Figured it out at last - TinyMCE templates/snippets

[geeves]

Hye guys.

I've been trying to figure this one out for a while but finally managed to get something working.

Templates in TinyMCE.

1. First, you need to enable the templates plugin in the TinyMCE module configuration (Extensions > TinyMCE WYSIWYG)
2. Go to the Plugins tab and check the templates plugin. Save plugins
3. Add the template plugin to a toolbar in the profiles tab. Save profile
4. Unless someone can get this working in the 'Extra configuration' section under 'Advanced':
    open the file: modules/TinyMCE/templates/tinyconfig.tpl

5. add the following code AFTER line 80 which looks like this:

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{if $extraconfig!=''}
  {$extraconfig}
{/if}

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{literal}
,template_cdate_classes : "cdate creationdate",
	template_mdate_classes : "mdate modifieddate",
	template_selected_content_classes : "selcontent",
	template_cdate_format : "%m/%d/%Y : %H:%M:%S",
	template_mdate_format : "%m/%d/%Y : %H:%M:%S",
	template_replace_values : {
		username : "Jack Black",
		staffid : "991234"
	},
	template_templates : [
		{
			title : "Sample snippet",
			src : "./tinymce_templates/test.htm",
			description : "Sample snippet"
		}
	]
{/literal}

6. Modify your own templates and location of templates within 'template_templates' (above).

The code above was taken from the TinyMCE wiki: http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/Tin ... s/template

Replace with your own values/settings etc.

If anyone can do this in a cleaner and more efficient way, please let us know.

[superstoffe]

This works great, compared to putting it in the admin "extra configuration" atleast.

Got a little problem though. Can't seem to get more than one template to work?! And all the Jack Black jibberish, why is that needed? It doesnt seem to work without.

[superstoffe]

Was a bit fast there 

This seems to work:

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{literal}
,template_cdate_classes : "cdate creationdate",
	template_mdate_classes : "mdate modifieddate",
	template_selected_content_classes : "selcontent",
	template_cdate_format : "%m/%d/%Y : %H:%M:%S",
	template_mdate_format : "%m/%d/%Y : %H:%M:%S",
	template_replace_values : {
		username : "Jack Black",
		staffid : "991234"
	},
	template_templates : [
		{
			title : "Template 1",
			src : "./modules/TinyMCE/templates/template1.html",
			description : "Template 1 example"
		},
		{
			title : "Template 2",
			src : "./modules/TinyMCE/templates/template2.html",
			description : "Template 2 example"
		}
	]
{/literal}

[Jonny]

I prefer to avoid editing anything within the TinyMCE module's files, and instead use an external template list file, as described in the tinyMCE documentation.

The list file, list.php, is stored in a folder named user_templates in the root (I also put the templates in the same directory for convenience).

list.php contains:

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var tinyMCETemplateList = [
	// Name, URL, Description
	["Layout", "/user_templates/layout.html", "HTML Layout."],
	["Other", "/user_templates/other.html","Another template"]
];

Then in the Extra Configuration box of Extensions/TinyMCE WYSIWYG/Advanced enter the URL to the list file

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template_external_list_url :  '/user_templates/list.php'

[KO]

Steps 4-5 can done in TinyMCE "extra configuration" so no changes needed to any files. You just have to make it right or you might lose your editor Earlier versions of TinyMCE were very strick what you write on that box but latest versions (tried it with version that comes with 1.7) seems to be much more relaxed. One extra line break and editor was gone.

Here is one that makes 2 templates:

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template_templates : [{title : "Test template 1",
		src : "templatetest1.htm",
		description : "Description for test template 1"},
{title : "Test Testitemplate 2",
		src : "templatetest2.htm",
		description : "Description for test template 2"}]

Those templates "templatetest1.htm" and "templatetest2.htm" are now in webroot unless you change the path in src.

[micahgodbolt]

I created a detailed how to. You can find it at

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,49098.0.html