Save content after using rich text editor

Rails
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I’ve built my own Rich Text Editor (more control :slight_smile: ). In an old
solution in php I think I used a hidden field to take the text before
hitting save. Is that actually the way to go? Are there any limits in
how much a hidden field can hold? Or how do I otherwise “catch” the text
in a save if this is not the way to do it?

The rte is using an iframe for editing.

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Hussein P. wrote:

Hi. I may be way off the mark here, but I figure it couldn’t hurt to
have a stab at helping out.

You could just have the text bound to a variable, and, given a filename
entered on the page, save the variable contents to the file. Not sure
if Rails supports on-the-fly creating of files that don’t exist, as is
the case with procedural languages such as C.

But to answer your question, I can’t see why you couldn’t have the text
in a variable somewhere, just as long as that variable was passed
through each page that the user passed through until it was either
destroyed or the contents saved.

Not much of an answer I know, but who knows, maybe someone else has a
more err 'explanatory solution.

Hussein.

Thanks.

I guess the easiest would be to use a hidden field. I just wonder if it
has any limits in terms of character length. I’ll give it a try.

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Hi. I may be way off the mark here, but I figure it couldn’t hurt to
have a stab at helping out.

You could just have the text bound to a variable, and, given a filename
entered on the page, save the variable contents to the file. Not sure
if Rails supports on-the-fly creating of files that don’t exist, as is
the case with procedural languages such as C.

But to answer your question, I can’t see why you couldn’t have the text
in a variable somewhere, just as long as that variable was passed
through each page that the user passed through until it was either
destroyed or the contents saved.

Not much of an answer I know, but who knows, maybe someone else has a
more err 'explanatory solution.

Hussein.