Comments on: WYBISYG – What You Bake Is What You Get – CakePHP + FCKEditor

By: John M

John M — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:46:01 +0000

I have inserted Ckeditor 3.x in my page and i submit my form data (along with the text area)to the controller. I am trying to save data to Mysql database but not able to save. I wonder if this is a correct way of doing it.

Form name = Admin
Field name = content
Controller name = Admins
Modelname = Admin

mycontroller code:
$grn3 = $this->data['Admin']['content'] ;
$this->Session->setFlash($grn3);
$this->Admin->set($this->data ); //setting data to model
$this->Admin->saveField(‘content’, $grn3); //saving single field

Setflash method flashes the data content, but save is not working. I am not sure if this is the way of saving text editor data to database. Please show me how to save editor data to datatbase.

Thankx
John M.

By: Joshan John

Joshan John — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:17:28 +0000

For your info.
Now the FCKEditor is changed to CKEditor with the relase of CKEditor 3.0.
Integrating latest version of FCKEditor(CKEditor) with cake php is very easy. You
can see the simple steps here.
Integrating CKEditor with CakePHP

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:57:00 +0000

it’s OK I got it; you need to add this in the view (not the layout!) before the renderElement is called:

echo $javascript->link(‘fckeditor/fckeditor’,false);

which utilises the scripts for layout, and is placed into the head of the HTML this way. Thanks!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:42:20 +0000

interesting, but I cannot get it to work with Cake beta from January: I am using the same download of FCKeditor you are using too (october 2007).

I get a couple of errors – FCKEditor si nto defined, and if I add a Script tag linking to the fckeditor directory it gives me an error from Cake as if it thinks there is a missing Js Controller.

I am not sure if I also need to add a call to the FCKEditor script source — I realise you have a basepath in your function to handle this, but it is not working for me.

any ideas?

should I remove certain files from the fckeditor directory ? Like the .html ones etc?