[SOLVED] TinyMCE showing up some of the time

The admin TinyMCE and the rest of the TinyMCE work seperately. I don't think that the admin one ever turns off, but if in your personal pref you turn TinyMCE off, it won't show up on the Add New Story, Review, ect pages.

Try changing them to off in your personal pref and then back on.

Check phpmyadmin to see what it says.

See if anyone else is having this problem on your site.

Have tried turning on and off a number of times and no help. All other members i have spoke to reporting the same. The tinymce box is visible, with a big tick in but no toolbars are visible. They were there yesterday and no settings have been changed.

I will go to myphpadmin, but i am not entirely sure what i am looking for in there, can you give me a nudge in the direction i should go please?? My experience in myphpadmin is fairly limited and it makes me nervous playing around in there.

It looks like your custom tinyMCE code is buggy.  The quotes have been changed to "  You'll need to edit it.

I did as you suggested, edited the code in the settings for TinyMCE Configuration when i unchecked the tinymCE option the code looked like this

tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: "advanced", language: "en", browsers: "msie, gecko, opera", plugins: "advhr, advimage, advlink, contextmenu, preview, searchreplace, paste, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, separator, sub, sup, charmap, separator, center, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, styleselect, formatselect, separator, bullist, numlist", theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut, copy, paste, pastetext, pasteword, separator, undo, redo, separator, link, unlink, advimage, advhr, cleanup, help, preview, code, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons3: "", extended_valid_elements: "a[name|href|target|title|onclick]", theme_advanced_status_location: "bottom", theme_advanced_resizing: "true", theme_advanced_path: "false" }); 

with all the "  as you said

so i edited it in notepad to make it look like this:

tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: "advanced", language: "en", browsers: "msie, gecko, opera", plugins: "advhr, advimage, advlink, contextmenu, preview, searchreplace, paste, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, separator, sub, sup, charmap, separator, center, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, styleselect, formatselect, separator, bullist, numlist", theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut, copy, paste, pastetext, pasteword, separator, undo, redo, separator, link, unlink, advimage, advhr, cleanup, help, preview, code, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons3: "", extended_valid_elements: "a[name|href|target|title|onclick]", theme_advanced_status_location: "bottom", theme_advanced_resizing: "true", theme_advanced_path: "false" }); 

I tried doing it with both tinymce on and off and either way after i hit submit, it is still not showing up in story edit pages

Copy that and paste it in the tinyMCE field using phpmyadmin.

In another post I remember it being said that TinyMCE had to be off if you try to change the settings. That makes sense, since tinyMCE automatically changes things into code if you submit anything with it on. So no matter how many times you change it, it will automatically change it back into code. Maybe it's not really off, or still putting the code through the changer. I've always changed my code through phpmyadmin.

In phpmyadmin open the settings table. I'd walk you through every step, but my phpmyadmin isn't loading right now. Basically, in the settings table there's a TinyMCE field. When you browse the table, you should see the default messages you have for the site (Welcome, Accept and Reject, TinyMCE settings). Edit the one that keeps the TinyMCE and replace the code in it with the one you want to use. Submit/add/OK.

That should fix it as long as the code you put in it is right. 🙂

Actually, if you use phpmyadmin you want to change the tinyMCE row in the messages table not in the settings table.

yes, found it in the messages table  😀

and this is what it currently looks like:

tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: "advanced", language: "en", browsers: "msie, gecko, opera", plugins: "advhr, advimage, advlink, contextmenu, preview, searchreplace, paste, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, separator, sub, sup, charmap, separator, center, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, styleselect, formatselect, separator, bullist, numlist", theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut, copy, paste, pastetext, pasteword, separator, undo, redo, separator, link, unlink, advimage, advhr, cleanup, help, preview, code, fullscreen", theme_advanced_buttons3: "", extended_valid_elements: "a[name|href|target|title|onclick]", theme_advanced_status_location: "bottom", theme_advanced_resizing: "true", theme_advanced_path: "false" }); 

okay, just did another refresh and it is back, and i didnt even get around to the editing of the myphpadmin so i have no idea what is going on now.

It disappeared like that too, was there, then gone for no apparent reason since nobody had screwed with the settings and now it is back.... very strange

hopefully it will stay behaving  and thanks to both tammy and Jan for your efforts

Welcome. Maybe it's just something with your server. I had my TinyMCE disapear once. In a panic I reuploaded it... hasn't disapeared since.

Had this exact problem when trying to get it to work, and it was because I didn't turn tinyMCE off while changing the config, so all my quote marks got changed into their HTML equivalents.  Ended up changing it via myphpadmin before my lil oversight was pointed out.  Definitely one of those 'D'oh!' moments  😀