Thank you, that's extremely helpful, exactly what I was looking for.
I'll try it out... may be back with questions!
Regards,
Sharon
On Jan 21, 9:01 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:05 AM, WhyNotSmile <sharongilmor...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > In my admin area, I would like to give the user the option to
> > 'Preview' the page they are creating or editing. I just can't quite
> > get my head around how to do it, so wondered if anyone can advise me.
>
> > Ideally, here's what I'd like: the user is editing a page in the admin
> > area, and at any time can click a button which says 'Preview'. This
> > opens a new window which shows what the page would look like if the
> > current information was saved. The user can close the window, edit
> > the page some more, and preview it as much as they want.
>
> > The issue is this:
> >> If I use a 'Preview' button, I can send the current data to the controller
> >> and show a page with that data. However, this doesn't let me open the
> >> page in a new window. I don't really want the user to have to use the
> >> back button, as that interrupts the flow of the process.
> >> If I use a Preview link, I can open a new window, but cannot send the data
> >> to the page for display.
>
> > Has anyone done this before, and can you suggest how I might go about
> > it? Would I need to use javascript or ajax? I haven't used Ajax
> > before, although I'm happy enough with javascript.
>
> I've done this. It was for an HTML newsletter (yuk!) and I included a
> preview button which did exactly this. I used JQuery and the form
> plugin to submit the form with AJAX.
>
> $('#newsletter_preview_btn').click(function(e)
> {
> showIndicator('body');
>
> /* allow editor to update itself
> */
> $.wymeditors(0).update();
>
> $(this).parents('form').ajaxSubmit({
> url: '/admin/newsletter/preview',
> error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown)
> {
> alert(textStatus);
> },
> success: function(responseText)
> {
> hideIndicator();
>
> $('#newsletter_modal').jqmShow().find('#newsletter_modal_content').html(responseText);
> }
> });
>
> e.preventDefault();
>
> });
>
> So, here, I was using WYMEditor for the markup and JQModal for the
> pop-up. Not what I'd use today but this was quite a while ago.
>
> public function admin_preview($id = null)
> {
> Configure::write('debug', 0);
> $this->layout = 'email/html/newsletter';
> $this->viewPath = 'elements/email/html';
>
> if (!empty($this->data))
> {
> $this->Newsletter->save($this->data);
> $newsletter = $this->Newsletter->read(null, $id);
> }
> else if (isset($id))
> {
> $newsletter = $this->Newsletter->read(null, $id);
> }
> else
> {
> return null;
> }
>
> $this->set(
> 'newsletter',
> $this->Newsletter->prepareForDelivery($newsletter)
> );
> $this->render('newsletter');
>
> }
>
> The prepareForDelivery() method just did a bunch of str_replace() to
> add inline CSS, etc. I really loathe HTML email.
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