I am having some issues with re-editing content in the Rich text Editor. The previously saved HTML content is not being processed by the editor and the raw html is being displayed:
<p>content</p>
Background info:
I created a new "paid forum" entity with several fields that hold meta data for a very few selected forums. I extended the forum_edit template to add the extra new entity fields to keep a simple UI. The new entity is created / modified / deleted along with the forum it is associated with. One of the extra entity fields was a "description" field which I originally used a xf:textarearow to display and capture the data. I have working code to save the new entity and do additional processing as required: including a view of the new entity and a payment system.
All was working just fine. But the admin users quickly identified that they wanted to use a Rich Text Editor to author the description field content instead of having to enter HTML tags. Makes sense.
I discovered the xf:editorrow and initially changed the xf:textarearow to xf:editorrow in the extended forum_edit template . This caused the RTE to be displayed on the forum edit but caused some other side effects.
a) The actual form data is now stored in a field called "description_html" as opposed to "description" (i have solved this issue)
b) The captured data is being stored as html in the database - so it displays properly in a view of the new entity. But the html is not being pre-processed by the RTE when someone re-edits the forum. This causes the data to get corrupted when it is re-saved.
I have been unable to find any other posts here or good examples in the code base that would give me guidance on best practices.
Questions:
1) how to get the raw HTML to be processed properly by the RTE?
2) should I be doing something else other than using raw HTML? It appears that normal thread posts not stored as HTML, but some other type of code (BB code? whatever that is...)
I ask the second question since one of the users wants to embed a video link such as in the description field and this does not render properly when I display the entity via {$pforum.description|raw} . This leads me to think I need to learn more about BB code and maybe store / render the description data differently?
<p>content</p>
Background info:
I created a new "paid forum" entity with several fields that hold meta data for a very few selected forums. I extended the forum_edit template to add the extra new entity fields to keep a simple UI. The new entity is created / modified / deleted along with the forum it is associated with. One of the extra entity fields was a "description" field which I originally used a xf:textarearow to display and capture the data. I have working code to save the new entity and do additional processing as required: including a view of the new entity and a payment system.
All was working just fine. But the admin users quickly identified that they wanted to use a Rich Text Editor to author the description field content instead of having to enter HTML tags. Makes sense.
I discovered the xf:editorrow and initially changed the xf:textarearow to xf:editorrow in the extended forum_edit template . This caused the RTE to be displayed on the forum edit but caused some other side effects.
a) The actual form data is now stored in a field called "description_html" as opposed to "description" (i have solved this issue)
b) The captured data is being stored as html in the database - so it displays properly in a view of the new entity. But the html is not being pre-processed by the RTE when someone re-edits the forum. This causes the data to get corrupted when it is re-saved.
I have been unable to find any other posts here or good examples in the code base that would give me guidance on best practices.
Questions:
1) how to get the raw HTML to be processed properly by the RTE?
2) should I be doing something else other than using raw HTML? It appears that normal thread posts not stored as HTML, but some other type of code (BB code? whatever that is...)
I ask the second question since one of the users wants to embed a video link such as in the description field and this does not render properly when I display the entity via {$pforum.description|raw} . This leads me to think I need to learn more about BB code and maybe store / render the description data differently?
