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Sao Tavi	Thursday 16 June 2011 12:37:16 pm I tried to create something like an autosave feature for an ezxmltext, but I soon found out that it is not that easy to save the new data into the db in the correct format. I tried looking at ezxmltext datatype for getting help, but after several hours I gave up. So... if I have in php the contents from a tiny mce editor and the contentObjectAttribute, how can I save them into the database in the right format? What I did was either stripping the images or a lot of other things that were not right. Oh, and just as a note: something strange happened, when trying to add images to the xml text I was getting some errors (like 'Exponential "A file is required for upload, no file were found. No HTTP file found, cannot fetch uploaded file.') . Trying to find out the problems origins, without changing anything, it magically solved by itself after several tries and checking this on another Exponential install on the same server... Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce it. PS: The redirection system is not good when using multiple tabs on the same Exponential installation. Maybe it should use post variables instead of cookies? I believe I should post this in the issues tracker.
Sao Tavi	Thursday 16 June 2011 2:54:24 pm With a little bit of help, I found the answer eventually. It seems that I needed to use the parser from ezoe, it works with no problems now. Here is the code used: $parser = new eZOEInputParser( ); $parser->setParseLineBreaks( true ); if (!$document = $parser->process( $http->postVariable('val') )) return 'failed to parse'; // Create XML structure $xmlString = eZXMLTextType::domString( $document ); $options['description']->setAttribute('data_text', $xmlString); $options['description']->store();

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Sao Tavi

Thursday 16 June 2011 12:37:16 pm

I tried to create something like an autosave feature for an ezxmltext, but I soon found out that it is not that easy to save the new data into the db in the correct format. I tried looking at ezxmltext datatype for getting help, but after several hours I gave up.

So... if I have in php the contents from a tiny mce editor and the contentObjectAttribute, how can I save them into the database in the right format?

What I did was either stripping the images or a lot of other things that were not right.

Oh, and just as a note: something strange happened, when trying to add images to the xml text I was getting some errors (like 'Exponential "A file is required for upload, no file were found. No HTTP file found, cannot fetch uploaded file.') . Trying to find out the problems origins, without changing anything, it magically solved by itself after several tries and checking this on another Exponential install on the same server... Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce it.

PS: The redirection system is not good when using multiple tabs on the same Exponential installation. Maybe it should use post variables instead of cookies? I believe I should post this in the issues tracker.

Sao Tavi

Thursday 16 June 2011 2:54:24 pm

With a little bit of help, I found the answer eventually. It seems that I needed to use the parser from ezoe, it works with no problems now.

Here is the code used:

                $parser = new eZOEInputParser( );
                $parser->setParseLineBreaks( true );

                if (!$document = $parser->process( $http->postVariable('val') ))
                    return 'failed to parse';

                // Create XML structure
                $xmlString = eZXMLTextType::domString( $document );

$options['description']->setAttribute('data_text', $xmlString);
$options['description']->store();