External toolbar

Hey,
I am working on a content management system for newsletters and am using FCKeditor for the large textareas.
For this I am having multiple FCKeditor instances, but that case is resolved already.
Each large textarea on the page is replaced with a FCKeditor instance with the same dimensions.
I have removed the normal toolbar, because I just want to see the editor area.
I still want the user to be able to execute some button functions, but then on an external toolbar, which I'll position on the left top side.

I have been working for hours on this matter, so that's why I've turned to the forum now.
I can't figure out which function to call to actually execute a button outside the FCKeditor area.

ps.
The only commands I want to work are the NamedCommands (ie. Bold, Italic etc).

Your help would be much appreciated.

-Stef Henderson

Tue, 04/26/2005 - 11:45

fiendofmine

Joined: 11/03/2005

Posts: 15

RE: External toolbar

Via FCK API (you only need to figure how to tell the toolbar which editors iframe it should operate)

examine fckcommands.js and search for
FCKCommands.GetCommand function. In its switch statement you'll find all the editor's commands and ways they need to be initialized. Mind the difference between formatting actions dealt by browsers internally (those are initialized via FCKNamedCommand( commandsName )) and the ones that are editor's constructions (like FCKTableCommand)

Mon, 04/25/2005 - 12:46

stripe-man

Joined: 30/11/2006

Posts: 143

RE: External toolbar

how did u seperate the toolbar?

Tue, 04/26/2005 - 00:09

sh1000

Joined: 25/04/2005

Posts: 2

RE: External toolbar

I just removed some pieces of code from several files, so the toolbar isn't shown and doesn't cause errors.
My question is thus how to call the button functions outside the FCKeditor area.

Thu, 09/14/2006 - 19:22

dario_dee

Joined: 21/09/2006

Posts: 7

Easy way to seperate toolbar

<?php
// Automatically calculates the editor base path based on the _samples directory.
// This is usefull only for these samples. A real application should use something like this:
// $oFCKeditor->BasePath = '/fckeditor/' ;    // '/fckeditor/' is the default value.
$sBasePath = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ;
$sBasePath = substr( $sBasePath, 0, strpos( $sBasePath, "_samples" ) ) ;

$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('FCKeditor1') ;
$oFCKeditor->BasePath    = $sBasePath ;
$oFCKeditor->Value        = 'This is some <strong>sample text</strong>. You are using <a href="<a href="http://www.fckeditor.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fckeditor.net/</a>">FCKeditor</a>.' ;
$oeZeditor->Config['ToolbarLocation'] = 'Out:xToolbar' ; 
$oFCKeditor->Create() ;
?>