Haradaworld Design and Illustration Service

While I was at Drupal Camp Austin 2009, one of the speakers had a WYSIWYG (pronounced whizzywig) editor in the  content creation node of his Drupal installation. After doing a little bit of research,  I found the FCK Editor module for Drupal. Fairly easy to install, once I figured out how to do it and with some help from an excellent video tutorial. Here's your sticky points:

I ran into trouble during the installation instructions at a critical step that's not very clear in the documentation. The thing to remember is that there's 2 parts to this module. The first is the actual FCK Drupal module that you can download from Drupal.org, the second is the FCK Editor code. Both of these have to be installed in your sites/all/modules folder. Now, here's where it gets tricky. The Drupal module code goes in the directory:

sites/all/modules/fckeditor

and the actual editor code goes in

sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor

Since a picture tells a thousand words, here's what your directory structure should look like. For the sake of brevity, I cropped the image to just show the important bits.

After you do your installation, configure the module according to the instructions on drupal.fckeditor.net. I haven't quite figured out a few more things - like attaching an image. I actually had to load this one via FTP into the appropriate directory, and then linked to it. Why did I do it that way, you ask? Because I'm a noob. At least I didn't hack any files... :D

Here's the linkage for this Noobs Like Me installment:

FCK Editor Installation tutorial video

Good tips and tricks plus configuration instructions for FCK Editor

FCK Editor Drupal module on drupal.org

FCK Editor code. Please note that at this time, the Drupal module only works with the FCKEditor 2.6.3 version. A Drupal module is in progress, latest release estimate is November 2009.

Hope this helps - thanks for reading!