I'm spending time Friday and this weekend upgrading the software I use to run CMSReport.com. You'll have to excuse the mess as I'm working with a lot of themes/modules for Drupal 6 that are still under development. Feel free to report problems below, but note that the WYSIWYG for comments is currently offline. working but considered under "test mode".

Bryan

I'm in the middle of switching the text editor on CMS Report from FCKeditor to TinyMCE. Both are fine WYSIWYG editors, but I have seen some problems lately so this is a good time to try something different. The text editor is available to those who have open a free account here at CMS Report. The CSS in the Drupal theme I'm using isn't quite compatible with the TinyMCE editor so I'll be doing some tweaking in the next week or so.

During the past few months, I've been getting inquiries about how to place an ad on this site. If you are one of those people, I'm sorry if I haven't gotten back to you in a timely manner. I've been a little more focused on just getting the content out there as well as working on some usability issues for visitors here at the site. I plan on looking at some options and in a couple weeks should have a "how to place ads" page up here at CMSReport.com. If someone would like suggest an option, please feel free to leave a comment here or send an e-mail through the contact page.

As always, I'm open to suggestions for improving the site as well as criticism. A lot of people in IT don't like to hear complaints, but I'm not one of those people. Without good quality criticism, it's difficult make necessary improvements.

"This is mainly a "stabilization" release of version 2.4. The Enter Key Handler has now a consistent behavior and many small bugs have also been fixed. Upgrade from version 2.4 is highly recommended."

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"Amazing numbers! After only 6 months of the announcement of our first million downloads, another half a million can now be added to that incredible milestone. Yes, one and a half million downloads [of FCKeditor]!"

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"This version /2.3.2/ is another important step to consolidate the well known quality of FCKeditor. Bugs have been fixed and a few interesting new features are being introduced."

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In case you missed the news, the Website for FCKeditor is now using the Drupal content management system (CMS). FCKeditor is a HTML text editor with a WYSIWYG interface and is commonly utilized in Web-based applications. The following was posted at the FCKeditor site:

We're proud to announce that, from today, the FCKeditor web site is running over Drupal, one of the best Open Source CMSs out there. After a long research, Drupal has proved to be the best solution to handle our half a million page views monthly, with flexibility and reliability.

This important change will make it possible to provide even better services to our community.

Ironically, the Drupal module for the FCKeditor hasn't been fully released for Drupal 4.7, the latest version of the CMS. The module documentation for 4.7 cites that the "integrated file management needs lot of manual configuration". Luckily for Drupal 4.7 users, the Drupal module for TinyMCE has been available for some time. TinyMCE is an alternative HTML text editor and in some ways could be considered FCKeditor's "main competitor". Here at CMS Report...we like both editors fairly evenly.

I'm working on an ecommerce site using osCommerce to enable the shopping cart functionality for my client's online store. This is the first time I've used osCommerce so I'm still working on improving my comfort level with the application. osCommerce is open source and released under the GNU General Public License. According to the osCommerce site:

osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 106,100 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 3,500 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.

Those numbers are impressive, but in my opinion the coding practices of the application are definitely showing its six year legacy of software development. While I have found osCommerce to work out-of-the-box, I must say that I'm surprised that most mods require hacking into the core application. I've been spoiled by working with more "modern" CMS applications with convenient API's and making changes through modules/plugins instead of modifying the core. However, I'm a newbie to osCommerce so maybe there is more to it than meets the eye.

osCommerce by default does not offer a graphical text editor for entering descriptions of products. While my client does know a little bit of HTML, he would prefer to have a WYSIWYG user interface. So naturally I looked at using TinyMCE or FCKeditor to edit the textareas. I like and have used both text editors, but decided to use FCKeditor for this project. No particular reason I chose FCKeditor over TinyMCE except that I didn't need two editors.

• Geeklog 1.4.0sr5-1 is available as a complete tarball, as an upgrade from 1.4.0sr5, and as a combo update from any previous 1.4.0 release.
• Geeklog 1.3.11sr7-1 is available as an upgrade from 1.3.11sr7 and as a combo update from any previous 1.3.11 release.

Please note that when using the 1.4.0 "combo" update, you will also have to remove some files to fix the security issue with FCKeditor's file manager, as explained in the included README file."

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