README

Redactor editor for Yii 2.x

This is a wrapper for the excellent Imperavi Redactor 'What-you-see-is-what-you-get' editor for the Yii 2.0 PHP Framework. It automatically loads any Redactor plugin needed.

A demonstration of yii2-wysiwyg is here.

Installation

The preferred way to install yii2-wysiwyg is through Composer. Either add the following to the require section of your composer.json file:

"sjaakp/yii2-wysiwyg": "*"

Or run:

composer require sjaakp/yii2-wysiwyg "*"

You can manually install yii2-wysiwyg by downloading the source in ZIP-format.

Redactor files

Redactor is proprietry software and is not available via Composer. You have to download it manually.

Yii2-wysiwyg assumes that the Redactor files (that is, the complete contents of the 'redactor' directory in the ZIP-file you get from Imperavi) live in '@app/redactor'. You can set another source path by setting parameter 'redactor' in the application configuration file, usually called web.php or main.php in the config directory, like so:

$params = [
    'adminEmail' => ...,
    'redactor' => <path to Redactor files, or alias>
];

$config = [
    // ...
    'params' => $params,
    // ...
]

The path can and will most likely be set as an alias.

Using Wysiwyg

Wysiwyg is just an ordinary Yii 2 InputWidget. In a form, it can be used like this:

<?php
    use sjaakp\wysiwyg\Wysiwyg;
?>

<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin([
    // ... form options ...
]); ?>

    ... other fields ...
    
    <?= $form->field($model, 'story')->widget(Wysiwyg::class, [
        // ... Wysiwyg options ...
    ]) ?>
    
    ... more fields ...

<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>

Like any InputWidget, Wysiwyg can also be used outside a form. In that case, it should be associated with a name and a value:

<?php
    use sjaakp\wysiwyg\Wysiwyg;
?>

<?= Wysiwyg::widget([
    'name' => 'myWysiwyg',
    'value' => 'Initial text...',
    // ... other options ...
]) ?>

Options

Wysiwyg has al the properties of an InputWidget, plus the following:

• redactorOptions array the options for the Imperavi Redactor.Refer to the Imperavi Web page for possible options. There are lots of them!
• includeCss bool whether CSS files should be registered. Set this to false in case you include the CSS in the sites main file.