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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Installing the Text Editor


To get started using the text editor, navigate to the FCKeditor project page at http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor.

Uploading and Enabling FCKeditor

As described in Chapter 3, download the module, extract the code, and upload it into the sites/all/modules directory.

Note

In this site, we are using FCKeditor for the text editor. The support for FCKeditor within the Drupal community is solid, which is one of the factors to consider when selecting a module. With that said, other options that can be used include the WYMeditor, TinyMCE, and BUI editor.

Unlike most modules, installing the FCKeditor has one additional step: you need to download the text editor from the FCKeditor site http://www.fckeditor.net/download. You want to get the current release, which will be listed as shown in the following screenshot:

Download the files from the FCKeditor site, and extract them. Then, as shown in the next screenshot, add the new folder to the FCKeditor module code.

As shown by...