[AndrewD]

I've spent today tearing my hair out in updating the wysiwig editor from vb3.8 to v4.0 in a product I handle. Eventually, I tried reproducing the problem using the code suggested here, and the same problem arose. Basically, when in full WYSIWIG mode, the text entered into the message box is not being returned to the server, unless one first refreshes the page. In standard mode (obtained either by using the control switch in the editor, or by setting the appropriate vb options), everything works fine. This means that the problem cropped up with IE and Firefox but not with Google Chrome or Safari, which always use the standard editor.

For some reason, though, this problem does not seem to crop up in, e.g., the standard VB editpost code.

Possibilities are that I've made a mistake (quite possible...), or there's a bug in vb4.0 (I'm testing with RC2), or there's a switch/file that we're overlooking.

The attached files are, as far as I can tell, a straight copy of the material posted at the start of this article, within a script that simply keeps re-presenting the form along with a record of the message entered by the user the previous time round. I'd be very grateful if someone can independently test this, and let me know if I'm going crazy or not.

The two files are a php script to be loaded into the forum directory, and a template.