Cannot embed a textarea in a form in ckeditor

[Chris Baker]

If I build a form using the toolbar in ckeditor and include a textarea in it then when you save and return to edit it sees the </textarea> as the tag used to define the initial CKEditor instance. Any content appearing after the textarea appears below the editor window.

[Chris Baker]

This shows how my content is displayed when I edit it. THe submit buttons appear outside the editor!

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

The HTML of your page is invalid as you aren't escaping the contents of the ckeditor textarea. You should use the PHP server integration to take care of it.

[Chris Baker]

Where is this PHP Server Integration?

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

Please, use our ​forums for general support.

You can find the integration and the samples in the contents of the zip that you downloaded.

[classaxe]

This can be tricky. Here's what I do:

// Javascript code:
function my_window_onload(){
  ckeditor_abc = CKEDITOR.replace( "content", { toolbar: 'Page' } );
  ckeditor_abc.on(
    'instanceReady',
    function(evt) {
      this.setData(this.getData().replace(/safetextarea/g,'textarea'));
    }
  );
}

//php code
function draw_ckeditor($value){
  $safe = str_replace('textarea','safetextarea',$value);
  return
    "<textarea id='abc' name='abc'>"
   .$safe
   ."</textarea>";
}

Hope that helps somebody!

Blessings,

Martin Francis
​http://www.ecclesiact.com
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[Ursula]

Thank you for that approach. I searched that "error" for hours now. @alfonsoml: could you please point on the integration and the samples in the contents of the zip? @classaxe: Where do I have to insert the php code, please?

[Jakub Ś]

@Tobicic Have you tried - ckeditor\_samples\php?
Just look through what you have downloaded.

There is also CKEditor for Joomla and Drupal if you are interested - ​http://ckeditor.com/download, ​http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor

[Ursula]

Replying to j.swiderski:

@Tobicic Have you tried - ckeditor\_samples\php?
Just look through what you have downloaded.

There is also CKEditor for Joomla and Drupal if you are interested - ​http://ckeditor.com/download, ​http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor

Thank you for your quick reply. I read the _sample up and down. But I do not know what you mean and what I have to search for. Is it a problem to tell the filename and the linenumber and/or the syntax and where to integrate it? And if there is a solution, why isn't it already fixed in a new version of ckeditor because any Firefox-user has that problem if he/she wants to integrate a textarea inside ckfinder?

[Jakub Ś]

Just donload CKEditor - ​http://ckeditor.com/download - and look through the downloaded zip.

If I remember correctly files for PHP end up with php extension.

Just look at ckeditor\_samples\php samples and see how CKEditor is implemented there.

[Ursula]

Replying to j.swiderski:

Just donload CKEditor - ​http://ckeditor.com/download - and look through the downloaded zip.

If I remember correctly files for PHP end up with php extension.

Just look at ckeditor\_samples\php samples and see how CKEditor is implemented there.

Did you read the opening post "Cannot embed a textarea in a form in ckeditor"? The problem is not how to implement ckeditor (using a textarea, div or p), the problem is to include a textarea-formfield INSIDE the Editor because the inner /textarea closes the editor because it is not possible to nest a textarea inside a textarea like using DIVs.

[Chris Baker]

Thank you Tobicic.

Tobicic is correct. THis is not about how to implement ckeditor.

the problem is when I place a text area on the page using the editor. Save that content and then try to reopen it.

[Ursula]

I found the solution: ​http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17605

[Jakub Ś]

Have you read the:

The HTML of your page is invalid as you aren't escaping the contents of the ckeditor textarea.

and actually tried to escape the contents?

[Jakub Ś]

I found the solution: ​http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17605

Yes it was all about escaping.