YUI Library Examples: Rich Text Editor (beta): Flickr Image Search

Setting up the Editor's HTML

Setting up the Editor's HTML is done by creating a textarea control on the page.

Setting up the Editor's Javascript

Once the textarea is on the page, then initialize the Editor like this:

Adding and Controlling the New Button

Here we subscribe to the toolbarLoaded Custom Event and create the new Button (flickr). After adding it to the group called insertitem, we subscribe to it's flickrClick Custom Event.

Inside this Custom Event, we set the STOP_EXEC_COMMAND var to true, which will keep the Editor from trying to run execCommand('flickr', '')

Then we call gutter.toggle() which will either hide or show our custom panel.

Styling the New Button

There are 2 important states to style a button in the toolbar.

First is the default state, that can be accessed via this CSS rule: .yui-toolbar-container .yui-toolbar-flickr span.yui-toolbar-icon

Second is the selected state, that can be accessed via this CSS rule: .yui-toolbar-container .yui-toolbar-flickr-selected span.yui-toolbar-icon

.yui-toolbar-container is the class applied to the top-most container of the toolbar.

.yui-toolbar-icon is an extra SPAN injected into the button for spriting an image.

.yui-toolbar-VALUE is a dynamic class added to the button based on the value passed into the button's config. It is used for specific styling of a button that may appear in several places on the page.

The Style Rules to Create the Calendar Button in This Example

The Gutter Panel Full Javascript Source

The gutter in this example is not part of the Editor, but could easily be modified to do other things.

(function() {
    //Some private vars
    var Dom = YAHOO.util.Dom,
        Event = YAHOO.util.Event;

YAHOO.gutter = function() {
        return {
            //The current status of the gutter (true is open)
            status: false,
            //Placeholder for the Overlay control
            gutter: null,
            /*
            * This method will create the Overlay and
            * attach some animations to the show and hide events
            */
            createGutter: function() {
                //Creating the Overlay
                this.gutter = new YAHOO.widget.Overlay('gutter1', {
                    height: '425px',
                    width: '300px',
                    //Setting it the context of the Editor's container
                    context: [
                        myEditor.get('element'),
                        'tl',
                        'tr'
                    ],
                    //Set the position
                    position: 'absolute',
                    //Hide by default
                    visible: false
                });
                /*
                * The hideEvent will control the status of the toolbar button as well
                * as fire the animation off to close the gutter
                */
                this.gutter.hideEvent.subscribe(function() {
                    //Deselect the flickr button in the toolbar
                    myEditor.toolbar.deselectButton(myEditor.toolbar.getButtonByValue('flickr'));
                    Dom.setStyle('gutter1', 'visibility', 'visible');                
                    var anim = new YAHOO.util.Anim('gutter1', {
                        width: {
                            from: 300,
                            to: 0
                        },
                        opacity: {
                            from: 1,
                            to: 0
                        }
                    }, 1);
                    //When the animation is done, hide the element.
                    anim.onComplete.subscribe(function() {  
                        Dom.setStyle('gutter1', 'visibility', 'hidden');
                    });
                    //Animate it
                    anim.animate();
                }, this, true);
                /*
                * The showEvent will control the status of the toolbar button as well
                * as fire the animation off to open the gutter
                */
                this.gutter.showEvent.subscribe(function() {
                    //Select the flickr button in the toolbar
                    myEditor.toolbar.selectButton(myEditor.toolbar.getButtonByValue('flickr'));
                    //Set the context of the panel (in case it was lost in the animation)
                    this.gutter.cfg.setProperty('context',[
                        myEditor.get('element'),
                        'tl',
                        'tr'
                    ]);
                    //Set the width to 0 pixels.
                    Dom.setStyle(this.gutter.element, 'width', '0px');
                    var anim = new YAHOO.util.Anim('gutter1', {
                        width: {
                            from: 0,
                            to: 300
                        },
                        opacity: {
                            from: 0,
                            to: 1
                        }
                    }, 1);
                    //Animate it
                    anim.animate();
                }, this, true);

Setting Up the Autocomplete Control

First we wait until flickr_search is available on the page. Then we set up a click handler on flickr_results to see if the user clicked an image.

If an image is clicked, we will call myEditor.execCommand('insertimage', IMG) to insert the image into the Editor.

This Autocomplete control uses a DataSource that points to Flickr Web Services; Flickr returns XML data via a simple PHP proxy. In order to return valid data from the Flickr application, scriptQueryParameter has been customized to be tags, and scriptQueryAppend is used to pass in additional required arguments. The cache has been disabled so that each query is forced to make a trip to the live application.

This instance of AutoComplete defines a robust custom formatResult function that parses result data into custom HTML markup that displays an actual image from the Flickr server. Automatic highlighting of the first result item in the container has been disabled by setting autoHighlight to false.

YAHOO.util.Event.onAvailable('flickr_search', function() {
    YAHOO.util.Event.on('flickr_results', 'click', function(ev) {
        var tar = YAHOO.util.Event.getTarget(ev);
        if (tar.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'img') {
            if (tar.getAttribute('fullimage', 2)) {
                var img = tar.getAttribute('fullimage', 2);
                this.toolbar.fireEvent('flickrClick', { type: 'flickrClick', img: img });
            }
        }
    });
    oACDS = new YAHOO.widget.DS_XHR("assets/flickr_proxy.php",
        ["photo", "title", "id", "owner", "secret", "server"]);
    oACDS.scriptQueryParam = "tags";
    oACDS.responseType = YAHOO.widget.DS_XHR.TYPE_XML;
    oACDS.maxCacheEntries = 0;
    oACDS.scriptQueryAppend = "method=flickr.photos.search";

// Instantiate AutoComplete
    oAutoComp = new YAHOO.widget.AutoComplete('flickr_search','flickr_results', oACDS);
    oAutoComp.autoHighlight = false;
    oAutoComp.alwaysShowContainer = true;     
    oAutoComp.formatResult = function(oResultItem, sQuery) {
        // This was defined by the schema array of the data source
        var sTitle = oResultItem[0];
        var sId = oResultItem[1];
        var sOwner = oResultItem[2];
        var sSecret = oResultItem[3];
        var sServer = oResultItem[4];
        var urlPart = 'http:/'+'/static.flickr.com/' + sServer + '/' + sId + '_' + sSecret;
        var sUrl = urlPart + '_s.jpg';
        var lUrl = urlPart + '_m.jpg';
        var sMarkup = '<img src="' + sUrl + '" fullimage="' + lUrl +
            '" class="yui-ac-flickrImg" alt="Click to add this image to the editor"><br>';
        return (sMarkup);
    };
});

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