Textarea returning empty in php POST

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:

<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>

Thu, 12/16/2010 - 18:48

btate

Joined: 15/07/2009

Posts: 54

Re: Textarea returning empty in php POST

You should be using something like this

editor.getData()

to get the content from the editor.

Thu, 12/16/2010 - 19:00

xtronic02

Joined: 16/12/2010

Posts: 2

Re: Textarea returning empty in php POST

http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Integration#Step_3:_Saving_the_Editor_Data

Thu, 12/16/2010 - 19:55

btate

Joined: 15/07/2009

Posts: 54

Re: Textarea returning empty in php POST

<form name="formBlog" action="index.asp" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="Save">
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<%=idBlog%>">
<input type="hidden" name="idArticle" value="<%=idArticle%>">
<input type="hidden" name="msgBlog" value="">
Blog Group: <%=ddBlogTitle%>
<br>
Article Title: <input type="text" size=100 name="articleTitle" value="<%=strArticleTitle%>">
<br>
<hr>
<Div id="wysiwyg"></div>
</div>
</form>

     editor = CKEDITOR.appendTo( 'wysiwyg',
     {
         skin : 'v2',
         width : <%=pageMainSize%>,
         height : 400,
         font_names: '<%=CKFontNames%>',
         removePlugins: 'elementspath',
         extraPlugins : 'embed,ASPSpellCheck,YouTube',
         resize_enabled: false,
         enterMode: 2, // 1 = <P>, 2= <BR>, 3 = <DIV>
         shiftEnterMode: 1, // 1 = <P>, 2= <BR>, 3 = <DIV>
         toolbar: [
                     ['Source','ASPSpellCheck'],
                     ['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','Print'],
                     ['Undo','Redo','Find','Replace','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
                     ['BidiLtr', 'BidiRtl'],
                     ['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','Subscript','Superscript'],
                     ['NumberedList','BulletedList','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote','CreateDiv'],
                     ['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
                     ['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
                     ['Image','embed','Flash','YouTube','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar'],
                     ['TextColor','BGColor'],
                     ['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks','About'],
                     '/',
                     ['Format','Font','FontSize']
         ]
     });

document.getElementById('msgBlog').value = editor.getData();