alternate access method to content

hi,

I found that the method of getting the content from the editor was too slow (especially if this is used when in non source mode...):

      var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('FCKeditor1') ;
      content = oEditor.GetXHTML(true) ;

so here is an alternate way:

   function GetContents() {
      var iframe1 = document.getElementById('FCKeditor1___Frame');
      var tablecell = iframe1.contentWindow.document.getElementById('xEditingArea');
      var iframe2 = tablecell.childNodes[0];
      var oDoc = iframe2.contentWindow || iframe2.contentDocument;
      if (oDoc.document) {
         oDoc = oDoc.document;
      }
      return oDoc.body.innerHTML;
   }

Regards

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 17:01

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: alternate access method to content

Yes, that's a good idea if you want to get crap instead of the edited content.

Test with different contents and you'll understand why it isn't done that way.

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 17:20

william_

Joined: 16/08/2010

Posts: 27

Re: alternate access method to content

yes, just noticed _fcksavedurl on all urls, which is only problem so far (with limited testing so far I have to admit).
need to disable ProtectUrls function I think.

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 17:31

william_

Joined: 16/08/2010

Posts: 27

Re: alternate access method to content

though I have a workaround (just strip those internal tags) in destination app.
The usage of the editor, here, is for text documents (some with table/positional formatting), with very few hyperlinks, no images and not much actual text formatting. Some times the documents can be a few hundred k in size.

Thanks for comments.

Mon, 10/25/2010 - 15:34

william_

Joined: 16/08/2010

Posts: 27

Re: alternate access method to content

I also had to make a change in the fckeditorcode_ie.js file.

commented out this part:
A=FCK.ProtectEvents(A);A=FCK.ProtectUrls(A);A=FCK.ProtectTags(A);

So as original responder said, this method is not without its problems, but it does make the getting of data at least twice as fast.