CMS Guidance needed
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:34 pm
I apologize in advance if this question is too basic or if I am posting in the wrong forum.
I am looking to implement a very basic CMS for a website that I am developing. Right now I am thinking of coding it myself (I am new to PHP/MySQL, but have been very successful thus far in picking it up).
I am fairly certain that I can do the following: user authentication, display existing articles in a text box to be edited, and then submit them back to the database to become live.
I do not need commenting features, approval processes, headlines, etc. etc. I simply need customers to be able to load up a paragraph of text, make changes, and submit them.
HOWEVER, here are the three features that I WOULD like to add to my simple CMS which I do not think are too easy to do.
- Integrate a spell checker
- Display the text without style codes (strong, etc.) so that the client does not see the html mark-up (this part I think I can do) but also to ALLOW the client to do simple formating like making text bold without markup (like a MS Word "B" button). Basically, I am looking for a basic WYSIWYG atmosphere.
SO HERE'S MY QUESTION:
Should I stick with the self-made CMS (if so, are there any resources available to help me integrate a spell checker and pseudo-WYSIWYG environment, OR is there an existing CMS package (free or public) that would do what I need without overcomplicating the situation. I absolutely must stay with my existing layout (only a center "content" column will be accessible to this CMS) and everything must stay PHP/MYSQL (or else one of those WYSIWYG HTML cms options would have worked).
Speaking of which... Interspire's WebEditPlatnium is the perfect example what I would want (works within existing site, no extras that aren't needed, just a WYSIWIG editor with spellchecker) but it only edits raw HTML, not MYSQL databases.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I am looking to implement a very basic CMS for a website that I am developing. Right now I am thinking of coding it myself (I am new to PHP/MySQL, but have been very successful thus far in picking it up).
I am fairly certain that I can do the following: user authentication, display existing articles in a text box to be edited, and then submit them back to the database to become live.
I do not need commenting features, approval processes, headlines, etc. etc. I simply need customers to be able to load up a paragraph of text, make changes, and submit them.
HOWEVER, here are the three features that I WOULD like to add to my simple CMS which I do not think are too easy to do.
- Integrate a spell checker
- Display the text without style codes (strong, etc.) so that the client does not see the html mark-up (this part I think I can do) but also to ALLOW the client to do simple formating like making text bold without markup (like a MS Word "B" button). Basically, I am looking for a basic WYSIWYG atmosphere.
SO HERE'S MY QUESTION:
Should I stick with the self-made CMS (if so, are there any resources available to help me integrate a spell checker and pseudo-WYSIWYG environment, OR is there an existing CMS package (free or public) that would do what I need without overcomplicating the situation. I absolutely must stay with my existing layout (only a center "content" column will be accessible to this CMS) and everything must stay PHP/MYSQL (or else one of those WYSIWYG HTML cms options would have worked).
Speaking of which... Interspire's WebEditPlatnium is the perfect example what I would want (works within existing site, no extras that aren't needed, just a WYSIWIG editor with spellchecker) but it only edits raw HTML, not MYSQL databases.
Thanks in advance for any advice.