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Use JCE editor on text area's in Chronforms 6 form

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jj135 21 Mar, 2019
We would like to use the JCE editor on a text area in a CF6 form. We have set the option in CF6 to 'Rich text editor' but I think this produces a CF6 bundled editor. Is there a way to use the edior set in the Joomla CMS? In our case the JCE editor.
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Advantages of using the JCE editor: We can create a custom profile for frontend users, even for specific components. That way we can select the editor options / layout that we prefer.
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If this is not possible in CF6 at the moment, will the maybe be added as a feature in the near future? Or is there a workaround to get this done?
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Kind regards,
Jip
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healyhatman 21 Mar, 2019
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27523066/how-to-add-attribute-name-to-jfactorygeteditor
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Try this.
Gr
GreyHead 22 Mar, 2019
Hi Jip,
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You can use a standard textarea element in your form and then add custom JavaScript to add a different editor to it. There is a FAQ showing how to do this with an earlier version of CF - I think the code for Cfv6 should be very similar.
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Bob
jj
jj135 27 Mar, 2019
OK, thanks. I will see if I can find the code and try it.
jj
jj135 27 Mar, 2019
Answer
I got it done this way:
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1) Where you want to the JCE editor field to appear: Add a Custom HTML element. (This can also contain PHP)
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2) Add this code to the content of the element
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<?php
$editor =JFactory::getEditor();
$params = array( 'smilies'=> '0' ,
  'style'  => '0' ,  
  'layer'  => '0' , 
  'table'  => '0' ,
  'clear_entities'=>'0'
  );
echo $editor->display( 'myelementid', '', '', '', '', '', false, $params );
?>
The 'myelement' id will be the data that is passed to Chronoforms and you need to add this to the email that is send (if you use that action).
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(Not sure what the paramaters do exactly and maybe you can leave this empty, but I have not tried that. You can configure the editor settings in the JCE component)
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In JCE: Make sure you have an active profile for the frontend!
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(In our case we created a custom profile in JCE for the frontend for the CF component only.)
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Hope this helps other with the same question.
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