wysiwyg, and the ability to split and merge each post native in fireboard are all that is keeping it from being the best of the best. I am oing to be moving to fireboard from SMF because of the integration with Joomla, and we look forward to the newest version as it comes out. I have to keep reminding myself that SMF is years old, and Fireboard is just barely over a year old.

I believe that bestofjoomla is going to create the best forum for Joomla....I am just going to have to be patient.

jared bonshire wrote:
Is it just me, or is it a little ridiculous for Fireboard to NOT have a native option for WYSIWYG? PHPBB, SMF, and all other top of the line forums are beginning to realize the the FUTURE is wysiwyg. I know that on my smf board, we have wysiwyg and our users love it. We use the hoteditor mod, and it is simply 1000 times better than the bbcode that seems to prevail throughout the forum community. What I don't understand however, is why? It simply does not make sense to me.

Instead, you have a bbCode Help bar up above........that just seems silly to me.

But anyway, I guess a crazy mod instead of simply providing an option after install for wysiwyg is the way to go.

To paraphrase something when I asked a very similar question that grumblemarc told me...

When the dev team sat down and wrote out their goals for FB, WYSIWYG was not on their mind. Their goal was to write a forum application that natively works with Joomla. No bridges, no hacks, no prayers necessary. Plug and play as it should be. Many pages back (search for my name, heh) there was some mention of the SVN (nightly builds) having this included, but to my knowledge (and it's been a few months since I've checked/updated) it was not included, and still not necessarily part of the intended plan.

Before you get all mad crazy about it, consider that the easiest way CMS's are getting hacked is through forum packages like you just mentioned: PHPBB, SMF and any other package out there that uses WYSIWYG editors opens your CMS to hackers and exploiters, if they know what they are doing. My best educated guess tells me this was one of the reasons it was not included in FB. Merely speculation of course, but... When I first came here, I asked the same question, and that's what I was told. The good news is that if you choose to risk it and open that door, the people here have laid it out in great detail how to add it to FB. All ya gotta do is follow along. Always nice to have choices available like that.

Wondering what the latest version of this is.. Somewhere in the page 20's there was a version 2.. Is that still the current version for this workaround/hack?

I have tried TinyMCE_Mod_v2(2).zip and follow your instruction.

note: I tried unzip the tinymce_3_1_0 to my joomla mambot folder and point the fb_write.html.php to it and that wasn't working. So i have to point back to my JCE's tinymce

assuming my site is www.abc.com

I managed to get to the stage where I have the tinymce editor on but my problem is when I copy and paste some stuff from other url like image. example www.123.com/1.jpg it does preview okay but when i click on the thread. I have a broken image and the url of the image is show as www.abc.com.my/%22http:/123.com/1.jpg%22


I did the following and still couldn't get it to work
* check my relative or absolute url
* set the document_base_url =""; not helping
* I check my JCE (which is the tinymce i am pointing to) and i don't have the problem like above with image url issue.

Perhaps anyone could help me here....


Thanks


regards,
Mozzie

I'd like to return to this old question. I run a joomla-based site for kids and teachers and parents (ie NOT techies). It is intended to be really user-friendly.

I have a forum and it is the least user friendly part of the website. It is Fireboard based and it looks and acts just like this forum. And while us techies are comfortable seeing brackets and b and slash bs, normal people expect the computer to hide this code from them and present the page in WYSIWIG fashion. I guess you might say that there should be a parsing interface which shows the text fully rendered.

Does such an interface exist for Fireboard? Is it in the works?

Any Ideas?
(my site is SpellingCity.com)

Aside from this hack no such animal exists.

mozzie:

It's been a while and I forgot the gory details of what I did but as far as I recall coercing TinyMCE into FB involved a lot of commenting things out. If you find my documented steps unhelpful in your case, you may be using a newer code that moved what you need to cut out somewhere else. I recommend that you start by looking in your SQL database and seeing if the messages are "ruined" before storage. If so, trace what happens to the message text between fb_write.html.php, smile.class.php and post.php. If the messages are fine there, then they may get corrupted by view.php as it preps them for display.

As for not being able to load anything but the default Joomla tinyMCE, did you make sure that the textarea you're loading has an id matching the one that the editor's config file is claiming for itself? I remember my hacked files using mceEditor as identifier, or something similar. You can use them for reference even if your code is newer.

Good luck.

A stripped version of TinyMCE is doable. Stardock has updated there WYSIWYG-editor to a custom TinyMCE version. Or is it infact the stardand version. Not sure. But TinyMCE is doable.

Birger

I think you missed the point.

Gom's hack was based off of using TinyMCE. Based off this hack I think others tried integrating different editors successfully. We already KNOW it's doable.

The question is why is it not working now?

Does anyone know if the Fireboard people are working on a nice interface? Are they aware of this discussion of it? If they aren't, does anyone know how to contact them?

I'd be interested in some help (Paid) to put up a nice UI on the fireboard interface. Contact us if you can help.

The site - which is doing over 100K visits a month now - is SpellingCity.