This is my first time using a product like CKEditor. I am also very novice in using most coding languages including javascript and php.
I am trying to make a page to edit the content on another page. I have successfully made a page that has the ckeditor on it, and it is pointed at the page I want to edit. I am using the replacebycode example, and I don't understand how to get it to replace the content on my page. I put the code from the posteddata example into my page, and it does post what is in the ckeditor. Problem is that it posts code instead of text, and I can't figure out how to replace what is already there. Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
I am trying to make a page to edit the content on another page. I have successfully made a page that has the ckeditor on it, and it is pointed at the page I want to edit. I am using the replacebycode example, and I don't understand how to get it to replace the content on my page. I put the code from the posteddata example into my page, and it does post what is in the ckeditor. Problem is that it posts code instead of text, and I can't figure out how to replace what is already there. Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
Re: Confused and need help
Yes; code edited in CKeditor will post as code. It is a What You See Is What You Get editor. If you want just plain text, then use a parser server side (Maybe a php one if that's the language you are learning) To format the code into text but if you are sending the post to a database, then you are going to leave it as code if you are going to retrieve it later and display it on a page.
Please elaborate on :
That's pretty vague.
Thanks,
Zanpakutō
Re: Confused and need help
Since reading your post I have figured out that I can use a php include to load an external html file into the desired page and to preload CKeditor and both work well (except that CKedotor doesn't show proper CSS). This allows the most current content to show both places. Now what I want to do is be able to replace the code in the external html file with the edits from the CKeditor. Then I will call it using the php include on the main page.
Am I on the right track, and is it making sense?
Re: Confused and need help
Yeah I get it. You're trying to learn how to do flat file operations with php and use CKeditor to edit before the save operation.
Firstly, I strongly suggest that you either use a database instead or at the very least use php 5's builtin sqlite to store the saves. Flat file is bad IMO in so many ways. I won't go into one about it but I will say that none of the benefits outweigh the security risks involved in flat file content management.
If you really, really must do flat file operations on a web server, then consider learning a php flat file OOP framework instead or using an open source flat file CMS because it will take a huge amount of the pain involved in flat file away from you should you just go from scratch.
Adding your own implementation of CKeditor to either should be trivial after reading and following the example configurations that ship with CKeditor.
I believe to change the editor styles, you should use the config.contentsCss configuration parameter.
Thanks,
Zanpakutō