EXT: RTE Dummy Plugin¶

What does it do?¶

This extension add a new icon onto the RTE rtehtmlarea. In TYPO3 4.2 rtehtmlarea has been improved and can be easily extended with new plugins. This dummy plugin can spare you some learning time by having something runnable quickly that you can adapt to your need. This extension needs some TypoScript configuration before the new button is displayed in the RTE. See the installation section.

Use the manal of extension "rtehatmlare_api_manual", to know more about the rtehtmlarea API.

Screenshots¶

The extension add a new icon. The look & fill of the editor comes from extension modern_skin.

Installation¶

Read carefully this section!

Firstly, download and install the extension as usually by the mean of the Extensions Manager.

Secondly, you need to add some TypoScript in a page. Most likely it will be the root page. Do as follow: right click on the root page in the tree > edit page property then add something like this in the field TSConfig:

RTE.default.showButtons = *
RTE.default.toolbarOrder = dummyplugin, ..., ...., ....

At this point you should have a new button in your RTE. You can start editing the PHP and the javascript.

Beware that TYPO3 creates temporary javascript files for rtehtmlarea. Typically the files are stored in /typo3temp/rtehtmlarea/Dummyplugin_333421213.js and are not automatically updated when you edit the javascript source.

In the developing process, you can edit the temporary files and do a copy / paste to source file when the javascript is OK.

Further documentation¶

- extension key "rtehtmlarea_api_manual": very useful, contains necessary informations

- extension key "rtehtmlarea_manual": same as the manual of the system extension

- typo3_src-4.*/typo3/sysext/rtehtmlareauseful : RTE plugin examples

0.1¶

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