Loved WYSIWYG BBCode editor

This is awesome - thank you, VERY much, for your efforts!

Just thought I would update y'all.

The smiley plugin is quite a bit of work. I should have it finished tomorrow, then I will look to integrate the Kunena css files, and then start on another (one of the few left) function. The list to do gets smaller.

Thank you for the effort you are putting into this

Really looking forward to testing it.

The bit I am working on right now is the smilies. Let me explain.

CKEditor comes with a smiley plugin. It uses its own smiley images that are in a sub-folder of the smiley plugin folder. So, first problem is to persuade the plugin to use the smilies in the Kunena media folder. Not so hard.

The plugin assumes bbcode symmetry to an image (only one BBcode tag per image). The problem is that Kunena has multiple BBCodes per smiley. This means re-coding the CKEditor plugin to handle multiple codes per image mapping (each smilie bbcode needs to be put through RegExp to escape code any symbol that is reserved.

Finally, the CKEditor plugin requires the user to edit the javascript if you want to change the default smilies. I need to get the plugin to use the settings set by the admin in the Kunena Icons back end administration page.

I had to stop yesterday as my head was spinning. A good night's sleep and a plan of action laid out in my head. Now I am coding it.

Crikey, this is hard.

Getting the plugin to use the Kunena smilies was simply setting a config path variable in the calling html document.

After many hours (way too many), I have now managed to program asymmetric bbcode to smiley lookup (the 2nd bit on the smiley 'to do' list). The finished version will need to call these lists from the #_kunena_smileys table in the Joomla database, but for now I have hand coded them.

Anyway, as much as I can do has now been done. The final version will need some work in the Kunena back end so that, when the user alters the smiley settings, the Kunena php code re-writes the javascript bbcode and smiley plugins. Shouldn't be hard to write. Later for that. The actual coding of smilies for Kunena is done.

I am going to take a look at incorporating the Kunena css code now.

You're working very hard on this one! Thanks from us all.
Really looking forward to being able to add images easily.

This has been the major issue... from my clients.
Thanks again for all your efforts