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Integrating FCKEditor to save current content with AJAX using PHP

Posted on 27th March 2009 by Jacob

This is a short post which basically looks at an issue I had whilst developing my own content management system in PHP. The system uses FCKEditor as a basis in which for users to edit content with. The problem stemmed from me wanting an auto save feature that saved what was currently within the FCKEditor window. As I wanted the auto save to work on a timed basis as well it working without reloading the page i used AJAX ito help with this. The key line for getting the current content from the FCKEditor into a variable that could then be stored within a database was:-

var VariableName = escape(FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('FCKEditorFieldName').GetXHTML());

Basically you just need to change the ‘FCKEditorFieldName’ to what you have FCKEditor already set to yet this then pulled the data so that i execute it later within the AJAX script.

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  • Miles on 17th April 2009 wrote:

    HI,

    Do you have an example of this project. Would love to reproduce this. Sample code? When I viewed your other blog posts you had much more provided on the subject.

    Thanks!


  • Jacob on 17th April 2009 wrote:

    @miles – Yeah give us a day or two and we will get some example code done and uploaded.


  • cfaria on 1st June 2009 wrote:

    where is the example code

    i have 3 files

    newsletter
    newslettervar.php
    newsletter.js

    if i do not use fkeditor the file make the save fun but when i put :
    BasePath = $fckeditor_path;
    $oFCKeditor->ToolbarSet= ‘web2009′;$oFCKeditor->Value = $descreve;
    $oFCKeditor->Height = ’400′;
    $oFCKeditor->Width = ’600′;
    $oFCKeditor->Create();
    ?>
    the save don´t work