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EditArea usage in the admin section
This is a continuation from this thread topic posted by Nathan82.
I’ve been banging the heck out of EditArea in my local install, using the latest SVN code (r2243), and it works fine, great for working on new templates and tweaking plugin code.
Basic instructions:
- Download the lastest version of EditArea
- Unzip it to your local machine, rename the folder to editarea
- Upload the editarea folder as a subdirectory under /textpattern on your web server
Edit /textpattern/lib/txplib_head.php, insert the following lines before the </head> line:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="editarea/edit_area/edit_area_compressor.php?plugins"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
editAreaLoader.init({
id : "html"
,syntax: "html"
,start_highlight: "true"
,allow_toggle: "true"
,display: "later"
,font_family: 'Consolas, Monaco, "Courier New", monospace'
});
editAreaLoader.init({
id : "form"
,syntax: "html"
,start_highlight: "true"
,allow_toggle: "true"
,display: "later"
,font_family: 'Consolas, Monaco, "Courier New", monospace'
});
editAreaLoader.init({
id : "css"
,syntax: "css"
,start_highlight: "true"
,allow_toggle: "true"
,display: "later"
,font_family: 'Consolas, Monaco, "Courier New", monospace'
});
editAreaLoader.init({
id : "plugin-code"
,syntax: "php"
,start_highlight: "true"
,allow_toggle: "true"
,display: "later"
,font_family: 'Consolas, Monaco, "Courier New", monospace'
});
</script>What you’ll have is a toggle under Pages, Forms, Style and Plugin edit areas. This gives you the same speed the normal backend gives you but with a one click access to syntax highlighting, true tab support and full browser screen editing.
Enjoy and let me know how it works for you.
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Re: EditArea usage in the admin section
Is EditArea finally working well enough that it’s usable? Wouldn’t be too hard to package this up as a plugin.
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hakjoon wrote:
Wouldn’t be too hard to package this up as a plugin.
That would indeed be awesome, I just don’t have the TxP plugin experience to do it.
As for it being stable, it’s yet to crash my Firefox browser and it’s very fast. One of the reasons I made this post was I was hoping for others to try it and give me their impressions.
As for a plugin, there’s many ways load the script and with different options. There’s also some things that can be left out, like docs, examples, etc. I just haven’t delved into slimming it down but it can be done for a smaller download.
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Awesome! pretty code colors… Always wanted something like this to pop up…
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Quick and Dirty. Have to edit the plugin code if you want to change any thing. I can flesh it out if there is interest. Doesn’t work in the plugin tab because plugins can’t run there.
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hakjoon wrote:
Doesn’t work in the plugin tab because plugins can’t run there.
Wow, that’s a bummer, it’s most useful for tweaking plugin code. Is this written in stone somewhere that plugins can’t mess with this area?
Installed the plugin, works fine, TxPlugin 101 class :)
Last edited by hcgtv (2007-02-26 22:07:55)
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hcgtv wrote:
Is this written in stone somewhere that plugins can’t mess with this area?
It’s so you can always uninstall a bad plugin. Which if you think about is a pretty good idea :)
However we could always enable it for Yura’s plugin composer. Which will also let you edit the plugin and does not have the plugin tab limitation.
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>hak
That was quick. Sure makes editing a 950 line css file more fun… which makes me wonder, is that a Massive CSS file?
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hakjoon wrote:
However we could always enable it for Yura’s plugin composer.
Well it requires editing the plugin code to give the textarea an ID, but it works.
Last edited by hakjoon (2007-02-26 22:22:36)
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#10 2007-02-26 22:19:13
- els
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Great plugin, thanks Bert and Patrick!
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#11 2007-02-26 22:20:16
- zem
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Re: EditArea usage in the admin section
Doesn’t work in the plugin tab because plugins can’t run there.
Wow, that’s a bummer, it’s most useful for tweaking plugin code. Is this written in stone somewhere that plugins can’t mess with this area?
Yes. Plugins are deliberately disabled on the plugins tab. Otherwise there’d be no way to disable a plugin gone haywire.
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mrdale wrote:
Sure makes editing a 950 line css file more fun… which makes me wonder, is that a Massive CSS file?
Well the CSS for my site is at 510 lines and it’s pretty basic, so I’d say you are on the small side :)
Bert, Els, mrDale, anybody else:
Please post stuff you would like to be able to do/customize with this and I’ll work on a more polished version. The code right now is a little too quick and dirty for a real release.
Last edited by hakjoon (2007-02-26 22:28:24)
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