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Hearner
Hearner

Reputation: 2709

Inserting or copy/pasting picture to a textbox

I have a file with a textarea (named "Resolution support") in which you can explain how to solve a problem. My problem is that a user would be able to add a picture for a better explaining. If he copy/paste or he has to click and drag or anything i don't care, he HAS TO be able to put a picture into the textarea. I wondered if another textbox that can do this would exist and what Type does the textbox has to be in PhpMyAdmin.

My textarea :

<textarea  name="Escalade" class="longInput" cols="80%" rows="19" wrap="hard">
</textarea>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 14191

Answers (3)

user17397369
user17397369

Reputation: 11

While it is true that you cannot use a textarea, the answer is very simple. You can use a content editable div, grab the contents as html and write it to a databae using AJAX and PHP.

Just name a div like this:

<div class="my_article" contenteditable></div>

and pass the contents on the click of a button into a JS variable and then pass that into PHP using AJAX.

var content1 = $('.my_article').html();

If anyone needs further help please comment and I'll be happy to obligue.

Upvotes: 1

Hearner
Hearner

Reputation: 2709

If someone is looking for an answer, I had asked my profesor and he answered that what I was looking for is a "Rich Text Editor". I'm using ckeditor with the plugin prgfilemanager. It allows me to insert pictures but I cannot copy/paste them which is pretty annoying...

You can try it here http://ckeditor.com/demo I hope it will help you if you have the same problem that I had :)

Upvotes: 1

Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt
Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt

Reputation: 2305

Without some kind of JavaScript WYSIWYG library this is not possible as vanilla textarea only takes text (clue is in the name).

I assume that you are viewing the submissions in phpMyAdmin which is an interface onto a MySQL database. It is good for developing stuff but not so great as an admin user interface long term. What you are asking about are called transformations.

Here are some tutorials on storing images in a database:

Here are some lists of WYSIWYG editors:

Those phpMyAdmin transformations:

That is about as much help as can be offered to you without seeing the PHP code behind the form at the very least. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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