Editor

[flaskbb]

Editor

[hbrls]

I support the idea that Markdown Only rather than WYSIWYG. I'm a frontend. What can I do for you?

[sh4nks]

I would like to have both (bbcode and markdown) options. So the admin can choose when creating the forum which markup language he wants to use. What do you think about that?

[hbrls]

I'm blueprinting a forum for tech/geek, so I'd like to force the users to use markdown only. Having options is always better suiting general purpose forums.
But I'm still going nowhere, can not decide which is the best markdown editor. WYSIWYG is so proven. Markdown is relatively new.

[manistal]

I really like SCEditor. In order to pick that up the python side would have to include a bbcode parser as well (since SCEditor doesn't parse BBCode client side). I'm thinking all you'd have to do is update the assets for their CSS/JS, add in the JQuery constructor for the editor, add the data-attribute to the form, and parse the content after POST (bbcode.render_html(self.content.data)) and make sure the escaping is done properly on display.

I'll create a pull request if I get a chance to play with this more, for reference here's the libs I was thinking:

http://www.sceditor.com/documentation/getting-started/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbcode/1.0.19

[sh4nks]

Ok, keep me updated on this. :)

[manistal]

Took a quick crack at implementing it, here's what I have so far:

https://github.com/manistal/flaskbb/tree/editor

A couple issues I ran into:
-- Wasn't sure where to stick the JS/CSS includes, looks like most of them are in layout.html which exists once for each theme and the default so I updated all of them
-- Wasn't sure where to stick the JS constructor so I added it to topic.js and added topic.js to any template rendering the text area
-- I couldn't get the icons to center properly on the toolbar, but I suck at CSS, I'm probably missing something simple

Quick notes about the serverside bbcode parsing:
-- The bbcode parser escapes HTML strings that are passed in with the editor content so I removed the |markup out of the Jinja template assuming that everythings coming from the editor (may be a bad assumption?)
-- The bbcode parser might not support all the tags that come on that editor, two options, one is limit the toolbar to only show tags supported by default, or can add the tags as custom tags to the parser (i.e. import the parser into some util and add the tags you and import the modified parser into the forms)

[sh4nks]

We are already using a bbcode parser btw (postmarkup) and the markup rendering thing is done here: https://github.com/sh4nks/flaskbb/blob/master/flaskbb/utils/helpers.py#L284-L293

and maybe it would be better to just add the static files (css/js) for the editor to just those files where it is needed :)

-- The bbcode parser might not support all the tags that come on that editor, two options, one is limit the toolbar to only show tags supported by default, or can add the tags as custom tags to the parser (i.e. import the parser into some util and add the tags you and import the modified parser into the forms)

i think removing the tags from the editor is the best idea.

btw, i suck at css and js too, thats way i have never implemented this

[manistal]

Haven't had a chance to clean everything up yet, but thanks for the heads up on the bbcode parser! I didn't even look through the utils like I should've. I'll try and clean everything up and get you a solid branch of the fork to take a look at and decide if you like how the editor fits.