JFactory/getEditor

Returns a reference to the global editor object, only creating it if it doesn't already exist. The object returned will be of type JEditor.

Syntax

object JEditor getEditor( $editor )

where:

Argument	Data type	Description	Default
$editor	string	The name of the editor (for example, 'tinymce'). If null then the current editor will be returned.	null

Example

In this example, you can see how to display the editor and send specific display parameters.

$editor =& JFactory::getEditor();
$params = array( 'smilies'=> '0' ,
                 'style'  => '1' ,  
                 'layer'  => '0' , 
                 'table'  => '0' ,
                 'clear_entities'=>'0'
                 );
echo $editor->display( 'desc', '', '400', '400', '20', '20', false, $params );

For a complete list of parameters that can be passed to the TinyMCE editor, see the Joomla source file: /plugins/editor/tinymce.php.

HINT for your JModel: Be aware that JRequest::GET by default filters all HTML-code. To store HTML-code with your model class you MUST explicitely allow HTML in JReqest::GET, otherwise all HTML will be stripped

/*The store-procedure in your model might then look like this*/
[...] 
function store()
{
  $row =& $this->getTable();
  $data = JRequest::get( 'post');
  /* Get proper data for your HTML-encoded field now */
  $data['description']=JRequest::getVar( 'description', '', 'post', 'string', JREQUEST_ALLOWHTML );
 
  $row->bind($data);
  [...] 
  $row->check();
  [...] 
  $row->store();
  [...] 
}
[...]

See also

• JFactory->getEditor on api.joomla.org
• JEditor