Re: [PHP] Web page excerpt editor

On May 5, 2008, at 9:43 AM, tedd wrote:

> At 6:49 PM -0400 5/4/08, Robert Cummings wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 17:27 -0500, Mike Potter wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Paul Scott wrote:
>>>
>> > >  FCKEditor, TinyMCE and a host of others. All JS based, so not  
>> really
>>> >  relevant on a PHP list though
>>>
>> > Whereas, SnippetMaster *is* PHP-based. Sad if it's the only one, I
>>> thought (hoped) there would be more.
>>
>> When you can't find what you want, feel free to pick up you  
>> keyboard and
>> create the solution. Then be sure to share it with everyone else.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob.
>
> To all:
>
> FCKEditor and TinyMCE are impressive in what they do, but they  
> produce a mix of css and html -- that's not good in my book.
>
> SnippetMaster is kind of neat in that it is PHP and uses editable  
> regions.
>
> I've been trying to come up with an alternative -- here's my twist:
>
> http://www.webbytedd.com/a/easy-page-db
>
> Please note the [Edit Mode] link on the top right of the page.
>
> I'm not willing to share the code at this point because I haven't  
> worked out all the bugs, but I'm sure the demo expresses my idea.
>
> My quandary is how much freedom do I give the client in allowing  
> them to use html tags? The client is not going to deliberately try  
> to mess up their own site, but not having well formed html can  
> create problems.
>
> I am open to comments and suggestions.

Hey tedd,

Just as an idea, would it be alot of work to do a "basic" editor, and  
then have an "advanced" button? That way, for the people who don't  
know as much they can just stay in the basic part that lets them  
pretty much type in the info and the editor changes it into HTML and  
advanced basically gives them a blank slate to work with? Just a  
thought..


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