ok -- i am down to the last thing in my evealuation of editors... tinymce vs ckeditor
this has many features that make it a winner, but there are 2 (two) things we need, one main thing is an 'autosave' feature a non-techy, guy can add to this that will actually work...
i have read the forums and found a couple of instances where people have made up such a thing - but there is no documentation for the noobs on the planet that have no eartly idea where these 'snippets' mentioned could possible go...
is there an autosave plug in availabe for this?
if not can someone please tell me how the 'hack' - the modification mentioned that i replied to - can actually be added?
we cannot risk losing our work, or our clietns losing theirs -- we all know, this can heppen - a simple phone call and you are drawn from your work and come back and it is 'gone'...
autosave would surely prevent this horrible lost periods of time!
thank you
this has many features that make it a winner, but there are 2 (two) things we need, one main thing is an 'autosave' feature a non-techy, guy can add to this that will actually work...
i have read the forums and found a couple of instances where people have made up such a thing - but there is no documentation for the noobs on the planet that have no eartly idea where these 'snippets' mentioned could possible go...
is there an autosave plug in availabe for this?
if not can someone please tell me how the 'hack' - the modification mentioned that i replied to - can actually be added?
we cannot risk losing our work, or our clietns losing theirs -- we all know, this can heppen - a simple phone call and you are drawn from your work and come back and it is 'gone'...
autosave would surely prevent this horrible lost periods of time!
thank you
Re: honest-to-goodness autosave?
Those are the parts that will make your CMS different than the rest.
The client part just needs a js interval timer that calls the getData() method of your instance and then posts it to your server, it's just that simple (of course you can then start improving that).
Re: honest-to-goodness autosave?
Re: honest-to-goodness autosave?
There is also an Autosave Plugin for CKEditor. Please have a look at - http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24128
Re: honest-to-goodness autosave?
The trigger is a piece of javascript code ( setTimeout() ) that can be on an iframe on the page where your ckeditor textarea is located. At regular interval, it will be retrieving the content of the textarea and submit it to a server-side programme.
You need a server-side page that inserts the content of the textarea that contains the content into a database table. The database table requires the story id you are dealing with, the date when it is saved and a LONGTEXT/MEMO/CLOB type field to store the html. An alternative could be to save into a Text or XML file.
Then you need a small programme to view and retrieve the saved versions.
So the difficulty in adding this as a piece of built-in functionality in ckeditor is that you need to have a piece of code for each language. IMO since some people find it hard to get the basic javascript working, getting the server-side with table creation, and the variety of languages would more than likely be a headache to support.
We implemented an auto save in our CMS at least 4 years ago (V2.6 and prior) and we have adapted it for the latest CK version. We use Coldfusion 9.
Re: honest-to-goodness autosave?
I built autosave into our older sites with fckeditor. I also use CF8, can you give me some examples on how you updated it to work with the newer ckeditor?