CodeIgniter - Save HTML content of WYSIWYG editor in a database to be used at a later date

Question

This may be a longshot but I am struggling to find help online and I am genuinely lost ..

I am building a CodeIgniter Web App where users can sign in, and create email templates, then send them to contacts..

I am using the Trumbowyg Editor for creating the email templates which I have found quite good and flexible, i have pre-made templates the users can select and edit if they please..

what i want however is for a user to create their own template, or make edits to an existing one, and save it to be able to come back at a later date.. I think it is possible to save it to my database, I have a template table setup correctly with foreign keys etc and i have the 'templatestyle' field type set as 'blob', in order to save the content here..

I am able to get the contents of the wysiwyg as when I test out this code of clicking the saveContent button I get the current content in the console.log;

 $("#saveContent").click(function(){ console.log($("#trumbowyg-demo").html()); });

so what i need is this content saved to my database template table which has 3 columns; 'an id, a foreign key id for the user, and the template style..

I realise there is a lot in here and any code provided in order to help me set this up to save my database will be massively appreciated

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Generally speaking you just have to send a simple post with one var to a controller method that receives the post var and inputs it in the database.

JS:

$("#saveContent").click(function () {
    var content = $("#trumbowyg-demo").html();
    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        url: '/somecontroller/add',
        data: {
            content: content
        },
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function (data) {
            if (data.status == 'error') {
                alert('An error occured: ' + data.msg);
            } else {
                alert('Success: ' + data.msg)
            }
        }
    });
});

PHP:

class Somecontroller extends CI_Controller {

    public function add() {

        $content = $this->input->post('content');

        if (empty($content)) {
            echo json_encode(array('status' => 'error', 'msg' => 'Content field cannot be empty!'));
            exit;
        }

        // db functions should be move to a model
        // probably would be a good idea to filter $content somehow
        // all the db insert does is escape
        $this->db->insert('sometable', array('somefield' => $content));

        echo json_encode(array('status' => 'success', 'msg' => 'Item added with id: ' . $this->db->insert_id()));
        exit;
    }

}