Need to know the fastest and siimplest way to get value

I am using jquery...

$('#save').click(function(){
  alert($('#mytextarea').val())
});

The above code does not work. I noticed though that the entire instance of ckeditor is outside of the ending </textarea> tag...

I have already asked the people at experts-exchange.com to no avail...
Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Wed, 05/19/2010 - 20:31

syn4k

Joined: 04/03/2010

Posts: 12

Re: Need to know the fastest and siimplest way to get value

I wrote a custom function in ckeditor/ckeditor_php5.php:

   /**
   * Custom function for retrieving the data of the current editor instance
   * 
   * @param string instance id
   * @return string
   */
   public function getData($id)
   {
      $js = "";
      if (!$this->initialized) {
         $js .= $this->init();
      }
      $js .= $this->returnGlobalEvents();
      $script = "document.write('<div id=\"temp_zone\" style=\"display: none;\"></div>');"
         . "$(document).ready(function(){"
            . '$("input[type=\'submit\']").each(function(i, v){'
               . "$('#' + v.id).click(function(){"
               . "var data = CKEDITOR.instances.$id.getData();"
               . "$('#temp_zone').html(data);"
               . "});"
            . "});"
         . "});";
      $js .= $this->script($script);
      return $js;
   }

Then, where I intialize the ckeditor instance,

$ckeditor = new CKEditor();
$ckeditor->BasePath = 'somepath/ckeditor.php';
$input_str = "<$type id=\"$name\" name=\"$name\""
   . " rows=\"$rows\" cols=\"$cols\">"
   . "$values</$type>";
$input_str .= $ckeditor->editor($name, $values, $configs);
$input_str .= $ckeditor->getData($name);

This feels extraordinarily hackish...but it works well.