Show PHP code on page

[PeterM]

Hi,

I started working on the template building text. It uses a lot of php-code snippets. I can paste them inside the fck-editor. But when i save the page and reopen it, the formatting is gone, and it looks really bad.

How can i use these snippets, so people can copy and paste them without losing the formatting?

PeterM

Edit:
I want to use the manual module for this. When i use a simple WYSIWYG page i can use php-code, but when using the manual module it gets all tangled up.

[kweitzel]

OK ... there is the "code" type page/section, which is thought for this. What you could try as an alternative is open the "source" view of your WYSIWYG editor and paste the code into the required php-tags.

Haven't tried it though ...

cheers

Klaus

[PeterM]

But the code page is for running php-code. I just want to display it. And it is working in the WYSIWYG form, but not with the manual module, where i also use the WYSIWYG editor.

This is a normal WYSIWYG page on my site where php-code can be displayed:
http://www.mijnplekophetnet.nl/pages/themes/road-to-conversion.php

This is a page made with the manual module displaying the same text.
http://www.mijnplekophetnet.nl/pages/manual105/bad.php

I pasted the same text in the html code screen. Saved it. Everything looked good. Opened it again and saved it again. Then everything went wrong as you can see.

With a normal WYSIWYG page this doesn't happen.

[kweitzel]

OK ... I see what you mean ... didn't HTML have a special "quote" tag for this kind of display?

sorry, I have not much time on my hands ...

cheers

Klaus

[PeterM]

I guess you mean te CDATA keyword.

[PeterM]

I tested it some more. When i open a new page with WYSIWYG and i type:

<?php ?> it is saved the right way.

When i type <?php ?> in a manual module page it get's deleted while saving. So i guess the problem is with the manual module.

[pcwacht]

Looks to me there are differences between wysiwyg and manual in the way they store (or retrieve) the data from the database

John

[PeterM]

Looks to me there are differences between wysiwyg and manual in the way they store (or retrieve) the data from the database

John

I guess you are right. I hope there is a quick fix for this. It's a great module.

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

Rob has fixed the code problem in the manual modul. Look here for the new version:

http://forum.websitebaker.org/index.php/topic,308.msg19911.html#msg19911

Matthias