Joomla Component not saving data - joomla

Question

I have a component that used to work (Without setting HTML tags to the description) and now after trying to get the HTML formatting to work it won't save.
com_lot\views\lot\tmpl\form.php:
<?php defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
$document =& JFactory::getDocument();
$document->addScript('includes/js/joomla.javascript.js');
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR .DS. 'components' .DS. 'com_jce' .DS. 'helpers' .DS. 'browser.php');
?>
<form action="index.php" method="post" name="adminForm" id="adminForm">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function submitbutton(pressbutton) {
var form = document.adminForm;
if (pressbutton == 'cancel') {
submitform( pressbutton );
return;
}
<?php
$editor =& JFactory::getEditor();
echo $editor->save( 'description' );
?>
submitform(pressbutton);
}
</script>
...
<tr>
<td width="100" align="right" class="key">
<label for="description">
<?php echo JText::_( 'Description' ); ?>:
</label>
</td>
<td>
<?php
$editor =& JFactory::getEditor();
echo $editor->display('description', $this->lotdata->description, '550', '400', '60', '20', false);
?>
</td>
</tr>
...
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_lot" />
<input type="hidden" name="lotid" value="<?php echo $this->lotdata->lotid; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="controller" value="lot" />
<?php echo JHTML::_( 'form.token' ); ?>
<button type="button" onclick="submitbutton('save')"><?php echo JText::_('Save') ?></button>
<button type="button" onclick="submitbutton('cancel')"><?php echo JText::_('Cancel') ?></button>
</form>
com_lot\models\lot.php:
function store($data)
{
// get the table
$row =& $this->getTable();
// Bind the form fields to the hello table
if (!$row->bind($data)) {
$this->setError($this->_db->getErrorMsg());
return false;
}
// Make sure the hello record is valid
if (!$row->check()) {
$this->setError($this->_db->getErrorMsg());
return false;
}
// Store the web link table to the database
if (!$row->store()) {
$this->setError( $row->getErrorMsg() );
return false;
}
return true;
}
function save()
{
// Check for request forgeries
JRequest::checkToken() or jexit( 'Invalid Token' );
// get the model
$model =& $this->getModel();
//get data from request
$post = JRequest::get('post');
$post['description'] = JRequest::getVar('description', '', 'post', 'string', JREQUEST_ALLOWRAW);
// let the model save it
if ($model->store($post)) {
$message = JText::_('Success');
} else {
$message = JText::_('Error while saving');
$message .= ' ['.$model->getError().'] ';
}
$this->setRedirect('index.php?option=com_lot', $message);
}
Any help appreciated.
Edit: I have seen stuff about JForms and having XML files... is this applicable? I haven't found anywhere that says what they're used for, just what types there are...

Answer 1

I found the problem (once I'd cleaned up the code a bit) was that in the article I was following (http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_use_the_editor_in_a_component) missed changing store() to store($data).
Because the pages redirect etc it doesn't die and error out. Thanks to for Jan for your help.