Rich Text and PHP?

AliHamra

Hi All !
First of all, i'm looking for an easy Rich text that can be used in PHP code. I tried to google it and i found this :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>

 <title>Untitled</title>
<!-- Skin CSS file -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.0r4/build/assets/skins/sam/skin.css">
<!-- Utility Dependencies -->
<script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.0r4/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script> 
<script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.0r4/build/element/element-min.js"></script> 
<!-- Needed for Menus, Buttons and Overlays used in the Toolbar -->
<script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.0r4/build/container/container_core-min.js"></script>
<script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.0r4/build/menu/menu-min.js"></script>
<script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.0r4/build/button/button-min.js"></script>
<!-- Source file for Rich Text Editor-->
<script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.0r4/build/editor/editor-min.js"></script>


<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
   var myEditor = new YAHOO.widget.Editor('msgpost', {
    height: '300px',
    width: '522px',
    dompath: true, //Turns on the bar at the bottom
    animate: true //Animates the opening, closing and moving of Editor windows
});
myEditor.render();

</script>




</head>



<body class="yui-skin-sam">
<form action="java2.php" method="POST">

<textarea name="haha" id="msgpost" cols="50" rows="10">


</textarea>

<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>






</body>
</html>

Now When i click Submit to go to Java2.php, i can't find the text i wrote in that textarea..Its all blank page !
Lets say i made this inside java2.php

<?php
$haha = $_POST['haha'];
echo $haha;
?>

Sorry, i'm still under learning phase .. I'm not expert or anything, If you guys have any other idea..Share it 🙂 i will appreciate it so much !

Thanks
Ali

TheoGB

Hey,

I've recently run this successfully:
http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm

It's got a tiny overhead, but it's not fully customisable (in terms of what I need). So I'm planning to write my own version that will be very simple and customisable and I'll post it if I get it working. I'm going to use this person's hard work as the basis (and credit them!):

http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial198_Creating-a-Rich-Text-Editor-using-JavaScript.html

As you can see from the comments, it's not been sorted for PHP yet but the information is there. I plan to work on that soon.

laserlight

Personally, I have had a good experience integrating CKEditor. But you do not necessarily have to switch. Your PHP code looks like it will work (even though it is not entirely correct), so chances are the problem lies with your use of your chosen rich text editor. Try an example first, perhaps one that is entirely Javascript based, to check that you did not make a mistake in that area.

AliHamra

I'm still trying to look for a solution..I've checked the Javascript only, and it worked..But when i want to switch it to PHP, and save what's written inside the textarea in a PHP variable..It doesn't even work !:xbones:

Maybe Both don't work?...i don't know what to do.😕
Thanks for the reply guys, i really appreciate it !

TheoGB

That one I linked to first has a PHP example inside the download that works. Try that out, maybe and compare. All of these use very similar systems.

TheoGB

Okay,

I'd be interested in people's thoughts here: I initially rejected TinyMCE because it looked overly complex given how simple it seemed to be to make an RTE.

However, it seems that every browser implements Design Mode completely differently, meaning that the same piece of text will be rendered in completely different HTML. This isn't very good when you consider you want to have usable code for outputting.

Is this just something you have to live with and use a tonne of replacements to parse the code correctly for your own output...and possibly read the browser type in order to reformat for output back to the editor if needs be?

halojoy

The one editor I have used in a couple of my scripts
is a very lightweigth fresh modern javascript.
We should remember (F)CKeditor and TinyMCE are old codes.
And hardly to decribe as being light.

The code I needed for a forum posts BBCode editor using markItUp
was no more than ~120kB all in all!

http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/

markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library.
It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor.
- Html,
- Textile,
- Wiki Syntax,
- Markdown,
- BBcode
- or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.

markItUp! is not meant to be a “Full-Features-Out-of-the-Box”-editor.
Instead it is a very lightweight, customizable and flexible engine made to meet the developer's needs in their CMSes, blogs, forums or websites.
markItUp! is not a WYSIWYG editor, and it never will be.

TheoGB

Hi halojoy,

That's clever but for my users I don't want that sort of entry where they can see the HTML since they won't understand that and will be prone to make mistakes.