Editor.js PHP

Server-side implementation sample for the Editor.js. It contains data validation, HTML sanitization and converts output from Editor.js to the Block objects.

Installation

To install lib use composer:

composer require codex-team/editor.js:dev-master

Guide

Add this line at the top of your PHP script

use \EditorJS\EditorJS;

this line allows you to get editors class that has the following method:

getBlocks - return array of sanitized blocks

Basic usage

You can get data from editor and send as param to editor's server validator like

try {
    // Initialize Editor backend and validate structure
    $editor = new EditorJS( $data, $configuration );
    
    // Get sanitized blocks (according to the rules from configuration)
    $blocks = $editor->getBlocks();
    
} catch (\EditorJSException $e) {
    // process exception
}

Editor.js constructor has the following arguments:

$data — JSON string with data from CodeX Editor frontend.

$configuration — JSON string with CodeX Editor tools configuration (see an example in the following paragraph).

Configuration file

You can manually configure validation rules for different types of Editor.js tools (header, paragraph, list, quote and other). You can also extend configuration with new tools.

Sample validation rule set:

{
  "tools": {
    "header": {
      "text": {
        "type": "string",
        "required": true,
        "allowedTags": "b,i,a[href]"
      },
      "level": {
        "type": "int",
        "canBeOnly": [2, 3, 4]
      }
    }
  }
}

Where:

tools — array of supported Editor.js tools.

header — defines header tool settings.

text and level — parameters in header tool structure.

text is a required string, which will be sanitized except b, i and a[href] tags.

level is an optional integer that can be only 0, 1 or 2.

allowedTags param should follow HTMLPurifier format.

There are three common parameters for every block:

type (required) — type of the block

value	description
`string`	field with string value
`int`/`integer`	field with integer value
`bool`/`boolean`	field with boolean value
`array`	field with nested fields

allowedTags (optional) — HTML tags in string that won't be removed

value	default	description
`empty`	yes	all tags will be removed
`*`	no	all tags are allowed

Other values are allowed according to the HTMLPurifier format.

Example:

"paragraph": {
    "text": {
        "type": "string",
        "allowedTags": "i,b,u,a[href]"
    }
}

canBeOnly (optional) — define set of allowed values

Example:

"quote": {
      "text": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "caption": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "alignment": {
        "type": "string",
        "canBeOnly": ["left", "center"]
      }
    }

Short settings syntax

Some syntax sugar has been added.

Tool settings can be a string. It defines tool's type with default settings.

"header": {
  "text": "string",
  "level": "int"
}

It evaluates to:

"header": {
  "text": {
    "type": "string",
    "allowedTags": "",
    "required": true
  },
  "level": {
    "type": "int",
    "allowedTags": "",
    "required": true
  }
}

Tool settings can be an array. It defines a set of allowed values without sanitizing.

"quote": {
  "alignment": ["left", "center"],
  "caption": "string"
}

It evaluates to:

"quote": {
  "alignment": {
    "type": "string",
    "canBeOnly": ["left", "center"]
  },
  "caption": {
      "type": "string",
      "allowedTags": "",
      "required": true
    }
}

Another configuration example: /tests/samples/syntax-sugar.json

Nested tools

Tools can contain nested values. It is possible with the array type.

Let the JSON input be the following:

{
    "blocks": [
        "type": list,
        "data": {
            "items": [
                "first", "second", "third"
            ],
            "style": {
                "background-color": "red",
                "font-color": "black"
            }
        }
    ]
}

We can define validation rules for this input in the config:

"list": {
  "items": {
    "type": "array",
    "data": {
      "-": {
        "type": "string",
        "allowedTags": "i,b,u"
      }
    }
  },
  "style": {
      "type": "array",
      "data": {
        "background-color": {
            "type": "string",
            "canBeOnly": ["red", "blue", "green"]
        },
        "font-color": {
            "type": "string",
            "canBeOnly": ["black", "white"]
        }
      }
  }
}

where data is the container for values of the array and - is the special shortcut for values if the array is sequential.

Another configuration example: /tests/samples/test-config.json

Exceptions

EditorJS class

Exception text	Cause
JSON is empty	EditorJS initiated with empty `$json` argument
Wrong JSON format: `error`	`json_decode` failed during `$json` processing
Input is null	`json_decode` returned null `$data` object
Input array is empty	`$data` is an empty array
Field `blocks` is missing	`$data` doesn't contain 'blocks' key
Blocks is not an array	`$data['blocks']` is not an array
Block must be an Array	one element in `$data['blocks']` is not an array

BlockHandler class

Exception text	Cause
Tool `TOOL_NAME` not found in the configuration	Configuration file doesn't contain TOOL_NAME in `tools{}` dictionary
Not found required param `key`	key tool param exists in configuration but doesn't exist in input data. (Params are always required by default unless `required: false` is set)
Found extra param `key`	Param key exists in input data but doesn't defined in configuration
Option `key` with value `value` has invalid value. Check canBeOnly param.	Parameter must have one of the values from canBeOnly array in tool configuration
Option `key` with value `value` must be TYPE	Param must have type which is defined in tool configuration (string, integer, boolean)
Unhandled type `elementType`	Param type in configuration is invalid

ConfigLoader class

Exception text	Cause
Configuration data is empty	EditorJS initiated with empty `$configuration` argument
Tools not found in configuration	Configuration file doesn't contain `tools` key
Duplicate tool `toolName` in configuration	Configuration file has different tools with the same name

Make Tools

If you connect a new Tool on the frontend-side, then you should create a configuration rule for that Tool to validate it on server-side.

Repository

https://github.com/codex-editor/editorjs-php/

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