Need help with equivalent to updateLinkedEditor and BBCode

Hello all,

I am working on upgrading from 2.x to 3.x for our web application (http://archon.org), and I had previously edited FCKEditor to string replace BBCode and update the related textarea before we submitted via Ajax (using a jQuery form plugin).

Now, the relevant code that I found before was:

for (var i = 0; i < parent.frames.length; ++i )
    if ( parent.frames[i].FCK )
    parent.frames[i].FCK.UpdateLinkedField();

I can't seem to figure out how to do this now. Is there an equivalent for UpdateLinkedField()?

Also, as for the BBCode, I created a custom config file that redefined the FCK.DataProcessor. Here's an excerpt:

FCK.DataProcessor =
{
   ConvertToHtml : function( data )
   {
           ...
           // [url]
           data = data.replace( /\[url\](.+?)\[\/url]/gi, '<a href="$1">$1</a>' ) ;
           data = data.replace( /\[url\=([^\]]+)](.+?)\[\/url]/gi, '<a href="$1">$2</a>' ) ;
           ...
      return '<html><head><title></title></head><body>' + data + '</body></html>' ;
   },

   ConvertToDataFormat : function( rootNode, excludeRoot, ignoreIfEmptyParagraph, format )
   {
           ...
      // [url]
      data = data.replace( /<a .*?href=(["'])(.+?)\1.*?>(.+?)<\/a>/gi, '[url=$2]$3[/url]') ;
           ...
      return data ;
   },
        ...
} ;

I was looking into where I could re-implement this, and I think I would need to edit the CKEDITOR.htmlParser() but I don't know how I would go about doing this within the CKEDITOR code.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Paul

Thu, 09/10/2009 - 21:03

paulnsorensen

Joined: 10/09/2009

Posts: 5

Re: Need help with equivalent to updateLinkedEditor and BBCode

I just got wrote UpdateLinkedEditor() functionality equivalent for jQuery:

function updateeditor()
{
    var textareas = $('textarea');
    $.each(textareas, function () {
        var idname = $(this).attr('id');
        var editor = CKEDITOR.instances[idname];
        $(this).val(editor.getData());
    });
}

This is run right before submitting the form via ajax. So now the only remaining issue is where to edit the CKEditor to add the BBCode support.