TOPIC: Simple WYSIWYG editor for frontend adding of hotspots

Most people who will be using frontend adding don't know html and a simple WYSIWYG editor would be useful in creating more attractive description pages. Maybe there can be an option in the backend to toggle this on & off

I personally don't need a WYSIWYG editor, but it will be a cool feature for people don't know html.

I was thinking of this myself. I wanted to research what simple editors there are and add one to the component. Created a feature issue for this:
dev.compojoom.com/issues/674

Daniel,
We have a real need for a WYSIWYG editor on the description field of the frontend form. We use JCE which allows you to define a profile for frontend users and restrict to specific components if need be. We defined one just for Hotspots but, of course, it won't display on the frontend without some changes.

I hadn't looked at adding a WYSIWYG editor to the description field for a few weeks but while this was on my mind I took a quick look. Using the JCE editor I was able to add a WYS field to the frontend description form field (form.php) by adding the class "wfEditor" to the textarea and the 3 lines of code below near the top of the page.

$editor=JFactory::getEditor();
$editor->initialise();
$editor->display('wysiwyg','','310px','81px',30,20);

This might work for any WYSIWYG editor.

Hey Gregory,
This is the standard way to add editors to a field in joomla. However I just want to add an editor that has just few opitons
aling, bold, italic - paragraph, h2 etc. I don't want to give the users too many options, because this creates one big mess with some inexperienced users.
For those who want to have an editor right now this is a good example Thanks!

Daniel

That was my thought exactly. I used JCE so I could easily limit the options. The solution works for the time being but I am looking forward to it being part of Hotspots.