Colour picker crashes Explorer 5.5

Peekay · Post by **Peekay** » Tue 27. Jul 2004, 15:07

I am using Release 1.1-RC4 22-06-2004
Internet Explorer 5.5
Windows 98

When I select text in WYSIWYG HTML editor and choose 'text colour' button, pop-up window tries to load, then crashes explorer.

I tried out an earlier version of PHPWCMS a week ago (loaded via Fantastico) and this feature worked fine.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Tue 27. Jul 2004, 16:40

hello

did you have no chance to update you browser!?
also wich editor you use?

Peekay · Post by **Peekay** » Tue 27. Jul 2004, 22:29

I use IE 5.5 on an old laptop. Works fine, plus I don't think I can upgrade to any higher version in Windows 98... which also works fine.

I dont' understand your point 'which editor are you using?', do I have a choice? I just selected WYSIWYG HTML.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Tue 27. Jul 2004, 22:33

hello

yes you have look into your conf.inc.php

line 63

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$phpwcms["wysiwyg_editor"]    = 1;        //0 = no wysiwyg editor, 1 = HTMLarea, 2 = FCKeditor, 3 = browser based, 4 = spaw

also there should be no problem to upgrade the ie on an win 98 system at an older notbook.

Peekay · Post by **Peekay** » Tue 27. Jul 2004, 23:34

Oooo!... I didn't know you could do that!

Many thanks for this info Pappnase!. I'll try the other editors.

I know I should upgrade. Maybe at Christmas!

Peekay · Post by **Peekay** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 02:58

Now. I have a big problem with this. I changed the setting to '1' - (HTMLAREA editor) and all works o.k. But after I update the file, when I next try to login to admin, I get 'headers already sent' error.

I searched for this issue in the forum and found a similar problem in this topic:

http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2889

So I posted a comment here as how I resolved this. Are PHPWCMS config files in UNIX format?. Because I shouldn't be able to view them properly in Windows notepad if they are, should I?.

The Wolf · Post by **The Wolf** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 13:08

I'm sure you can use ie6 on Windows 98, but why use IE when you could use firefox?

Peekay · Post by **Peekay** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 14:16

Not really a personal preference Wolf, I have Firefox, we just develop websites using browsers that we know the majority of our clients will use. IE 5.5 on Win 98 is at the lower end of our params. We will abandon it sooner or later, but for the meantime, everything eventually gets tested on 98 and XP.

Nice thing about PHPWCMS is that it also works pretty well on IE and Netscape on Mac OS 9 and Safari on OSX. Mac users don't get the WYSIWYG HTML, but people can still compose articles and use the admin functions. Hope it stays that way!

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 15:04

hello

does not htmlarea works under mac!?

Peekay · Post by **Peekay** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 15:13

No. None of the current Mac web browsers can create HTML formatted content.

Not just in PHPWCMS, but no CMS or webmail applications either AFAIK.

I believe there are some tools under development for Mozilla based browsers but none are available at present, as far as I know.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 15:23

hello

i have talked to someone who use also mac and he says that firefox with the browserbassed editor will work!

Peekay · Post by **Peekay** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 15:29

O.K. Thanks. I'll try that. We only have Firefox on PC at present.

Astonishing that Microsoft, Netscape or Apple themselves haven't been able or willing to include this functionality in their Mac browsers up to date.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Wed 28. Jul 2004, 16:17

hello

sorry i have no mac! but as i hear the browserbased editor should work under all systems, also mac.