TinyMCE

[bookman +]

I can't seem to get the html editor going on both the user and admin sides. I think I had it going at one time (only installed the app a few days ago) but I am not sure. When I look at the browser source code in http://www.mysite.com/usermodifylisting.php?view=2 there is no js call to load tinyMCE. I also loaded the most recent version of tinyMCE, but no change. My settings have Enable HTM Editor = yes.

I am lost. All help appreciated.

bob
verion 4.0.9 Designer

[seymourjames +]

Your TinyMCE should be working in your admin control panel for use with page editor but I have never had it available as part of a users checkout process for putting in adverts or modifying listings.

In the admin control panel under checkout settings you can define html tags for example that users can apply in their listings. Things like bolding text, putting in links (tricky and dangerous), changing font faces, colors, size, underlining etc. also look at the post http://www.68classifieds.com/forums/...ge-editor.html

[bookman +]

the template is ok, I hadn't changed it. The problem is that there is no call to get the js file. I am pretty sure that I had it working at one point in time but now it is not. I did a Clear Compiled Templates and I think that is when it stopped working. Do I need to do some sort of regen? If so, how do I do that?

many tia
bob

[Eric Barnes +]

The tinymce editor is only designed to work with the administration.

[bookman +]

OK, thx. Guess I will have to get going and implement for my users.
bob

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by bookman

OK, thx. Guess I will have to get going and implement for my users.
bob

Keep in mind that tight controls on HTML usage for users serves a purpose. There is currently a lot of code to clean the entered input to protect your site from malicious activity. Implementing tinyMCE for the user could bring with it some serious security risks if your not extremely carefull.

[bookman +]

Hi Larry

You are of course right. However my plan was to expand the html filtering to ul, li, i elements and remove all others form tinyMCE. That way the user can use the wysiwyg facility but we should still be just as save. In particular I would diable the img and a tags so the user really has very little choice, only easier to use.

As I understand it (I haven't actually tried this yet) if I type in say a span tag in the default user configuration the backend will throw an exception and stop processing. I would expect that would happen if tinyMCE is implemented with the same set of parsing rules. Or did I miss something?

bob

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by bookman

As I understand it (I haven't actually tried this yet) if I type in say a span tag in the default user configuration the backend will throw an exception and stop processing. I would expect that would happen if tinyMCE is implemented with the same set of parsing rules. Or did I miss something?

bob

The backend 68C files are going to continue to strip html and other things deemed harmfull regardless of what you use on the front end to allow the user to fill in the ad form.

With that in mind you can, in 68C admin, add additional allowed tags and if that isnt sufficient you will have to modify the scripts that sanitize the input.

[bookman +]

Exactly, which is why I think I am pretty safe allowing users access to tinyMCE. Now all I need is time to implement it
bob

[bookman +]

OK, I have it running on both the user/usermodifylisting.tpl and checkout/step3.tpl templates. I have the widget configured to allow bold, italics, strickthrough, numbered and unnumbered lists, and justification. NO LINKS and NO IMAGES (in the text, images are limited to one per ad).

I have the Allowed HTML Tags set to <b><strong><p><ul><ol><li> on the Checkout Settings Tab. Is there somewhere else where that can be set for the normal user editor?

BUT, when I save a change, the ad is set to inactive always. I have the hidden field name="display" value="Y" but that does not seem to control that state of the ad. HELP! ! !

tia
bob