wysiwyg editor and patTemplate

[ford]

How does one go about getting patTemplate and wysiwyg editors to work together? How does the PHP code look like? Any help would be deeply appreciated!

Cheers from

Ford

[Vimes]

As it happens I've been experimenting with this today, trying to feed the editor into a template, unfortunately editorArea appears to be a javascript function (I should have figured that out just by looking at content.html.php, duh!) rather than something that lives in joomla.php or one of the other wonderful little scripts that come with J!.

I'll be following this thread.

[goetzi]

Has anyone solved this problem? I also wanted to integrate the WYSIWYG-Editor into a pattemplate, but I didn't get it running.

[Vimes]

Nope

[ford]

Still no one who has a clue on what to do? It would be a real pity if this remains unsolved ...... 

Cheers

Ford

[wene]

sorry, but i dont use wyg editors ...

[louis.landry]

I found some serious flaws in the way this is handled in the 1.0.x series when trying to use patTemplate.  This is why i've changed the system to use a class called JEditor in 1.1

The main problem i ran into is that the editor functions echo code instead of returning it.  By echoing the code to the output buffer they do not allow you to insert it into the patTemplate object.  One way to get around this may be to capture the output using the php output buffer methods, though i haven't played with it.

Louis

[ford]

Okay, thanks for your reply. I'll have a look at this JEditor stuff.

Dang - it's a bit annoying since I was just getting familiar with patTemplate whilst rewriting my component. But patTemplate is still useful though and has some nice advantages.

Cheers

Ford 

[audienceone]

The main problem i ran into is that the editor functions echo code instead of returning it.  By echoing the code to the output buffer they do not allow you to insert it into the patTemplate object.  ...

Exactly! Until a core solution is decided or reached, another way to go around this problem is create a function for yourself/component to initialize the template and give you the correct code to push into patTemplate.

All you have to do is lift the code from the editor.php that initializes the editor bots and change the echo code to return. I have already done this (before stumbling upon this thread) on a component I was working on. And of course change a few variables to make sure I can initialize editors inside the logic codes to patTemplate.

If anyone is interested, just give this thread a bump or pm me and i'll post the little hack and implementation

[AndromAK]

hi Audienceone !!

I think using pattemplates is a very good thing, because when html and php code are together, it's very ugly. Pat template is a very elegant way to do. But joomla is not yet prepared to it. There is too much echoooes functions.

But I am very interested about using wysiwyg editor with pattemplates.

could you show us the hack to do so?

because I can't find how to do with patTemplate without hack...

Thanks

(excuse me for my poor english!!!  )

[Maik]

If anyone is interested, just give this thread a bump or pm me and i'll post the little hack and implementation

i am interestedt

runing j107 an ark_cornerdemo not getting any editor in the frontend to work

can anybody hep?

thx
Maik

[davidrrm]

This is the code I use to return an "HTMLEditor" string that I then add to the template as a variable.

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	// Returns the editor area as a text string for inclusion in a template
function editorAreaText( $name, $content, $hiddenField, $width, $height, $col, $row ) {
    global $mainframe, $_MAMBOTS, $my;

    $ret = "";
		
    // ensure editor-xtd bots are loaded only once
    if (!defined( '_JOS_EDITORXTD_INCLUDED' )) {
        define( '_JOS_EDITORXTD_INCLUDED', 1 );
        $_MAMBOTS->loadBotGroup( 'editors-xtd' );
    }
		
    $mainframe->set( 'loadEditor', true );

    $results = $_MAMBOTS->trigger( 'onEditorArea', array( $name, $content, $hiddenField, $width, $height, $col, $row ) );
        foreach ($results as $result) {
            if (trim($result)) {
                $ret .= $result;
            }
        }
		
    return $ret;
}

It's just the existing editorArea() code but creates a string rather than echoing the results. It could probably be done more elegantly with output buffers, but I didn't try that.

david

[Vimes]

Looks like a fab idea, unfortunately $name isn't being seen and the text area is simply returning "". (Your mileage may vary).

Gonna haveta dig deepa, I think.

Edit: Strangely enough, when I call editorArea, the same thing happens, although other forms are fine.

[Alejo]

So, is there really no solution to this?

[Alejo]

I will have to answer myself

I had tried several things, including the extended Php funtion for patTemplate that allows php code inside templates, but it did not always load the editor, especially in Firefox. To add to that, I really need to load the editor through xajax, and in that case it was not loading the editor at all. So I did some searching and found this page:

http://wiki.xajaxproject.org/Tips_and_Tricks:tinyMCE

and it works! At least it displays the editor, I have not tried submitting anything yet, but I thought I would share it here. I just have an empty div in patTemplate and send the editor to that div using xajax.

The only thing is that am not able to use the initEditor() to load the editor javascript. So right now I added this code to the template:

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		<script type="text/javascript" src="{LIVE_SITE}/mambots/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_src.js"></script>
		<script type="text/javascript">	
		tinyMCE.init({mode : "none"});
                </script>

And then followed the example in the link above.

I will continue playing with it to see if I can use Joomla's built in editor functions to load the javascript.

[Alejo]

Ok, I got as far as figuring out that:

$mainframe->set( 'loadEditor', true );

loads the editor javascript, but that's it, if anyone has more luck in getting this to work without having it tied to a single editor please post the solution here.