DDEditor Yii Extension ¶

This extension contains a widget to render an activeTextarea to enter Markdown text.

The rendered widget contains some buttons to add markdown tags for

• Bold, italic text
• Links
• Images
• Code
• Table structure.

It is also capable of displaying dropdown lists with additional text snippets for insertion.

Requirements ¶

• Yii 1.1.3 or above

Installation ¶

• Extract the release file under protected/extensions

Usage ¶

Include New Extension ¶

In your config/main.php file, add

// autoloading model and component classes
'import'=>array(
    ...
    'application.extensions.ddeditor.*',
    ...
),

Create the controll in a form view: ¶

In e.g. views/post/_form.php, include the following code:

<?php $this->widget(
    'application.extensions.ddeditor.DDEditor',
    array(
        'model'=>$model,
        'attribute'=>'content',
        'htmlOptions'=>array('rows'=>10, 'cols'=>70),
        'previewRequest'=>'post/preview')); ?>

If you want to display an extra dropdown list with snippets, you may add the additionalSnippets parameter:

<?php $mySnippets = array(
    'Users' => array(
        'id1' => 'John',
        'id2' => 'Paul',
    ),
    'Phrases' => array(
        'Text Foo' => 'foo',
        'Text Bar' => 'bar'
    )
); ?>

<?php $this->widget(
    'application.extensions.ddeditor.DDEditor',
    array(
        'model'=>$model,
        'attribute'=>'content',
        'htmlOptions'=>array('rows'=>10, 'cols'=>70),
        'previewRequest'=>'post/preview',
        'additionalSnippets'=>array('My Snippets'=>$mySnippets),
); ?>

Add a Controller Preview Action ¶

In order to receive a rendered preview of the textarea Markdown, add an action method to a controller:

public function actionPreview()
{
    $parser=new CMarkdownParser;
    echo $parser->safeTransform($_POST['Post'][$_GET['attribute']]);
}

Resources ¶

• Demo
• Discussion

Changes ¶

March 29, 2010 ¶

• V0.4
• Added code sample for using additionalSnippets in README
• Added reset of additional snippets dropdown list after selection

March 28, 2010 ¶

• V0.3
• Fixed Depreciated: split warning
• Added additionalSnippets member
• Added Code Highlighter dropdown list

August 31, 2010 ¶

• V0.2
• Fixed setting $previewReaquest
• Fixed setting client script id's for using multiple editors in one form

August 30, 2010 ¶

• V0.1 Initial release.