CKEditor displaying HTML tags in editor

2
votes

I am using a CKEditor and saving content to a MySQL database. When trying to edit the content again in the editor, I am getting HTML tags displayed as text, for example:

my test<br />and second line

How can I have it display in the editor correctly again?

I have been fiddling with htmlentities and html_entity_decode and CKEditor related settings for over an hour now, with no avail.

   $config = array();
   $config['enterMode'] = 2;
   $config['shiftEnterMode'] = 1;
   //$config['basicEntities'] = FALSE;
   //$config['entities'] = FALSE;
   //$config['entities_greek'] = FALSE;
   //$config['entities_latin'] = FALSE;
   //$config['htmlDecodeOutput'] = TRUE;

   $ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", $default_value, $config);
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phpckeditor
try to switch on 'html edit mode' and check what CKE having on input. that should show you direction to dig - Denis O.
what does set_value function doing? - Denis O.
Duh!! Good question! That is from the CodeIgniter framework, I just removed it and it work fine. The thought didn't even occur before so I even left it out from the above code!! Now I need to figure out how to fix this CodeIgniter issue. Thanks a lot man, when you spend too much time coding something you become blind. - PoloRM
Glad i could give you an idea =) good luck! - Denis O.
easiest workaround is to write it like this $ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", html_entity_decode(set_value('sec1_content', $default_value)), $config); - Denis O.

2 Answers

7
votes

It seems that CodeIgniter's func set_value() acts like htmlspecialchars() in some way. So if you are getting <any_tag> on CKEditor this workaround can help you. Change 

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", set_value('sec1_content', html_entity_decode($default_value)), $config);

To this:

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", html_entity_decode(set_value('sec1_content', $default_value)), $config);

PoloRM
Put html_entity_decode around set_value. The reason for this is obviously because the set_value method might not use the $default_value parameter but return the posted data instead.

1
votes

For people who might have the same issue with CodeIgniter/CKEditor:

The way to resolve this issue and still use the CodeIgniter set_value() method is the following:

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", set_value('sec1_content', html_entity_decode($default_value)), $config);

Do this:

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", html_entity_decode(set_value('sec1_content', $default_value)), $config);

Put html_entity_decode around set_value. The reason for this is obviously because the set_value method might not use the $default_value parameter but return the posted data instead.

Thank you coramba for making me realize my mistake.