I would like to have formatting buttons for the wiki. i.e. when linking to a wiki page all I would need to do is highlight the word and click a button to have the double square brackets around that word: i.e

additionally things like bold, italics, h4, h5, h6 etc…

its a good request.  although i’m using textile for me formatting it woulfd be helpful for my users if there was a more wysiwyg formatting system.  i’ve not edited a wiki before so i don’t knpw if this is common or not…

It would be nice to have this as an option.  I vote for it.

People usually avoid wikis becaus it looks complicated.

If you want to use TinyMCE from Moxie code then it doesn’t really need a plugin:

Just follow the instructions for the Extension by getting it here then

Depending on the template that you are using for the WIKI, open the file (for example) default.php in the default folder (under wiki_themes) then:

Find the line 27 after the meta tags and add the following:

Notice the text ‘path to your’ - you need to change to your location of the tiny_mce javascript file.
The settings are mine. You can put all sorts in here but I suggest that you keep it simple.

One more thing: You need to configure the wiki so that ‘any HTML is allowed’, other wise heading tags won’t work.

This is just my first stab at this, so if anyone notices any issues, let me know.

Further recommendation: I suggest that you create your own wiki template and edit that rather than edit the default one.

back to the drawing board!

All OK but if you want to use the file upload feature in the WIKI then this breaks it. That is to say: you can upload alright but the add tag to the page helper doesn’t work. I can’t see a way round this because it looks as if the Tiny_MCE javascript is creating an instance of the textarea that the EE code doesn’t know about.

Any one got any ideas?

Anyone out there have any ideas on this:

TinyMCE wysiwig editor hides the actual edit field and puts an iFrame there instead. So, if you want to use TinyMCE in your WIKI then you have a problem when using the add_tag javascript, within the wiki template.

The code looks like this:

Now the field named article_content can’t be written to, instead we need to target the iFrame. Is it possible to modify that code above to do this?

Just for the record, I think the wysiwyg editors are fine, but I’m really only interested in just a few buttons like the plugin for comments but instead for the wiki.

Good point, Wiki must remain as simple as posible.

Chris Jennings - 01 June 2006 05:53 AM

Anyone out there have any ideas on this:

TinyMCE wysiwig editor hides the actual edit field and puts an iFrame there instead. So, if you want to use TinyMCE in your WIKI then you have a problem when using the add_tag javascript, within the wiki template.

The code looks like this:

function add_tag (ourTag)
{
    var theField = document.getElementById('article_content');
etc etc:

Now the field named article_content can’t be written to, instead we need to target the iFrame. Is it possible to modify that code above to do this?

As that code is in the Wiki theme files, yes, you can modify it as you see fit.

So was it established that we COULD use the TinyMCE editor to make our EE wikis WYSIWYG, particularly if we’re not using the file-upload feature?

I got the file upload feature to work by modifying my wiki template and changing the function ‘add_tag’

The only problem with this is that cannot insert an image of file at the cursor but only at the end of the edit text.

Hope this helps. My wiki is here but not much in there yet.

Adding my support for The Linguist’s request.

I tried pasting the {exp:comment_buttons} tag into the wiki template page.  It shows up OK, but it doesn’t work.  I didn’t think it would, but it was worth a try.

This would be a HUGE help, especially since novices to Wikis have a hard time grasping “surround the text with double brackets to create a new entry/link.”  I get entries surrounded by single brackets, curly brackets, and parens.  A button would eliminate the confusion.

A more lightweight option than TinyMCE exists I believe with WYSIWIKI, a wysiwyg editor designed for wiki use.

In an attempt to cook up my own formatting buttons, I have found that the name of the form being declared which contains the fields to edit the wiki is encapsulated in the following tag:

does anyone know the name of the form that is declared?  would you care to share that information?

kevin floyd - 25 September 2006 03:18 PM

does anyone know the name of the form that is declared?  would you care to share that information?

Not sure if I understood your request, but looking at the HTML code of a wiki page when editing, I see:

Just ignore if its not what you are looking for