Authored by: anonymous on Wednesday, January 01 2003 @ 11:43 AM EST

I've been incorporating HTMLAREA's WYSIWYG into a site where users are very HTML dumb. They are going to love this -- at least those who have MSIE 5.5 or better.

For those who don't, I wanted the site to default to plain text postmode.

Here's how I handle changing the $_CONF[postmode] based on browser type and version.

I've added this code to lib-custom.php

//HACK FOR DETERMINING HTMLAREA COMPATIBILITY
//make user agent into an array
$browser = explode(' ',$HTTP_USER_AGENT);
//Get key for MSIE if in the array
$i = array_search('MSIE',$browser);
//if found MSIE
if ($i > 0)
{
//Get MSIE version, trim trailing ;
    $browserver = rtrim($browser[$i+1],";");
//check version is at least 5.5
    if (floatval($browserver) >= 5.5)
      $_CONF[postmode]='html';
} ELSE {
      $_CONF[postmode]='plaintext';
}

That's it. Now those users who can use HTMLAREA's features (MSIE v.5.5 or greater) get default HTML and those who will get a vanilla textarea get plain text as default.

NOTE: I have tested this on MSIE v.6 and NETSCAPE 6, both on Windows. I haven't had a chance to check this on other platforms or with MSIE less than 5.5.

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Authored by: anonymous on Wednesday, January 01 2003 @ 02:45 PM EST

What a brilliant addition to Geeklog - Just what I have been looking for. Does anyone know how these java scripts could be incorporated into php to make it immediately available to all themes used on the site? This would make future upgrades much easier. Thanks again I'm trying it out on my site now.History and News

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Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, January 02 2003 @ 09:33 PM EST

EXCELLENT find, Tom!! I've installed htmlarea on my sites using your instructions and "package", and it works perfectly.

My editor-challenged writers will be thrilled.

EKwant

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Authored by: anonymous on Monday, April 28 2003 @ 10:04 AM EDT

Hi Tom,

I tried to install the htmlarea editor, but it works only for the non admin areas.

The htmlarea editor does not show up in static page editor and storyeditor . Is there any other modification needed besides those you mentioned.

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