Drupal struggles
I don’t know if it is my luck or just because I like to use Drupal modules that aren’t quite right yet. I’ve been trying to get the TinyMCE or FCKEditor modules for version 6 of Drupal to work right this week with little success. Thus far the TinyMCE modules is the closest to working, which is sad because everything I’ve read says it should be giving me more trouble than the FCKEditor module. The issues I’m having I can’t find documented anywhere. When I try to add/edit a profile in FCKEditor I get a 400 message from the server. No idea why. It is sort of maddening. I’d really like to get FCKEditor to work because it has better upload functionality and niftier features. Not to mention I’m writing a plugin for it because we use it as part of our library website CMS. Being able to use the same plugin elsewhere would be a plus.
I love working with open source software but some days, I just want things to work or to be able to easily and quickly fix the problem. Not that I haven’t had my share of experience with commercial software where something didn’t work the way I wanted or didn’t work period and had a vendor tell me I’d have to wait until the next release for it to be fixed. Sigh.
Some days you just have to settle for micro-steps forward (ie. knowing that a certain tool should have the functionality you want).
I’ve had more luck with BUeditor and IMCE.