the above archive file use cpanel file manager and all the archive content will be place under directory 'sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor'

Steps to configure the fckeditor

After installation of the fckeditor, We will need some steps to configure drupal before we could use fckeditor to create our article.

1. Go to 'Site configuration->fckeditor' to configure fckeditor for drupal. The web page will alert us that We 're not allowed to use it due to privilege problem.
2. Go to 'User management->Permissions' to add permission for us to use fckeditor, we will only allow authenticated user to use it for security reason.

   

3. Now back to step 1 for fckeditor configuration. Under the Profiles we will click the 'edit' link for Advanced profile for authenticated user.

   

4. Expand the 'File browser setting' , there 's one important section to configure 'file browser' to browse image and insert image into article content. Here we will use the popular IMCE file browser.

   

Now When we create our content, we could see the interface of a word like interface provided by fckeditor! We could focus on content instead of the annoying content html format.