Javascript + TinyMCE
Liam Dawe Dec 27, 2012
Does anyone have javascript and tinymce experience?
Cheeseness Dec 28, 2012
I've used TinyMCE in most of the content management backends I've written. What sort of stuff do you need to know?
Liam Dawe Dec 28, 2012
Well a game dev previously helped me to do this but i need an addition to what they gave me.

Basically limiting the character count on a specified textarea of tinymce on a page, the current code i have affects all tinymce textareas.

Here's the code:
[HTML]<script type="text/javascript" src="/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
tinyMCE.init({
mode : "textareas",
theme : "advanced",
plugins : "bbcode",
theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold,italic,underline,undo,redo,link,unlink,image,forecolor,styleselect,removeformat,cleanup,code",
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "",
theme_advanced_buttons3 : "",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "bottom",
theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "center",
theme_advanced_styles : "Code=codeStyle;Quote=quoteStyle",
theme_advanced_resizing : true,
theme_advanced_path : false,
content_css : "css/bbcode.css",
entity_encoding : "raw",
add_unload_trigger : false,
remove_linebreaks : false,
inline_styles : false,
forced_root_block : '',
convert_fonts_to_spans : false,
theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
setup: function(ed) {
ed.onKeyUp.add(function(ed, e) {
// What is the max amount of characters you want
var maxChars = 255;
var content = tinyMCE.activeEditor.getContent();
// Remove any BBCode tags from the count
var strip = content.replace(/[/?(?:b|i|u|url|quote|code|img|color|size)*?.*?]/img, '');
// Set the text for what we want to display in the status bar
var text = strip.split(' ').length + " Words, " + strip.length + " Characters"
// Show the status bar message
tinymce.DOM.setHTML(tinymce.DOM.get(tinyMCE.activeEditor.id + '_path_row'), text);
// Is there more Characters than we want
if (strip.length > maxChars)
{
// Show an alert (can comment out)
alert("Sorry too many characters " + strip);
// Get all characters up to the limit
cur = strip.substring(0,maxChars);
// Replace content with the max amount
tinyMCE.activeEditor.setContent(oldContent);
}

else
{
oldContent = content;

}

});

}
});[/HTML]
Liam Dawe Dec 28, 2012
Nvm someone on stackoverflow sorted it :D
Cheeseness Dec 29, 2012
Awesome awesome :)
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