not understanding how to embed ckeditor

I have been looking at the samples and reading the help section and I don't get it.
Pulse CMS uses ckeditor to save blocks of html. Everything I read in the documentation here, talks about sending the data to the server, or posting it, but leaving off the rather important detail of where exactly.

Could someone explain how Pulse CMS uses ckeditor to edit saved files? That's all I want to do, is to do something similar to what Pulse is doing to edit a set of caption files in a web photo gallery. I do not understand the examples, not enough explanation.

Mon, 10/04/2010 - 11:42

zanpakutō

Joined: 08/02/2010

Posts: 122

Re: not understanding how to embed ckeditor

cktode wrote:I have been looking at the samples and reading the help section and I don't get it.
Pulse CMS uses ckeditor to save blocks of html.

Incorrect. Pulse CMS uses CKEditor to edit HTML which Pulse CMS then saves as flat files when a HTTP POST request is sent to submit the form.
Ask the Pulse CMS developers how their system works.

cktode wrote:Everything I read in the documentation here, talks about sending the data to the server, or posting it, but leaving off the rather important detail of where exactly.

You mean how? Do you mean, how do you do a HTTP POST request using a HTML form and then save the POST data using PHP?
If you really do mean "Where?" The contents of a CKEditor instance are posted to the HTTP web server when the form is submitted using a HTTP POST request. A basic fundamental of web development, taught to web developers when they study web design.

cktode wrote:Could someone explain how Pulse CMS uses ckeditor to edit saved files? That's all I want to do, is to do something similar to what Pulse is doing to edit a set of caption files in a web photo gallery. I do not understand the examples, not enough explanation.

CKEditor is set to replace the tag which contains the text to be edited, once the document has loaded.

It's highly unlikely that anyone who understands how it works even uses that CMS. It's fundamentally flawed flat file save system is a massive security nightmare (All flat file save systems are fundamentally flawed security wise and do not scale,) none of it's work flows make any sense and it is difficult to understand the difference between what a web page is that it generates and what is a Pulse CMS object or plugin is, in it's administration area.

There are plenty of resources all over the web which can teach you basic HTML and PHP. If you are not prepared to learn the basics, pay a web developer to do the work for you. That's what they are there for.

Thanks,
Zanpakutō

Mon, 10/04/2010 - 15:22

cktode

Joined: 02/10/2010

Posts: 2

Re: not understanding how to embed ckeditor

Thank you very much for the comments and advice, that helped. I have opted instead to use simple textarea editing in a php form, which will be good enough for the purpose. I did ask some questions in the pulse forum, and had not gotten a reply. I have reviewed the source outputs but didn't see how the file was handled in particular to a file that did not yet exist. I set up my own handler using a file existence check, creating a new file and writing a default entry if the file didn't exist, before opening it for editing.

Mon, 10/11/2010 - 08:04

dania123

Joined: 09/10/2010

Posts: 3

Re: not understanding how to embed ckeditor

Thank you very much for the comments and advice, that helped. I have opted instead to use simple textarea editing in a php form, which will be good enough for the purpose.