If you have installed FCKeditor as your Drupal 6 editor, you have noticed that the editor is no longer supported and generates RED on your status update page.  FCKeditor has been replaced by CKeditor.   FCKeditor paired with imagebrowser gives one not only a text editor but an upload system for photograph and images to be placed in the text.   So when you remove FCKeditor and upload CKeditor you are in for a little surprise.  Imagebrowser works only with FCKeditor.

So one loses the image upload via the editor without imagebrowser and needs to upload CKFinder to replace imagebrowser.  Good luck with that project, it is next to impossible to accomplish.  But it can be done.  Question is  should you?  CKfinder is a replacement for imagebrowser and gives all the same functionality, but it gives a proprietary plugin of CKSource that requires payment.  I won’t editorialize on what a rotten trick that is by CKSource – you be the judge.

If you do intend to install CKFinder, then be prepared to source edit a couple of files.  The instructions are NOT in the CKFinder Install.txt NOR in the CKeditor install.txt files in the download.  You will find the instructions  in the original download of CKeditor readme.txt file.  I saw so many forum comments and questions on installing CKFinder that I really should go there and give the folks a clue. If CKSource is going to charge for the plugin, then I decided it was not an Open Source problem for me to waste time on.

This does put me into a quandary as to what should be a replacement editor for FCKeditor.  TinyMCE is a good but dated editor that I use on another site but it uses IMCE for image upload.  Just not as good as FCKeditor + Imagebrowser.   After reviewing a number of blogs, the Drupal forum and Drupal Group forums on the issue, I have decided not to decide.  Looks like my best bet is to hold onto FCKeditor and imagebrowser until something better comes along.  For now I will just ignore the RED until a quality system like the one in WordPress 2.9 comes along.