PHPBB3-10418 - WYSIWYG Editor/Rich Text Editor

[jsebean]

Ticket: https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10418
PR: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/3630
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Since i dont think WYSIWYG will be included in 3.1 (if there is please correct me), what about WYSIWYG editor for phpBB 3.2.

[simy202]

So has CKEditor been integrated into Area 51?

What kind of (x)HTML tags does ckeditor allow? And which tags don't they allow to be used?

[jsebean]

Well if I understand your question correctly CKEditor is not integrated into area51.

I have read discussion related to having the team integrate CKEditor, but I didn't get much information out of it that's why I made this RFC.

[DavidIQ]

Well the CKEditor folks want to work with us it's just a matter of figuring out what the dev team wants to do with it.

[jsebean]

OK thanks. I saw the posts from CKEditor folks but didn't know really what was going on, that basically sums it up

[jsebean]

From discussions and comments I've seen, CK folks seemed to not have the people to develop this and think it should be responsibility of phpBB devs. Any updates on the progress of this?

ETA: http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.ph ... b&start=10

[wGEric]

I would suggest calling this a Rich Text Editor instead of a WYSIWYG. More than likely it won't be a true WYSIWYG.

Here is a BBCode parser I wrote using javascript. It uses the same tags that phpBB has for custom bbcodes ({TEXT}, {SIMPLETEXT}, etc). It can convert bbcode to html and html to bbcode. Something like this should allow custom bbcodes to be added and wouldn't change massive amounts of code if the built in bbcodes are switched to "custom" ones.

Here is an example ckeditor plugin that uses the above parser.

One question I have is about custom bbcodes or even the quote bbcode. The quote bbcode contains something like "x said:". You don't want people to be able to change "said:". You only want them to be able to change "x". Same could go for spoiler bbcodes that have something like "Spoiler:" in them.

If you set contenteditable="false" on elements then CKEditor won't allow those to be edited (seems like it may not work in some browsers but I can't find the documentation about this at the moment). So that would be the solution but do you attempt to add that attribute automatically or do you require people to add another HTML template that is used for the editor?

[DavidIQ]

From discussions and comments I've seen, CK folks seemed to not have the people to develop this and think it should be responsibility of phpBB devs. Any updates on the progress of this?

ETA: http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.ph ... b&start=10

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. This ticket says they've coded a BBCode parser and looks to have been merged to their main branch:
http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/7044

About a month ago there was also a MOD submitted for 3.0.9 (denied):
http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/ckeditor/

So it's apparently already possible with the current CKEditor release.

[callumacrae]

That mod was pretty, but it was literally just CKEditor stuck on top of phpBB - the quotes didn't look like phpBB quotes, and the font was different. That mod would be alright to be put into phpbb, but I think that it would be better if it used only hooks, and it would need some modification so that what you see in the editor is what is put into the end post.

EDIT: I think CKEditor is ugly, though

[MichaelC]

I think it should probably be better integrated with phpBB if its to be included in the core.