Joomla editor strips tags

Question

I'm trying to create a custom component in Joomla 2.5 and struggling to get it to stop it stripping all html tags out of the editor field - links, new lines, p tags - the full works. The form field is below:

<field
    name="post"
    type="editor"
    label="COM_HELLO_WORLD_EDITOR_LABEL"
    description="COM_HELLO_WORLD_EDITOR_DESC"
    class="inputbox"
    filter="JComponentHelper::filterText"
    required="true"
    default=""
/>

Clearly there are many many posts about this around both SO and Joomla forums. However they generally seem to have two clear themes.

Tiny MCE Settings. I've checked after setting my default editor to "None" (i.e. just a text area) and the tags are all still stripped
Joomla Text filter settings. I'm logged in as a Global Admin with the super users set to "no filtering"

I'm overriding the model's save function for this with:

function store()
{
    $row =& $this->getTable();
    $input = new JInput();
    $data = $input->getArray($_POST);

    //Sets Users id as current logged in user if not set
    if(!$data['jform']['post_user']) {
        $data['jform']['post_user']=JFactory::getUser()->id;
    }

    // Bind the form fields to the post table
    if (!$row->bind($data['jform'])) {
        $this->setError($this->_db->getErrorMsg());
        return false;
    }

    // Make sure the hello is valid
    if (!$row->check()) {
        $this->setError($this->_db->getErrorMsg());
        return false;
    }

    // Store the hello table to the database
    if (!$row->store()) {
        $this->setError($this->_db->getErrorMsg());
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

My gut instinct is that it's to do with JInput stripping HTML tags. But even adding in the extra line into the save file $data['jform']['post']=$input->getHTML('post'); nothing happened. So I'm not really sure where to go from here. Any ideas?

UPDATE

Just to clarify an issue quickly - I want to use the preset Joomla 'Text Filter' Settings under 'Global Configuration' rather than manually setting each tag in the component!

UPDATE 2

I added filter="raw" to the editor form field. I now see the html <p> tags when I dump out the variable $_POST['jform']['post'], null, 'HTML'). However then when applying just a simple JInput Filter function - let alone applying the Joomla Config values - I'm getting null.

    $input = new JInput();
    $data = $input->getArray($_POST);
    $data['jform']['post']=$input->get($_POST['jform']['post'], null, 'HTML');

Is the sentence here "HTML - Returns a string with HTML entities and tags intact, subject to the white or black lists in the filter." describing the JInput HTML filter referring to the Global Config Text filter settings? Just to confirm?

Well I'd like to have the Joomla filtering system - as specified in the Text Filters area of Global Configuration. So for superadmins - no filtering. For some no html and for others selected HTML. But for me as a super admin no filtering yes. — George Wilson

wearwoolf wearwoolf · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-02T15:30:13

Try something like this

$input_options = JFilterInput::getInstance(
        array(
            'img','p','a','u','i','b','strong','span','div','ul','li','ol','h1','h2','h3','h4','h5',
            'table','tr','td','th','tbody','theader','tfooter','br'
        ),
        array(
            'src','width','height','alt','style','href','rel','target','align','valign','border','cellpading',
            'cellspacing','title','id','class'
        )
    );

    $postData = new JInput($_POST,array('filter' => $input_options));

First array it is allowed tags, second array it is allowed attributes.

Joomla editor strips tags

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