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Want a WYSIWYG detailed description text area?

Does anyone have a need for a WYSIWYG mod for your detailed description text area?

Here is what it looks like...

http://www.ewdhosting.com/images/xcart-wysiwyg.gif

If anyone wants it, I'll put a howto together ;)

Emerson,

Only finished mods here. Post it!!!

Don't tease us!

;)

:D

Hello everyone!
Just a little something you might find usefull.

After installation, you'll be able to use the Full Description are as a WYSIWYG editor. Kind of like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

You can find details about it at http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/documentation.html

Here we go...

First download the file from http://www.ewdhosting.com/htmlarea.zip

Unzip it to your computer and upload the entire 'htmlarea" folder into your xcart root directory (eg: /xcart/htmlarea )

Now open the following (according to your version) and add the following right in between the <head> and </head> tags...

Pro: open /xcart/skin1/admin/home.tpl
Gold: open /xcart/skin1/single/home.tpl

Code:

<head>

{literal}

<script language="Javascript1.2"><!-- // load htmlarea

_editor_url = "../htmlarea/"; // URL to htmlarea files

var win_ie_ver = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE")[1]);

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') >= 0) { win_ie_ver = 0; }

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Windows CE') >= 0) { win_ie_ver = 0; }

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') >= 0) { win_ie_ver = 0; }

if (win_ie_ver >= 5.5) {

document.write('<scr' + 'ipt src="' +_editor_url+ 'editor.js"');

document.write(' language="Javascript1.2"></scr' + 'ipt>'); 

} else { document.write('<scr'+'ipt>function editor_generate() { return false; }</scr'+'ipt>'); }

// --></script>

{/literal}



</head>

Now open /xcart/skin1/main/product_modify.tpl and add the following to the top of the file...

Code:

<script language="JavaScript1.2" defer>

editor_generate('fulldescr');

</script>

That should be it!

Now log into to admin and try to add or edit a product. Your detailed description box should be just like the screenshot in the first post ;)

I could only find home.tpl in customer, fulfilment and single? Using the lastest 3.5 xcart version.

That is weird!
You should definitely have that file in the admin directory.

it's single/home.tpl

Sorry about the mix up.
I have updated the howto to show which file to edit depending on your version of xcart ;)

htmlarea - working?

Looking for confirmation that someone else has this working?

I'm on 3.5.3 Gold and I can't seem to get the HTML editor to show up.

Randy

I'm running v3.5.7 and it aint showing up on mine either !

Please post the path to your xcart install and the path for the htmlarea directory.