ckeditor installation into drupal with imce

As a professional app developer, I faced to install ckeditor into drupal many times. Each times I need to dig again and again to its working. So, now I think I have to write it down that will help me and others too 😉

Install ckeditor into Drupal with IMCE

Its simple two step > Download & Put it into right place, Configure & use.

Download & Put it into right place

1. Download Drupal module of ckeditor from https://drupal.org/project/ckeditor
2. Download Drupal module for IMCE from https://drupal.org/project/imce
3. Put those module into “sites/all/modules” folder or where you think appropriate
4. Now download full version of ckeditor from http://ckeditor.com/download
5. Put full version of ckeditor into “<path where you put your ckeditor drupal module>/” please visit http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_for_Drupal/Open_Source/Drupal_7/Installation for details instruction where to put

That’s it, you are done the first step

Configure & use

Now enable that two module from your Drupal control panel.

1. Fix permission for ckeditor
2. Configure IMCE
3. Configure text format – Administration > Configuration > Content authoring > Text formats
3.a) For Advanced Html >> enable filter “limit allowed html tags” and leave it as it is or put “<a> <p> <div> <h1> <h2> <h3> <img> <hr> <br> <br /> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <em> <b> <u> <i> <strong> <del> <ins> <sub> <sup> <quote> <blockquote> <pre>” allowed or as your requirement
3.b) For Full Html >> enable filter “limit allowed html tags” and put “<a> <abbr> <acronym> <address> <area> <article> <aside> <audio> <b> <bdo> <bgsound> <big> <blockquote> <br> <br /> <button> <canvas> <caption> <center> <cite> <code> <col> <colgroup> <command> <datalist> <dd> <del> <details> <dfn> <div> <dl> <dt> <em> <fieldset> <figcaption> <figure> <font> <footer> <form> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <header> <hgroup> <hr> <hr /> <i> <img> <input> <ins> <kbd> <keygen> <label> <legend> <li> <link> <map> <mark> <marquee> <menu> <meter> <nav> <object> <ol> <optgroup> <option> <output> <p> <param> <pre> <progress> <q> <rp> <rt> <samp> <section> <select> <small> <source> <span> <strong> <sub> <summary> <sup> <table> <tbody> <td> <textarea> <tfoot> <th> <thead> <time> <tr> <tt> <ul> <var> <video> <wbr>” allowed or define tag to allow as your requirement
4. Now configure ckeditor. Specially for file browser settings. Point it to IMCE. Please configure both profile (Full, Advanced)

That’s it. nJoy….

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