Problem with E-mail quoting

Hello,

first thanks for the awesome FCKEditor, it's a really nice piece of work.

I am currently programming a lightweight email client with HTML email functionality in mind.

The problem is, how can I quote HTML message displayed in FCKEditor (so it will add a '>' character at the beginning of each line of the email)?

This is really easy to do in plaintext, but in FCKEditor it's not that easy - I've been playing with this for a while now (some JavaScript hacks, etc...), but I haven't come up with a solution right now.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Have a nice day.

M.

Tue, 07/08/2008 - 21:47

phire_sk

Joined: 08/07/2008

Posts: 29

Re: Problem with E-mail quoting

Not really sure what you're asking. Maybe if you clarify this sentence?

The problem is, how can I quote HTML message displayed in FCKEditor (so it will add a '>' character at the beginning of each line of the email)?

That may help to understand the problem.

Wed, 07/09/2008 - 14:13

mireque

Joined: 08/07/2008

Posts: 3

Re: Problem with E-mail quoting

Ok, I will try to explain. Suppose you've got a plaintext email message - if you do reply, it's obvious that your preferred email client quotes each line of the message you're about to reply with a '>' character - ie. the character gets inserted at the beginning of each line of the message, in this context.

Message:

Hello John,
how are you?

Jane

And if I reply, I will obviously get the following message:

--- Jane wrote: ---
>Hello John,
>how are you?
>
>Jane

Maybe you're just misunderstanding what I mean by "E-mail quoting" - I'm used to call it this way, maybe I am wrong (correct me please).

Thanks for your help.

Wed, 07/09/2008 - 15:37

phire_sk

Joined: 08/07/2008

Posts: 29

Re: Problem with E-mail quoting

Most likely you are sending the data from FCKEditor to a script that will send the email. You could code the script to add in the '>' symbols in front of each line. The only problem you will have to solve is how you want to break up the whole message into lines. You may want to make substrings that are all a certain length, say 25 characters and then store each of these substrings into an array. You can append to the front of the substrings the '<' symbol. Then you could send that data with your email script.

I don't think you can do it with just FCKEditor, this is something you'll code AFTER the data is sent from the editor to your script.

Wed, 07/09/2008 - 16:10

mireque

Joined: 08/07/2008

Posts: 3

Re: Problem with E-mail quoting

Thanks for your reply.

It should not be after, but before, because the user wants to see the "quoted" message when composing. You know, the input the FCKEditor gets in my email application is in pure HTML. The problem is, that I haven't figured out how to properly (pre)parse it to know what each line of it (HTML) exactly looks like (you know there could be DIVs, SPANs, line-breaks, etc...) - so I thought that some kind of direct manipulation via FCKEditor would insert the characters I need, to the right place ;-)

But if you know about something (in PHP) that can properly handle HTML input and gives me array of all lines of that HTML, please let me know. I'd very grateful.

Have a nice day.