FCKEditor appears outside of form object

I am including the following function to create the FCKEditor box in a form. The function is part of a class, and the entire form is displayed later when $this->form_content is echoed by a display function.

The problem is that the FCKEditor is appearing as soon as the object is created and therefore appears in the html above the form, rather than appearing in the proper location when the form is created and displayed.

Is anyone able to please help me?
Thanks,
Adam

function fckeditor($field_id,$text='',$required="0") {
include_once(INCLUDE_PATH."/FCKeditor/fckeditor.php");
$form_field="<tr><td><label for=\"$field_id\" class=\"$class_l\">".constant(strtoupper($field_id))."$star:</label></td>";
$form_field.="<td>";
$this->oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor($field_id);
$this->oFCKeditor->BasePath = "/private/includes/FCKeditor/";
$form_field.=$this->oFCKeditor->Create();
$form_field.="</td></tr>\n";
$this->form_content.=$form_field;
return;
}

Tue, 06/14/2005 - 13:51

stephenrs

Joined: 04/06/2005

Posts: 40

RE: FCKEditor appears outside of form object

i think the Create() function handles the display of the editor, so if you're using PHP (and it looks like you are), you could try to use output buffering to store the output of the Create() function as a string to be displayed when you needed it.

the PHP funcs you'll need to work with start with "ob_", such as: ob_start(), ob_get_contents(), etc. check the php manual for more info, but your code would look something like:

...
$this->oFCKeditor->BasePath = "/private/includes/FCKeditor/";

ob_start();
$this->oFCKeditor->Create();
$form_field = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

...etc...

i hope this nudges you in the right direction...

Tue, 06/14/2005 - 14:35

mcukstorm

Joined: 05/06/2005

Posts: 126

RE: FCKEditor appears outside of form object

In the PHP integration script there is also a function called CreateHtml which returns the html used to display the editor. This is a bit simpler than messing around with output buffers.

example:
$this->oFCKeditor->BasePath = "/private/includes/FCKeditor/";
$form_field = $this->oFCKeditor->CreateHtml();

Tue, 06/14/2005 - 14:48

stephenrs

Joined: 04/06/2005

Posts: 40

RE: FCKEditor appears outside of form object

hey, that's good to know

Wed, 06/15/2005 - 00:03

adam5532

Joined: 12/06/2005

Posts: 2

RE: FCKEditor appears outside of form object

Thanks greatly for the help! CreateHtml worked!
- Adam