Saving in FCKEditor

Greetings,

I was wondering what happens behind the scenes when you "save" something. Does it behave like the text editor style "save" we're all used to, where you can save a work, and then bring it up later? If so, how come there's no "open" function/button?

How is the saved work saved? What file kind of Object does it save as? Where does it go?

Much thanks.

Thu, 10/18/2007 - 16:09

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: Saving in FCKEditor

FCKeditor behaves like any other form element, so you write your server script to read the submitted data and when you want to edit it, you read back from a file or DB and prepopulate the form.

Fri, 10/19/2007 - 14:31

mantra105

Joined: 16/10/2007

Posts: 8

Re: Saving in FCKEditor

alfonsoml wrote:FCKeditor behaves like any other form element, so you write your server script to read the submitted data and when you want to edit it, you read back from a file or DB and prepopulate the form.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply but I am still a little confused about how the FCKeditor request works. When you click the "save" button, does that typically fire off a post or get request that you would have a backend servlet to intercept the data? I'm new to all of this and I am trying to figure the pieces to the FCKeditor. Basically i'm trying to figure how to retrieve the content data of the form element to save to in a database. I'm implementing this using JSF.
The big question is, can I tie the content of the editor to a backing bean value?

Thank you in advance

Fri, 10/19/2007 - 15:47

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: Saving in FCKEditor

when you press save, the form where the editor is placed it will be submited just like if you have pressed the "submit" button (if your form had one). Put an instance of FCKeditor in a page and test it yourself.