Retaining new lines of source

Is there a way to prevent FCKeditor from tidying the edited source? I'm using a templating system and after using FCKeditor on the templates, the HTML parts look great but because it erases new lines things get complicated. Look here:

Source:
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{* Smarty *}

{add_button title="South Africa" link="southafrica.php"}
{add_button title="Toronto" link="toronto.php"}

After edit:
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{* Smarty *} {add_button title="South Africa" link="southafrica.php"} {add_button title="Toronto" link="toronto.php"}

i.e. all the newlines are removed. Obviously when working with big files this makes things very hard to understand. What can I do?

My first guess would be to add support for all the tags but that's quite a mission, isn't it? or is it easy?

Mon, 12/05/2005 - 08:14

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Retaining new lines of source

I would say that it's IE the one that removes the newlines, so at first sight it won't be easy to keep the format.

Mon, 12/05/2005 - 10:26

gadicohen

Joined: 07/12/2005

Posts: 5

RE: Retaining new lines of source

Yes, clearly part of the problem is the way its rendered by the browser. So I thought about encasing the {} tags before sending to FCKeditor and removing afterwards before saving. Seems to work.

Before given to editor:
$contents = preg_replace("/^({.*})\n$/smU", "<pre class=\"tpl\">\\1</pre>\n", $contents);

Before save:
$contents = preg_replace("/^<pre class=\"tpl\">({.*})<\/pre>/mU", "\\1\n", $contents);

This is nice because it also lets me put the tags in a different color. Only real problem I can see is that FCKeditor seems to be converting newlines to <br /> even when they are within <pre> tags. Anyone have ideas to get around that?