Adding custom features

Hi all,

I'm currently using a heavily customized verison of HTMLArea 2.0 in a CMS.

How easy would it be for me to implement the following features in FCKEditor?

1. Lots of configurable filtering on pasted HTML (i.e. restricting the HTML to only certain user-defined tags, filtering out CSS)
2. Ideally I'd also like to filter out tags even if the user enters them in the HTML Source View.
3. Forcing the HTML to be contained in tags, or forcing the contents to NOT be contained in tags
4. Converting to 
5. Forcing the contents all on one line (i.e. filtering out and )

How much of this can I do with a plugin? Is there a another modular way to do this? I'd like to avoid getting into a situation wher I have to add these features in by hand every time I want to upgrade to a newer version of FCKEditor.

Thx,
Eli

Wed, 05/11/2005 - 13:59

mcukstorm

Joined: 05/06/2005

Posts: 126

RE: Adding custom features

There are of course disadvantages to this in that the client wont notice what has been stripped until the data has been posted back to the server.

Wed, 05/11/2005 - 13:57

mcukstorm

Joined: 05/06/2005

Posts: 126

RE: Adding custom features

I'd say you were best of doing all that server side, in something like PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Perl or Coldfusion, you should be able to do all that processing in a few lines. If you really dont want something to be saved back you dont want to be doing the processing client side as it is open to abuse.

Wed, 05/11/2005 - 14:05

eli867

Joined: 06/05/2005

Posts: 3

RE: Adding custom features

Grant,

I totally agree -- and I am checking most of these rules on the server-side too -- but the problem is that wihtout some javascript, the user can't see any of these filtering rules in action until they submit the form.

Lets say a user copies HTML from another website that is full of changes and CSS, and then pastes it into the editor. I want the user to see that 90% of the formatting is being stripped out while they are still editing.

Eli

Sun, 05/22/2005 - 21:20

mavinint

Joined: 22/05/2005

Posts: 2

RE: Adding custom features

Has anyone worked out how to add their own custom functionality to the editor, like buttons and overriding existing files like fck.forms.html

It would be great if someone knows how to do this.

Danny

Wed, 05/11/2005 - 14:24

mcukstorm

Joined: 05/06/2005

Posts: 126

RE: Adding custom features

The plugin interface doesnt have much documention yet but you may be able to do it via this, you can attach to events in the FCKEditor, whether any of these event are of any use im not sure, but it may be possible. Judging by the lack of response to previous pleas for help on plugins, im guessing that not many people know much about this interface yet, so you would have to do some digging in the example plugin and the editor source to find out more.

Wed, 05/11/2005 - 18:09

xenden

Joined: 08/04/2006

Posts: 321

RE: Adding custom features

I haven't tried it yet, but there IS a plugin in the "tracker" section caleed 'clean html' or some such.

Sounds mighty interesting to you. ;-)

Bet you guessed "caleed" was spoze to be "called", neh? :-p