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RICH TEXT EDITORS

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Forgive me if I am posting this question in the wrong forum but,
does anyone have any suggestions on rich text editors?

I would like to attach one to my phpmail and found alot of them
when I googled. Can anyone give me any ideas on which of them
are worth while and easy to implement?

insight appreciated
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Tastes may vary. Try them yourself.
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rich text editors

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Your talking to a newbie here.
Not sure what to look for, or what I am looking at.

can you give alittle more information?
For example what do you like about xyz editor over abc editor?

insight is always appreciated
thank you
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TinyMCE, Spaw2 and FCKEditor are often used.
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Re: rich text editors

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krraleigh wrote:Your talking to a newbie here.
Not sure what to look for, or what I am looking at.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=rich+text+editors


surely you're not new enough to have forgotten how to search google before asking...
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Re: rich text editors

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nickvd wrote:surely you're not new enough to have forgotten how to search google before asking...
Apparently you've been here long enough to forget how to read the original post. He used google. He specifically mentioned that he had. He didn't understand the choices.
Can anyone give me any ideas on which of them are worth while and easy to implement?
Which is what a helpful response could have done.

This isn't the first time your responses haven't been very polite or helpful.

At least read the posts where people are saying they have googled, and skip the 'google darnit' responses in those. :)
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Post by nickvd »

If you have a problem with me, take it up via pm, don't insult me in public... I can point you to dozens of posts identical to mine on the google issue...

Though, to satisfy your complaint, I offer this little tid-bit of information that took me less than 5 minutes to find on google...

http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors
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Post by krraleigh »

I appreciate the help, but will these work with phpmail.php.
How would I take the output from one of these editors and plug it into my email?

I am not looking to give my user the ability to update webpages at this juncture,
but rather have them edit their emails with RTE and then post them to my php mail.

Could you give me any idea what the output from one of these editors looks like so that I
can prep it for use in my email?
right now I have this class mail->$body; that captures the input from my textarea.
Now I would like to take the value from the $RTE and do the same thing.

I have alot of questions and I am not sure how to dig for answers?

Kevin Raleigh :?:
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If you are picking any you should probably pick TinyMCE as it supports the widest range of browsers.

And don't get me started on the convoluted mess that is called FCKEditor. It's a study in how not to write something.
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Just from my personal experience, if the editor is going to be used by a trusted user then http://www.innovastudio.com/ is one hell of a product. It does costs somewhere around 60 bucks but I use it all the time at work. Easy to install and works like a charm.
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Charles256 wrote:Just from my personal experience, if the editor is going to be used by a trusted user then http://www.innovastudio.com/ is one hell of a product. It does costs somewhere around 60 bucks but I use it all the time at work. Easy to install and works like a charm.
Can I break down the number of features based on who my user is?
Some you trust more than others

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AKA Panama Jack wrote:If you are picking any you should probably pick TinyMCE as it supports the widest range of browsers.
TinyMCE is ace if you need to handle text only. If you want something that has a module to upload files and images then TinyMCE is a pretty poor choice as it doesn't come with anything to handle stuff on the serverside by default. There are plugins around, but they're not very good and a pain to install.

Spaw2 is the best for a quick and painless install, but it's not got quite as many features as the rest. It does have all the important ones though.
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onion2k wrote:
AKA Panama Jack wrote:If you are picking any you should probably pick TinyMCE as it supports the widest range of browsers.
TinyMCE is ace if you need to handle text only. If you want something that has a module to upload files and images then TinyMCE is a pretty poor choice as it doesn't come with anything to handle stuff on the serverside by default. There are plugins around, but they're not very good and a pain to install.
Actually that hasn't been true for a long time. :)

TinyMCE does offer a file browser but you have to buy it from them.

Or...

You can download TinyFCK. http://p4a.crealabsfoundation.org/tinyfck

TinyFCK is TinyMCE with the FCKEditor file browser added. It works great and is quite painless. We have used it for a long time.
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downloading tinyfck

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Any ideas on what I can do to download tinyfck.
I have a page can't be displayed error
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insight appreciated
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Post by AKA Panama Jack »

Works just fine for me.

BTW, for anyone who has problems with URLs not working. I would suggest changing your DSN lookup to use the one at http://www.opendns.com/ It's free and never seems to have the weird DNS issues some ISP's have lately. They always seem to have the latest and it is damned fast on the lookups. I have Mediacom as my ISP and their DNS lookup took for freaking ever.
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