Stylish Blogs with Bitrix Site Manager

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Submitted by bitrix on

After you have installed the v10.0.0 updates for the Site Explorer and Blogs modules, a new visual editor with BBCode support is available in Blogs.

What we can do now:

  • visual editing of blog posts and comments (1)
  • automatic (or manual) expansion of the writing area up to 80% of the screen height (2)
  • all editing features are available in both the visual editing and the BBCode modes (3)
  • hotkeys handling (Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+Q, Tab) (4)
  • new dialog boxes for video and image insertion (5)
  • blog post images can now be resized when displayed (scale size is defined in the component settings)
  • table insertion (6)
  • a new interface for insertion of numbered and bullet lists (7)
  • blog posts can now use a symbolic code rather than the SEF ID (enabled in the component parameters) (8 )
  • video can be embedded in comments (enabled in the component parameters)
  • page for administration of comments added to the Control Panel
  • support of all major browsers
  • good-looking and convenient 

FCKeditor in osCommerce

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Submitted by Bryan on

osCommerce LogoI'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.