Getting Error “Call to undefined method Joomla\CMS\Editor\Editor::getContent”

Question

I am upgrading one of my component to support Joomla 4 and I am getting this error in webpage

Call to undefined method Joomla\CMS\Editor\Editor::getContent

The code that throws this error is in views->tmpl->edit.php file:

var datdescription = <?php echo $this->editor->getContent( 'datdescription' ); ?>

When I checked Joomla Site for backward compatibility I could not find any solution. But when I checked this link https://api.joomla.org/cms-3/deprecated.html and searched for getContent I found this:

\Joomla\CMS\Editor\Editor::getContent()

deprecated Use Joomla.editors API, see core.js

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Answer 1

As it is explained in core.js: instead of using getContent() method you should use:

• To get the current editor value:

Joomla.editors.instances['jform_articletext'].getValue();

Where jform_articletext means the textarea id and you have to change that value if your textarea id is something else. So in your case it could be for example:

let datdescription = Joomla.editors.instances['datdescription'].getValue();