Where is the Insert Function for buttons?

Hello,

I am new to FCKEditor, but fairly comfortable with JS. I want to use FCKEditor with a content management system. Part of the CMS allows users to edit the CSS file for their site. So, when I implement FCKEditor, I want to remove the default "Styles" dropdown and have a dropdown that contains the Style names from the CSS file. I am fine with having the dropdown just on the page and not actually in the FCKE toolbar, however I need to know where the function is that inserts tags when the user clicks the Bold button. I am hoping I can just do an onChange on my new styles dropdown and pass the open and close tags I need FCKE to put around the selected text.

So, again, when user clicks B, FCKE takes the currently selected text, places a "<b>" in front and "</b>" behind.

So on my new styles menu I want to have them choose "Caption", I need to call whatever function FCKE uses so that it will place "<span class="Caption">" in front and "</span>" behind.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Fri, 02/15/2008 - 16:43

jrlooney

Joined: 14/01/2008

Posts: 19

Re: Where is the Insert Function for buttons?

no one know?

Sat, 02/16/2008 - 13:33

datalink

Joined: 18/10/2007

Posts: 149

Re: Where is the Insert Function for buttons?

The only way I know is to generate the fckstyles.xml file with PHP from your CSS file. Read your CSS with

file_get_contents( "path/to/stylesheet.css" );

and write your classes this way

<Style name=\"".$showname."\" element=\"span\">
<Attribute name=\"class\" value=\"".$classname."\" />
</Style>

as XML-file with

header("Content-Type: text/xml");

. Save the file as fckstyles.php and change the name in your config.

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 17:57

jrlooney

Joined: 14/01/2008

Posts: 19

Re: Where is the Insert Function for buttons?

sorry, i think i didn't explain myself clearly.

let's say on the form that contains my FCKEditor, I have a dropdown, that when someone selects something from it, I want the value to be inserted into the FCKE editor area. Since the FCKE editor area is not a true <textarea>, I can't do just a simple javascript to insert the value in there. So I am trying to find the function in FCKE for things like the Bold button. You know how if you click the Bold button in FCKE, it inserts bold tags into the FCKE editor area? I just want to know what function does that so that I can use it to insert my own stuff.

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 18:07

jrlooney

Joined: 14/01/2008

Posts: 19

Re: Where is the Insert Function for buttons?

ohh ohh ohh, you are pointing out where the values for the FCKE Styles dropdown are coming from. Sweet! That is actually PERFECT.

Thank you so much.

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 04:01

miramardesign

Joined: 26/02/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Where is the Insert Function for buttons?

I basically want to do something similar in that I want to call the 'unordered list' when the editor loads. Is there a way to do this by calling a function or a config??