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patch2112
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Simple Content Editor

Post by patch2112 »

Hello All,

I'm trying to find a simple PHP program that allows me to implement a Content Editor for my clients. I've found hundreds of them, but they all are very "powerful" applications that allow you to create new pages and manage users and all of that jazz. They all use templates and such too.

I really just want to create the pages myself and just allow the client to go in and make simple content changes to existing pages (not creating new ones) with a word processor type interface, so they do not have to know any HTML.

I typically use a PHP Include system to take a plain old HTML page and place it on my pages.

Does anyone know of a good solution? Opensource - Freeware is preferred.

Thanks as always!
Philip
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Post by Burrito »

you could pretty easily write your own with a rich text editor.

check out fckeditor for a good free rich text editor.
patch2112
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Thanks!

Post by patch2112 »

That's just exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

PS http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ wasn't too bad either, but not as good for my uses.

Thanks Burrito!
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Post by alex.barylski »

I've designed a CMS which although not free will likely solve all your problems...

It supports many features which are invisble to end users but make it a excellent CMS for small/medium web sites (organic search engine friendly web pages, etc).

There is zero learning curve...for making simple content changes...adding images or links require a user understanding how to make a right-click on the mouse and selecting a URL from a popup menu.

Fine grained user access control so you can prevent them from adding pages (if you like) also you can hide pages, etc...if you know for sure they shouldn't be able to edit them.

Anyways, like I said, it's not free but an excellent alternative to freeware. You'll get a higher quality product (for anything similiar in it's class - it's NOT even close to Mambo in functionality), better support, etc...

IMHO anyways. :)

Check the following link: http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php

It's the standard place to visit when looking for a CMS, all of which are open source...

If you can't find what your looking for, write me an email and i'll show you my CMS and you can decide from there if it's right for you. :)

I should also note my CMS isn't open source in the GPL sense, but by being written in PHP it's open source by nature (as in it's not obfuscated or encrypted, etc).

Being just a week or so from official release I am willing to make the following deal.

If you are a professional designer/developer with a portfolio of atleast 5 sites which I can view (hopefully a web site to display your work as well) I could possibly be pursuaded into offering you a copy for free.

I designed and tested the CMS on a shared server with SAFE mode off (SAFE mode won't work) and it doesn't do much other than make it easy to manage web site content and files, resources, etc...

I am still curious to see how it works on other servers than the ones I rent.

Anyways, if your curious give me a shout and we can further disscuss details :)

Regards,
Alex
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Post by patch2112 »

Hello Hockey,

I sent an email to you, did you receive it? Let me know if not and I'll resend.

Thanks,
Philip
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