populate textarea using dropdown list

beazleybub · #21 (**permalink**) 12-17-09, 02:35 PM

There is a bug when saving data to the data6.php file. I'm not sure if this is tinymce related.
For some reason when i add a text string to the file from within the editor and click the save icon it saves the content ok but when the page refreshes it cuts off some of the content from within the editor. If this makes any sense. If I refresh the page it comes back.

Thanks to the both of you for all your effort and time.
I certainly wish a pleasant holiday season to you and your family.

job0107 · #22 (**permalink**) 12-17-09, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beazleybub

There is a bug when saving data to the data6.php file. I'm not sure if this is tinymce related.
For some reason when i add a text string to the file from within the editor and click the save icon it saves the content ok but when the page refreshes it cuts off some of the content from within the editor. If this makes any sense. If I refresh the page it comes back.

Thanks to the both of you for all your effort and time.
I certainly wish a pleasant holiday season to you and your family.

I think it has something to do with the amount of time it takes to save the file.
So, I added another array element to the $dataFiles array at the end, called "end_of_array".
This "end_of_array" element must be at the end of the array.
It causes the program to perform additional condition statements, giving the file enough time to be saved.

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>editor</title>
<!-- TinyMCE -->
   <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript">
    tinyMCE.init({
        // General options
        mode : "textareas",
        theme : "advanced",
        plugins : "ibrowser,safari,pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template,wordcount",

        // Theme options
        theme_advanced_buttons1 : "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect",
        theme_advanced_buttons2 : "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,|,image,ibrowser,|,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor",
        theme_advanced_buttons3 : "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
        theme_advanced_buttons4 : "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,pagebreak,ibrowser",
        theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
        theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
        theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
        theme_advanced_resizing : true,

        // Example content CSS (should be your site CSS)
        content_css : "css/content.css",

        // Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs
        template_external_list_url : "lists/template_list.js",
        external_link_list_url : "lists/link_list.js",
        external_image_list_url : "lists/image_list.js",
        media_external_list_url : "lists/media_list.js",

        // Replace values for the template plugin
        template_replace_values : {
            username : "Some User",
            staffid : "991234"
        }
    });
</script>
<!-- /TinyMCE -->
</head>
<body>
<?php
$dataFiles=array("instructions.php","data1.php","data2.php","data3.php","data4.php","data5.php","data6.php","end_of_array");
for($i=0;$i<count($dataFiles)-1;$i++)
{
 if(!file_exists($dataFiles[$i]))
 {
  $fp=fopen($dataFiles[$i],"w");
  fwrite($fp," ");
  fclose($fp);
  }
 else
 {
  if(filesize($dataFiles[$i])<=0)
  {
   $fp=fopen($dataFiles[$i],"a");
   fwrite($fp," ");
   fclose($fp);
   }
  }
 }
$file=empty($_POST["source"])?" ":$_POST["source"];
if(!empty($_POST["current_file"]))
{
 $data=empty($_POST['data'])?" ":$_POST['data'];
 $file=$_POST["current_file"];
 $fh=fopen($file,"w");
 fwrite($fh,$data);
 fclose($fh);
 }
if(file_exists($file))
{
 $fh=fopen($file,'r');
 $data=stripslashes(fread($fh,filesize($file)));
 fclose($fh);
 }
?>
<form action="#" method="post">
 <textarea name="data" cols="100" rows="10"><?php echo $data; ?></textarea>
 <input type="hidden" name="current_file" value="<?php echo $file; ?>">
</form>
<form name="view_form" action="#" method="POST">
 <select name="source" onchange="view_form.submit();">
  <option value="">Select a source file to view...</option>
  <?php
  for($i=0;$i<count($dataFiles);$i++)
  {
   $selected="";
   if($dataFiles[$i]!="end_of_array")
   {
    if($file==$dataFiles[$i]){$selected="selected";}
    echo "<option value='$dataFiles[$i]' $selected>$dataFiles[$i]</option>";
    }
   }
  ?>
 </select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

And a happy holiday to you and yours.
Wishing you the very best.

beazleybub · #23 (**permalink**) 01-18-10, 12:19 PM

Hi job0107,

I added an image upload ability to the editor but I'm getting some sort of problem.
When saving the file the image links end up looking like this in the output file.

<IMG src=\"http://127.0.0.1/UserFiles/Image/!cid_pic041907_2.jpg\" width=179 height=94 mce_src=\"../UserFiles/Image/!cid_pic041907_2.jpg\">

At first I thought it had something to do with the tinyfck image manager i am using to upload images but i also tried another image manager called ibrowser and I get the same kinds of links.

Do you think you might be able to help me on this please.

Thank you, Robert

beazleybub · #24 (**permalink**) 01-18-10, 12:58 PM

Strange,

When I upload it to the server everything works just fine.
But when I test it using xampp on my local machine it goofs.

The weird thing is that it was working on localhost before then it just started malfunctioning.

Do you think my php settings have been corrupted?

wirehopper · #25 (**permalink**) 01-18-10, 01:15 PM

Probably not corrupted, just different.

Might also be a path issue, or a PHP version issue.

beazleybub · #26 (**permalink**) 01-18-10, 01:17 PM

Reinstalling xampp fixed the issue. I have no idea what caused it but it's fine now.

beazleybub · #27 (**permalink**) 01-20-10, 03:07 AM

How would I go about getting the instructions.php to load into the textarea on page load?

Thanks

beazleybub · #28 (**permalink**) 02-05-10, 06:28 PM

Please don't give up on me. I learn by example.

job0107 · #29 (**permalink**) 02-10-10, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beazleybub

How would I go about getting the instructions.php to load into the textarea on page load?

Thanks

You see this line here:

PHP Code:


			
$file=empty($_POST["source"])?" ":$_POST["source"];

This part would be the default file:

PHP Code:


			
?" "

So to get instructions.php to be the default file on initial page load, you do it like this:

PHP Code:


			
$file=empty($_POST["source"])?"instructions.php":$_POST["source"];

beazleybub · #30 (**permalink**) 02-10-10, 10:53 AM

Special thanks to all of you who took the time to help me out. I have been juggling so much I haven't had time to study like I'd like to. Just to let you guys know, soon I will be taking a full fledged PHP course and learn the way I should so I can do things on my own

Thanks again.