I've tried practically everything it feels like, and now I registered for this forum just to get help.
Problem: I have a textarea with a name of "content" in a form, when that form is submitted to a php page, $_POST['content'] (I call it like this for testing only) exists, but is empty. I tried print_r($_POST); and "content" returns empty. When I disable CKEditor, everything works fine.
Here is a snippet of the code I use:
Why would this be? Any help would be much appreciated, and I hope I explained myself well enough.
EDIT: the editor is being called like this
Problem: I have a textarea with a name of "content" in a form, when that form is submitted to a php page, $_POST['content'] (I call it like this for testing only) exists, but is empty. I tried print_r($_POST); and "content" returns empty. When I disable CKEditor, everything works fine.
Here is a snippet of the code I use:
<textarea style="width: 606px; height: 400px;margin-bottom: 5px;overflow: scroll;" id="full_editor" name="content"></textarea>
Why would this be? Any help would be much appreciated, and I hope I explained myself well enough.
EDIT: the editor is being called like this
<script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ if($("#full_editor").length > 0){ $("#full_editor").ckeditor(); } }) </script>
Re: Textarea returning empty in php POST
to get the content from the editor.
Re: Textarea returning empty in php POST
Thanks for the reply btate. I'm not using javascript to handle the form data though? The form is sent to a php page through an Ajax request.
Example shown here:
http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Integration#Step_3:_Saving_the_Editor_Data
Unless you meant something else?
Re: Textarea returning empty in php POST
Yes, completely understand (at least I think I do ) and while I do not use php I use asp in the same way that you are describing. My form post is processed via asp.
So here is how I am doing I am doing it. This is code snippets from a project I am working on to develop a Blog for my customer. Plenty of them out there but they had some unique requirements not normally find in a typical blog.......but I am straying off topic. So, here is my Form coding.