Online editors

Friday 12 March 2004 1:38:13 pm

I'm on the cc list for the mozilla bug, and the last i heard the fix doesn't apply to midas, which is key for our online editor plans. I've asked for clarification on the mozilla bug list.

Bitflux has a had a few releases since i last looked.

Sorry for the lack of progress on this, its something i should try to get back into soon. I'll try to schedule some time next week.

Eirik, jeroen, will either of you be at the eZ conference this summer?

Paul

Monday 15 March 2004 6:26:50 am

> Eirik, jeroen, will either of you be at the eZ conference this summer?

i'm not sure yet, but probably not.

jeroen.

Friday 26 March 2004 7:44:43 am

This oe sounds interesting. Works in most browsers, and is also integrates with other cms systems. Has anyne experience with it?

http://kupu.oscom.org/

Monday 12 April 2004 10:51:51 am

So, am I to assume that it's possible to mostly integrate dynarch's rte into eZ? We're using the OE for a client site right now, but my client took one look at it (I mean literally) and started ranting about how it wasn't production ready and lacked all the features that he's seen in competing products -- it was not a pleasant experience.

The OE, despite being quite cool from an engineering standpoint, really does lack from an out of the box perspective, and at 150 bucks, it's excessively expensive for what it gives you. We're not too stoked.

Is there a viable alternative, even if (for the moment) it's windows only???

Jonathan

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Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:31:48 am

Hi Paul,

Ironically, this sounds like a great idea. (I would hate it if the solution is that simple, though... :))

It might be a good idea then to copy the text field datatype, name it something like WYSIWYG text field. I'm guessing that the "view" view of the datatype also would have to be edited (simply removing the wash operator) to ensure that the HTML is formatted properly and not displayed as HTML code.

Sincerely,

Eirik Johansen

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:19:41 pm

This would be tremdously helpful! I will try it out on a new internal site I am developing see how useful it could be on development sites.

Alex

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Thursday 15 April 2004 12:16:40 am

Hi guys,

<i>I don't think we need another datatype, the regular text field works fine.</i>

The reason why I suggested creating a new datatype was to preserve the default behaviour of the textfield datatype. However, if one doesn't need the default text field behaviour, this is of course not neccessary.

<i>You are right, the template view may need to be overrident to remove the wash operator, or perhaps another html friendly wash operator could be used to strip unwanted code.</i>

It would be ideal if one could pass html to the wash parameter instead og xhtml, but currently, that's not the case.

<i>Give it a shot and see what you think.</i>

I just set up a demo site and tried out out and it worked like a charm (with IE, of course)!

<i>It seems pretty straightforward all in all, but it is important to note that this system is not XHTML Strict compliant, which may not matter to everyone.</i>

In my experience, it doesn't, at least not yet, and at least not to most people. I will definetly be using this in future projects (provided that the clients understands what they're giving up, of course).

Sincerely,

Eirik Johansen

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Thursday 15 April 2004 12:56:54 am

Im going to add the editor from: http://www.zhuo.org/htmlarea/ to pubsvn today, with extension setup and install instructions. I dont think the popup image editor will function properly, but hopefully it will pop up :)

paul

Thursday 15 April 2004 3:27:57 am

Ok, i've added a basic extension on pubsvn. Its here:

http://pubsvn.ez.no/viewcvs/community/trunk/extension/ezhtmleditor/

The html editor works as expected. I've included design views for the textarea to remove the wash operator by default.

I've hacked something together to get the Image Manager to pop up. But it doesn't work. The main problem is synching the directory
structures the javascript likes to use with the module-based structure of eZ. I've only made the initial strart to this. But it
looks promising.

Let me know if it works for you, and how you get on.

Paul

Here is the documentation I've written for it.

eZ HTML Editor
---------------------

This is an attempt at providing a simple inline server-side html editor for eZ publish. 
It is largely based upon htmlarea (http://dynarch.com/mishoo/htmlarea.epl), using the image manager 
from http://www.zhuo.org/htmlarea/ to extend it.

Please read the forum thread about online editors for further info:

http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/online_editors

NOTES:

-THIS ONLY WORKS ON TEXTFIELD ATTRIBUTES. It does *not* work with xmltextfields.

- Currently only simple html works. 

- Instructions are included to show the Image Manager but it is fiddly and doesn't work, though
it does pop up. Fitting the pop up scheme into the eZ module structure will take more time than
i've given it this morning ;)

To install
-------------
1. Add the ezhtmleditor as a normal extension, adding it to your site.ini file.

2. Within the pagelayout for your admin design, usually located at: design/admin/templates/pagelayout.tpl 
from your ez root directory add this code to the file:

Within <head> enter

<script type="text/javascript">
   _editor_url = "/extension/ezhtmleditor/htmlarea/";
   _editor_ezurl = 'http://{ezini("SiteSettings","SiteURL")}/';
   _editor_lang = "en";
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/extension/ezhtmleditor/htmlarea/htmlarea.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    //load the ImageManage + Editor plug-in
    HTMLArea.loadPlugin("ImageManager");

    var editor = new HTMLArea("editor");

   //the rest of your HTMLArea initialisation.
</script>

And add this onload command to the body tag:

<body onLoad="javascript:HTMLArea.replaceAll();">

3. 

a) To get the basics of the ImageManager working you need to add the correct SiteURL for your admin
interface. Within the siteaccess site.ini for the admin design enter the correct SiteURL for your site, eg:

[SiteSettings]
DefaultPage=/content/view/full/2
LoginPage=custom

SiteName=My Admin
SiteURL=127.0.0.1

Or use a proper host name. For Window pop ups the Image Manager needs an absolute url to use, otherwise 
eZ displays the wrong display. WIth this url the javascript function appends a path to the correct module.

b) For the pop up to work you need to symbolic link the ez module to the module file within the htmlarea image manager 
plugin. For example, on linux:

cd ezhtmleditor/modules
ln -s ../htmlarea/plugins/ImageManager .

For Windows i guess the quickest thing is to copy the whole ImageManager directory to the modules directory.

Friday 16 April 2004 8:27:09 am

That's great Paul! Thanks for working on it.

I uninstalled HTMLArea from my internal site and installed the extension version from pubsvn, and it works. So I am excited to see it move forward. Let me know if I can help. I may not be of much use on the API side of things, but perhaps I can help with XHTML compliance etc.

Alex

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