Inserting PHP html string into TinyMCE editor

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Im trying to get HTML from my MySQL table inserted into my TinyMCE editor. But I have serious trouble setting up the PHP string into Javascript.

when I just try to insert it like this:

tinymce.activeEditor.setContent("'<? echo $description; ?>'", {format: 'raw'});

It has trouble with the single quotes and the double quotes in the $description variable. I get unidentified id's in my string because the string gets cut off due to the single and double quotes that are located in the string.

How can I insert this into TinyMCE, which ultimately comes down to how to make a HTML string without cutting of early?

Escape the characters in the string. There's plenty of PHP functions for doing that such as htmlspecialchars() and the like. — GordonM
– GordonM, Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 12:27

mrks · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-06 11:53:07Z

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You can simply replace those characters:

tinymce.activeEditor.setContent("'<? echo str_replace(array('"', "'"), array('\"', "\'"), $description); ?>'", {format: 'raw'});

edited Dec 6, 2017 at 11:53

answered Dec 6, 2017 at 10:27

mrks

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Kuubs Over a year ago

No this doesnt work because then the code doesn't get identified by TinyMCE and I get source code straight into it. I need to make sure TinyMCE id's the html code.

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