Not sure what part of this forum this would be best in but her will do.

I'm building a Site in PHP and wanted to allow the Admin to change the content of each page, what i was after was some sort of simple text editor plugin? also what is the best way to store the html, would you just store it in the database?

tommyflint

It depends on what you are looking at doing, if you want to be able to include the files for each page, then the Admin could use something like dreamweaver (If they don't know HTML) which has a built in FTP client. If they want to edit it online then a simple text editor would be fine.

Whether or not you wan tto keep the HTML in a database depends on what type of content it is. If it is just posts, then keep use the database to hold the posts and an HTML template in a file for displaying. If it is a web based editor, you could do either. It isn't that hard to make a CMS. If it is like dreamweaver the files would be easiest to do.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers for that Betawar

Yeah Currently I have a kind of CMS where they can change text which is stored in the database but i wanted to allow them to be able to style the text, add tables etc.. on the actual website, is there any simple online text editors you recommend


tommyflint

TinyMCE is one of the more popular WYSIWYG editors out there, but the idea with text editors in general (as has already been said) is that they work with a database to store the content.

If you're using static files (in PHP I'll assume), then Dreamweaver is probably your best bet... but most clients I've worked with don't want the hassle of learning something like FTP. The PHP and HTML code may also scare some clients. Lastly, do you really want to give anyone but a web developer access to the code via FTP? Unless you keep amazing backups, you're going to want to kill yourself when they accidentally screw up the code and upload changes to the server.

The bottom line is that you're trying to get CMS functionality, and the best way to implement that is via a database.

Since you're already using PHP, you might check to see if something like Joomla is an option for your situation. It solves the CMS problem for you... but you'll need to build/edit a template for the site to fit your existing design.

Cheers arthurakay.

I have already got a database that i'm using in the site already, so i guess ill give TinyMCE a go, i have used Joomla before and done a little bit of template design for it but it is just a little bulky for the site i'm currently doing

tommyflint

This post has been edited by tommyflint: 16 Jun, 2009 - 12:14 PM