Problems with AJAX and FCK

Hi
I wrote a plugin that does the following:
You click a button and with a thickbox effect there appear some forms. User can enter some stuff and when the ok button is clicked the things are supposed to go into the editor. The Problem:

FCK.InsertHtml(text);

This doesn't work, as somehow I don't have access. Is this just a general restriction or do I just not do it right?

Mon, 12/03/2007 - 18:50

lake

Joined: 01/08/2007

Posts: 96

Re: Problems with AJAX and FCK

I've done a couple of the same types of plugins and I'm assuming from your ajax and thickbox references you're using the thickbox to open an iframe and then try to display the content through there. If this is the case I think you'll need window.parent.FCK. You also may be using the wrong object. Unfortunately without any examples it's hard to answer correctly. Hope this helps, if not post some code and I'll try again . Good luck

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 21:31

rapsli

Joined: 13/11/2007

Posts: 7

Re: Problems with AJAX and FCK

hello
Thanks for the answer. Ok, I'll be more specific:

In my Plugin, when I press the button:

parent.parent.tb_show("Neuer Bibliolink",FCKConfig.BaseURL+"whizzywig/display_add_book");//since we are in two iframes

This opens a thickbox layer where I do some stuff. With this code here I want to take the stuff from the thickbox layer back to the editor

window.parent.FCK.InsertHtml(biblio_link);

I though get the following error:

window.parent.FCK has no properties

Any ideas?

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 22:38

lake

Joined: 01/08/2007

Posts: 96

Re: Problems with AJAX and FCK

ah, I see what you're doing, I did something similar but i didn't try to insert the html back into the editor. Your parent document doesn't have access to the iframes' FCK object so I believe that's why it doesn't have any properties. You could try this, not sure if it will work:

parent.parent.FCK = FCK;
parent.parent.tb_show("Neuer Bibliolink",FCKConfig.BaseURL+"whizzywig/display_add_book");//since we are in two iframes

// AFTER YOU'RE DONE DOING SOME THINGS try:
FCK.InsertHtml(biblio_link);

I'm pretty sure when you open thickbox it is not opening an iframe with the way you implemented it. So you shouldn't have to do window.parent from the thickbox.

I'm assuming this will set the parent.parent.FCK to the relevant FCK Object and allow you to call it's functions. I'm also assuming that it will still have access to the correct iframe...a lot of assumptions. Good luck.

Mon, 01/07/2008 - 21:23

rapsli

Joined: 13/11/2007

Posts: 7

Re: Problems with AJAX and FCK

Hello
I found a workaround, but it's not too good. Now I really have to solve the problem. Maybe if I clearify the problem:

As above I open a form with Thickbox. It's though not in an Iframe but in a div. Well, in that div there is as I said a form. When I press the submit button, the following thing should happen:

   $('#fnbGG_send').click(function(){//sending off the book (from the Gesetzliche Grundlagen field)
      var biblio_link = $('#titel').val()+' '+$('#autor').val()+' '+$('#referenz').val()+' '+$('#comment').val();
      FCKeditor.InsertHtml(biblio_link);
      tb_remove();
   });

Well, everything works, but I just can't access the FCKeditor object ("FCKeditor is not a function"). I already tried with FCK and oFCKeditor and all kinds of parent, but it doesn't work. I'm not too much into Javascript, but when I open firebug and switch to the DOM View, I can see there a red variable called "FCKeditor" and when I click the plus "prototype" appears and plus again there are some more variables.

Well, I hope this defines the problem well. I really hope I can get some help.... please.