I've taken another look at this, and it seems fairly straightforward to me. I think most of the differences between a default installation of FCKEditor and the one delivered with ColdFusion are either files omitted because they're unnecessary - related to the ASP or PHP implementation for example, or the configuration file which is <siteroot>\CFIDE\scripts\ajax\FCKeditor\fckconfig.js
So to update your FCKEditor to the current version ... [A] I'm not an expert on the CF8 implementation, so no guarantees. Backup your whole \CFIDE\scripts\ajax\FCKeditor\ folder and sub-folders, so you can roll back if necessary. [B] download the current version from http://www.fckeditor.net/ The current stable version is 2.6.3 [C] HAVING MADE SURE YOU HAVE BACKEDUP AS IN [A] ABOVE .... unzip the current version into \CFIDE\scripts\ajax\FCKeditor\ . [D] the \ajax\FCKEditor folder should then contain a folder called editor, and the following files: (the rest are unnecessary and can be deleted but don't cause any harm if they remain) fckconfig.js, fckeditor.js, fckpackager.xml, fckstyles.xml, fcktemplates.xml, license.txt. [E] there's an additional file in the CF8 implentation - htaccess.txt you may need to copy this over from the backup. the notes on this file say: [quote] On some specific Linux installations you could face problems with Firefox. It could give you errors when loading the editor saying that some illegal characters were found (three strange chars in the beginning of the file). This could happen if you map the .js or .css files to PHP, for example. Those characters are the Byte Order Mask (BOM) of the Unicode encoded files. All FCKeditor files are Unicode encoded. Just rename this file to ".htaccess" and leave it in the editor directory. There are no security issues on doing it. It just sets the ".js" and ".css" files to their correct content types. [/quote] [F] transfer the customisations for CF8 to the fckconfig.js OR use an additional sheet to override the settings in the default fckconfig.js. That's a much better way to do it, because then you can just download new versions of FCKEditor as they are released, and copy them into the folder and that's it. Your customisations are still available on your external config file. There is instructions on how to do that in the FCKEditor documentation at http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Configuration/Configuration_File (see method 2) you can put any setting in there and it will over-ride the setting in the default fckconfig.js. [G] you might have to restart your application if you have put some of your fckeditor into the application scope. IN a shared hosting environment, you can wait till it times out, or you can simply change the application name and upload application.cfc again - i usually name my applications things like name="mysite0001" name="mysite0002" etc. You will know if you have been successful because when you call a page and see the editor embedded, and you click on the last icon on the bottom row. It will open with a popup showing the specifics of the fckeditor version you have installed. DISCLAIMER: I have not actually done this myself - i dont use the embedded FCKEditor - i have always installed FCKEditor separately and deleted the one that came with CF8 because i wanted more control of the way it looks myself. THEREFORE _ follow my instructions at your own risk, BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!! But having used FCKEditor successfully for quite a few years through quite a few versions, I am fairly sure of what i'm saying. Hope this helps. Please give me some feedback as to whether what i've said worked ok or not. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313103 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
