Insert text at cursor position?

After many hours of searching I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. I don't want to use tinyMCE, but it does give me the ability to insert a text field selected "on click" from within the same form.

I think it has to do with this function:
FCKeditor.prototype._InsertHtmlBefore = function( html, element )

I am not clear about how to construct the syntax so that it works. Here is the line I attempted...

<tr>
<td>
<?PHP echo _("Contact") . "<BR>" . $contacts_menu; ?>
</td>
<td><a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="FCKeditor.prototype._InsertHtmlBefore('{'+document.forms[0].email_template_body.value+'}','{'+document.forms[0].contacts_fields.value+'}');"><?php echo _("Add");?></a></td>
</tr>


Here is the setup for the FCKeditor field:
<?php
$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('email_template_body') ;
$oFCKeditor->BasePath = $http_site_root.'/include/fckeditor/'; //$include_directory . 'fckeditor/' ;
$oFCKeditor->Value = $email_template_body ;
$oFCKeditor->Height = '300';
$oFCKeditor->Create() ;
?>

In tinyMCE when add button is selected, the contact_fields item selected in the dropdown is inserted into the textarea where the cursur was last selected.

Thanks in advance!

It's very easy, use the API: http://wiki.fckeditor.net/Developer%27s ... script_API and call the InsertHtml

It is not as "simple" as you think. After more than 4 hours of hacking to try to make everything I have read work in PHP it still does not work.

I admit I am a novice when it comes to javascript, but it baffles me that I can't find a "simple" example for inputting dynamic text using PHP in FCKeditor on the internet anywhere.

I am able to replicate the example8.html but that doesn't help me because the text I am trying to insert is dynamic in the form. It would be really useful if you could point me to a place where I can get an example that works.

Thanks!

The key is that you can't do that in PHP, it must be done in javascript. So use sample8 as a base and set the javascript string from the php code, and then use javascript to insert that string.

I'm trying to do the same thing, basically I have pre-formatted sets of text that i want to add to the text editor by clicking on a link, I have tried this, but as expected it did not work

$buff.=  "<a href=\"javascript:oEditor.InsertHtml('hello');\">hello</a>

this gives an error, oEditor is not defined , I'm also using fckeditor with PHP , it would be really nice to get some help with this , because it is vital for a function i'm working on...

thanks for the help.

From sample08:

function InsertHTML()
{
   // Get the editor instance that we want to interact with.
   var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('FCKeditor1') ;

   // Check the active editing mode.
   if ( oEditor.EditMode == FCK_EDITMODE_WYSIWYG )
   {
      // Insert the desired HTML.
      oEditor.InsertHtml( '- This is some <a href="/Test1.html">sample<\/a> HTML -' ) ;
   }
   else
      alert( 'You must be on WYSIWYG mode!' ) ;
}

to alfonsoml

sorry for my previous post, I didn't take a look at example 8, once I had seen that it all got clear to me, tnx again and sorry for the stupid post!!