Editor API
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The editor API lets you control Moodle text editors. It can be found in lib/editorlib.php.
Normally you do not need to use this API directly because you can include editors as part of a Moodle form, which will automatically set up the editor for you.
This documentation is (very) incomplete.
How to set up a text editor
To set up a text editor on an existing HTML text area field:
- Call function editors_get_preferred_editor(), which will return an object of the texteditor class.
- Call function use_editor to enable the editor for the text area.
For example, assuming there is an HTML text area with id mytextareaid:
$editor = editors_get_preferred_editor(FORMAT_HTML);
$editor->use_editor('mytextareaid');
Editor options
The use_editor function allows an options array to be supplied.
General options
- context
- set to the current context object
- enable_filemanagement
- set false to get rid of the managefiles plugin
- autosave
- set false to turn off autosave
Atto-specific options
- toolbar
- set to override which icons appear on the toolbar (normally it uses the admin setting - this is for special cases e.g. if you want a minimal editor in a particular plugin).
The following code will cause atto to show the four buttons indicated.
$attobuttons = 'style1 = bold, italic'. PHP_EOL .'list = unorderedlist, orderedlist';
$editor->use_editor($id, ['context' => $context, 'autosave' => false, 'atto:toolbar' => $attobuttons],
['return_types' => FILE_EXTERNAL]);