Could you not just use <? my php here ?>
Id say the file your saving to will also have to be .php extension!

How about using setupcontent_callback and save_callback? You could do a exchange there and replace the php-tags with your "special" tags. I used these features for relative URLs, because using the editor was allowed on the user- and the admin-side and therefore I had some problems with the paths.

Hello all first time on the forum,

As a newb to this forum and to TinyMCE please pardon in advance any ignorance I may have of the way things work around here.

First of all I would like to say wow, just wow.  TinyMCE is an awsome system.  Many thanks to those who wrote it or have contributed.

Next I have a few questions:
1) Does anybody read this forum?
2) (this one is more to the pont of this thread) Is anyone interested in a plugin which I have developed for keeping PHP, in all of it's wonderful forms, fully intact while providing a visual placeholder and a popup editor with some built in features?

Three days ago I started searching this forum for the very same information people in this thread have been looking for.  Not to detract from the work and contributions that the members here have provided on this subject but, the codeprotect plugin (both the one on sourceforge and the "patch" posted on this forum are, at best, patches for the problem.

So I wrote a fully visual PHP plugin based on the other plugins that are distributed with TinyMCE.  What a task, let me tell you!  Currently it handles both styles of php tags and most styles that php can be written in, except for the very specific problem that hstraf has posted here.  I am re-writting the text parser at this time and I decided to stop by here and deliver the news so that I might get some feedback on what else it should be capable of.  A few examples of the types of php strings that other programmers attempt to insert in to html docs would be helpful indeed.  As I am a fairly old-school C programmer, the syntax style I use is a very strict one and it would have never occured to me to handle a case such as the one here "<a href="images/<?php echo($year.'/images/'.$month.'-1.gif'); ?>">link</a>".  However, in that respect I do not wish to deliver anything less than a plugin which does what people need it to do.  It also has a few other nifty features like being able to have a drop down list of pre-programmed code "snipets" shall we call them?  Any way these snipets can be inserted from the popup with just a click of a button and the list is fully customizable.

So if you guys actually keep up on reading the posts on this forum and I get some responses, I would say that I would be able to provide a beta version for testing within the next two days.  So this is my test of the forum and my way of introducing myself to the community.  Hopefully someone reads this.

gforce

Last edited by gforce301 (2006-05-29 10:21:55)

To say the least, I hope gforce301 will post the php visual pluggin!!

Ok here is some code to see if your pluggin would preserve correctly.

<?php //search_files(): 
function search_files($server_name, $doc_root, $search_dir, $file_types, $file_skip, $file_hits, $file_terms, $file_words, $file_bytes, $_GET) 
{
 global $count_hits;
 @$keywords_url=$_GET['keywords_url'];
 @$action=$_GET['action'];
 if($action == "search") 
 { 
  foreach($search_dir as $dir) 
  { 
   $handle = @opendir($doc_root.$dir);
   while($file = @readdir($handle)) 
   {
    if(in_array($file, $file_skip)) {continue;}
    elseif($count_hits>=$file_hits) {break;} 
    elseif(is_dir($doc_root.$dir."/".$file)) 
    { 
     $search_dir = array("$dir/$file");
     search_files($server_name, $doc_root, $search_dir, $file_types, $file_skip, $file_hits, $file_terms, $file_words, $file_bytes, $HTTP_GET_VARS); 
    }
    elseif(preg_match("/($file_types)$/i", $file)) 
    { 
     $fd=fopen($doc_root.$dir."/".$file,"r");
     $text=fread($fd, $file_bytes); 
     $keywords_html = htmlentities($keywords_url);
     $do=stristr($text, $keywords_url)||stristr($text, $keywords_html);
     if($do)
     {
      $count_hits++; 
      if(preg_match_all("=<title[^>]*>(.*)</title>=siU", $text, $title)) 
      { 
       if(!$title[1][0]) 
       $link_title="Search Result"; 
       else
       $link_title=$title[1][0];  
      }
      else {$link_title="Search Result";}
      $dir = str_replace("/","","$dir");
      echo "<a href=\"$server_name?page=".$link_title."&page_url="."$dir/$file\" target=\"_self\" class=\"search_url\">$count_hits. $link_title</a><br>"; 
      $dir = "/"."$dir";
      $extract = strip_tags($text);
      $keywords_url = preg_quote($keywords_url); 
      $keywords_url = str_replace("/","\/","$keywords_url");
      $keywords_html = preg_quote($keywords_html); 
      $keywords_html = str_replace("/","\/","$keywords_html");
      echo "<span>";
      if(preg_match_all("/((\s\S*){0,$file_words})($keywords_url|$keywords_html)((\s?\S*){0,$file_words})/i", $extract, $match, PREG_SET_ORDER)); 
      {
       $number=$file_terms; 
       for ($h=0;$h<$number;$h++) 
       { 
        if (!empty($match[$h][3]))
        printf("<div class=\"search_desc\"><b>..</b> %s<b>%s</b>%s <b>..</b></div>", $match[$h][1], $match[$h][3], $match[$h][4]);
       }
      }
      echo "</span><br><br>";
      flush();
     }
     fclose($fd);
    }
   }
   @closedir($handle);
  }
 }
} ?>

Thanks for working on it gforce301!!

Last edited by acm (2006-05-29 23:29:44)

Thank you very much acm for submitting an example.  It was exactly what I needed.  I have good news and bad news. 

First the good news.  The parser works and maintains the code to and from the popup exactly, including the visual format (spacing and indents etc.... yes acm that means the code you posted here )

Now the bad news.  As has been the case when viewing the page from the html button included with TinyMCE, the code views fine.  Two problems though.  First (a minor one):  the html view does not preserve the indent format of the code.  Something in the TinyMCE base cleanup routines likes to squash that, however, the newlines are preserved (we can probably live with this for a while).  Second (the major one):  if you use the update button from html view, it's all over but the crying.  I have been re-writting the parser for the return from the html view.  I do not consider just not using the html view as an acceptable solution. (as it turns out this is the same part of code that handles the submit of the form, which makes this a very major problem)

I should have the parser fixed tonight which would make the plugin beta.  hstraf, I appreciate your suggestion and I understand your desire to help "test" (break? lol ) it, but remember I did say 2 days.  Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer not a Deity (just a little Star Trek humor there).

I am waiting on an email response from spocke regarding copyright restrictions.  Once the developers of TinyMCE give me a response to that, I can put the beta live.  Oh and before you ask, yes it will be licensed under the exact same license as TinyMCE itself.

Last edited by gforce301 (2006-05-30 00:55:33)

Nice!!

Mad props for the coding!!

I think Sourceforge is where most open source projects are posted. I haven't used it yet, just seen many who have.

ACM

Last edited by acm (2006-05-31 03:51:53)

I assume this version will have duct tabe holding it together:)

Just a small notice..

Normally, "<?" should be avoid because it can be mis-parsed with "<?xml", so...

By the way... they are some really interesting nativ php functions to "beautify" code:
- mixed highlight_file ( string filename [, bool return] )
- mixed highlight_string ( string str [, bool return] )

it could be intersting to use them to made a "show source" thing..

Last edited by zeropaper (2006-06-01 09:42:12)