Derek,
That looks promising - I'll give it a try.
The other issue I'm trying to solve is more of a browser/client issue. If a user has typed a message using the HTML editor, and then uses the toggle button to switch to the plain text editor, it would be ideal if this same HTML->Text rendering were performed. However, the PHP solution is a "back end" solution that would require another trip to the server.
I see three options:
- empty the text field when switching editor types (users will be mad)
- re-post the page when switching editor types, so the PHP HTML->Text or Text->HTML can be done on the server (slow and kind of an interruption)
- do the conversion in _javascript_ in the browser (TinyMCE doesn't do this, so we'd have to find a _javascript_ implementation of an HTML->Text renderer)
Any thoughts or other options? If #2 is the choice, I'd also like to ask for suggestions as to the best way to implement it.
-Eric
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:40:38 +0800, "Derek Hinchliffe" wrote:
On 6/6/06, Eric Stadtherr wrote:
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> Strip the HTML tags using strip_tags() and just leave the text without any formatting.
> Write or integrate an HTML=>text renderer (similar to what would be in a text-only web browser)
> Clear the contents of the text field when switching editor types
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> Any thoughts from the group?
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From a user point of view (and what is expected from other email
clients) the HTML->Text renderer would be by far the best option. I
looked into this for something else and I found the following GPLed
PHP class that is a good starting point:
http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text.php
Cheers
Derek
