CKEditor isn't changing textarea value when saving!!

When I click save, the value returned does not reflect any changes I made. For instance, I have it setup to default display "hello" but if I change it to "something else" the post data is still "hello". I must just be doing something wrong. Can anyone pinpoint the problem? Here is my code:

 <?php
 if(isset($_POST['block1'])) {
   print $_POST['block1'];
}
?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
          <head>
              <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery.min.js"></script>
              <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
              <script type="text/javascript" src="/_mysite/scripts/core.js"></script>
               <script type="text/javascript" src="/_mysite/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
              <script type="text/javascript" src="/_mysite/ckeditor/adapters/jquery.js"></script>
          </head>

          <body>
              <script type="text/javascript">
              $(document).ready(function(){
                  $("textarea#ckeditor").ckeditor(function() { }, { resize_enabled : false });
              });
              </script>
              <form method="post" action="<?php print $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>">
                  <textarea cols="" rows="" name="block1" id="ckeditor">Hello</textarea>
              </form>
          </body>
      </html>

Wed, 03/16/2011 - 20:04

colin3440

Joined: 26/02/2011

Posts: 5

Re: CKEditor isn't changing textarea value when saving!!

Still not sure why it was doing this but I fixed the problem... If you're having the same problem just try using the not jQuery method of initiating the box. I think ckeditor is still having problems with jquery or maybe the jquery version is designed only for submitting forms with ajax? But then why is the save plugin not designed for saving with ajax? I'm not sure but just add this after your textarea and remove the jquery initiator:

CKEDITOR.replace( 'ckeditor-textarea' );

Fri, 04/13/2012 - 20:23

jbreslow

Joined: 06/10/2008

Posts: 22

Re: CKEditor isn't changing textarea value when saving!!

I was just having this exact same problem. I changed the following code...

var content = $j('#CMSeditor').val();

to this and it worked...

var content = CKEDITOR.instances.CMSeditor.getData();
// where 'CMSeditor' is the ID of the textarea