I got it all loaded with your instructions... But when I create a new page with the editor or I edit an already existing page... It over writes it (deletes it) and leaves the blank create page...

Under the section "fckw dokuwiki plugin", don't you mean to indicat the directory "/lib/plugins/fckw"?

Also, I'm using Strawberry Perl on Win32 - while it retrieved and compiled the HTML::WikiConverter::DokuWiki module just fine, it seems to munge the conversion when actually used by DokuWiki. Have you had other reports of this not working quite right on Windows?

Hi I have come up with two problems during the installation.
I first followed the first set of instructions (non plug-in install).
html2wiki installed (after a bit of trouble)
then i extracted FCKeditor and added the code to /lib/scripts/fckeditor/fckconfig.js and I cleared the cache. This didnt start FCK. Did i missing a step here? Should the code for the edit bar not be changed too to point to FCK as the editor? How does Dokuwiki know to use FCK as the editor instead of the standard Dokuwiki editor?

After playing with this for a while I give up an installed the plugin version, which went fine. Then I noticed that I am not able to create pages using FCK in IE6 (it brings up a wiki stype edit box with no icons). I can edit pages with fck and IE6 no problem and i can edit or create pages using FCK and firefox.

I am using Fedora Core 8 with apache and there were no errors in the apache error log or on the browser error log. any help would be great thanks.

I have a problem installing the HTML::WikiConverter package due to the company proxy preventing internet access to the command line in a DOS box under WinXP. I have Activeperl installed.
Is there a workaround to copy the necessary modules into the correct subdirectories? Or will the requirement for manual installation of HTML::WikiConverter become redundant in a future version of the fckw plugin?

BTW the html2wiki instructions worked flawlessly on another PC running Archlinux and fckw0.3 is working fine there - great job

It erases the page (or section) when I make an edit, sadly...

I guess there is no way of trying the plug-in on a hosted server if I don't have access rights to install perl packages?

One problem I have noticed is that the single and double quotes get replaced with funky equivalents (a with a hat on it) after TWO saves. If you have quotes in a file and save it once, they look fine; but save it a second (or more) time(s), and you'll see your text littered with those Word-type non-ANSI/utf-8 funky a's with hats. Any idea where the problem originates so we can hack it? It doesn't seem to be fckeditor as the perl routine there replaces all quotes with ', etc.

FCKW has worked pretty well for me in Dokuwiki. One major issue I have is that the preview button is now longer available. I can get to the preview button by going to Wiki Syntax editing but then I cannot get back to FCKW editing without saving or losing my changes. Is there a way to get around this?

WYSIWYG-principle: why do you a want a preview mode, if you already see what you are writing?!
Wouldn't that be senseless? Or did i misunderstand your question?
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jean-claude.

Here is a solution (as proposal) to make fckw compatible with safe_mode.

The problem is, when php is configured with safe_mode=on, that after editing a page with fckw and saving it, only a blank page is created. It is not possible, with fckw plugin switched on, to go back to an older version, because save will allways result in blank pages.

The reason is, that in fckw/action/save.php the php function shell_exec will not be executed. The call to html2wiki through shell_exec is crucial to the idea that always original dokuwiki syntax files are saved, which I believe is a very important feature!

Here comes the solution which starts after commenting out the shell_exec line in fckw/action/save.php:

        // transform html back into wiki syntax
        //$TEXT = shell_exec('cd '.dirname(__FILE__).'/../lib; echo ' . escapeshellarg($TEXT) . ' | html2wiki -dialect DokuWikiFCKW --base-uri='.DOKU_BASE);

        global $conf;
        $tmpfilehtml = tempnam($conf['cachedir'],'fckwhtml');
        if($handle=fopen($tmpfilehtml,"w")) {
          fwrite($handle,$TEXT);
          fclose($handle);
          $TEXT="";
          chdir(dirname(__FILE__).'/../lib');
          $command = "/usr/local/php_safe_bin/html2wiki --dialect=DokuWikiFCKW --base-uri=" . DOKU_BASE . " " . $tmpfilehtml;
          exec($command,$tmp_array);
          foreach( $tmp_array as $tmp_string ) {
            $TEXT = $TEXT.$tmp_string."\n";
          }
          unlink($tmpfilehtml);
        }
        else {
          return;
        }
 

After editing this file you have also modify your php.ini to allow the execution of html2wiki.
In my installation I need /usr/local/bin/html2wiki to run and /usr/bin/htmldoc, which I use to generate pdf on the fly. Therefore I did the following as root:

mkdir /usr/local/php_safe_bin
cd /usr/local/php_safe_bin
ln -s /usr/local/bin/html2wiki .
ln -s /usr/bin/htmldoc .

In php.ini now:

 safe_mode_exec_dir = /usr/local/php_safe_bin

And of course do not forget to restart the web server.

If you do not need to run programs from more than one directory you can just stick on /usr/local/bin, but edit my changes in fckw/action/save.php where I have used /usr/local/php_safe_bin/html2wiki. But as usual systems are growing the above configuration is always a good idea.

There are still problems with fckw and other plugins:

1. Plugin userpoll
   The syntax of a poll is

   <userpoll [Please rate this page]>
   How did you like this page?
     * 1(excellent)
     * 2
     * 3
     * 4
     * 5
     * 6(useless)
   </userpoll>

   which is completely messed up.

2. Plugin skill
   Syntax:

   {{skill>1/5}}

   Also a mess.

The solution to these problems is probably found in DokuWikiFCKW.pm (which I finally found, see my other post some thread above). I will have a look at it but time is short. So if somebody else is looking for it do not wait for me.

With kind regards,

Oliver Heil

My problem is, that if I change to wiki syntax it all stays "empty". I installed the html::wikiconverter perl files, so I am a bit at a loss here

I have a problem with images.

I upload an image and insert it with the fckw editor. Initially it inserts ok, but when I reload the image disappears.

If I look de wiki code, I found the error: dokuwiki doesn't like the image reference namespace/image.gif, and prefers namespace:image.gif. But fckw applies the first.

I hope that happens the same with internal links.

(A note: the rewrite option is 1: $conf['userewrite'] = 1