I had a bit of scare today, when after editing a page using my newly-installed JCE front-end editor, I received an anxious email from my client, telling me that part of the page had disappeared. The part in question was generated by a php include, and sure enough when I viewed the page in the back end, there was nothing between the {source} {/source} tags.

I reinstated the missing code, saved the page, and opened it again in the front end editor, and once again there was nothing between the {source} {/source} tags.

Looking in this forum, and in the Troubleshooting area, I found the answer - I needed to use rather than

Just posting this note to remind people that if they encounter a similar problem, they'll need to do what I've just been doing, and go through their site changing all the relevant brackets.

This is an editor specific and Joomla setup specific problem. You can also change this behavior (of tag stripping) by going into the global article parameters and checking the blacklist/whitlist settings.

Thanks Peter. That's handy to know for future reference!