text editor !

[hassank1]

hi I am working on a system (like a forum)

however .. I was wondering can I find an already made (text editor) like the one I am currently wrting on with the above buttons (bold , italic etc...) and in what language they usually program it ?

[davey_b_]

I found this one to be decent but you might want to look around...

http://www.openwebware.com/products/openwysiwyg/

 

Hope it helps.

[dptr1988]

If you want a full blown WYSIWYG editor, I can reccomend 'http://www.fckeditor.net/' and 'http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/'.

 

Text editors like the ones on these forums are simple textareas with JavaScript buttons that will insert bbcode.

[hassank1]

thx for both of u ..

 

well the problem that if I used an advanced text editor .. ( that doesn't use bbcode ) .. it would be difficult to transfer the contents of the textbox into bbcode ... right ?

 

btw I've a function bbcode2html($text) ... so would it be easy to convert if I used it ?

[dptr1988]

And advanced editor like fckeditor will return HTML contents, so there is no need to use bbcode.  ( IE. HTML is greater then BBCode)

 

If you want to use BBCode use a simple textare like in these forums.

[hassank1]

And advanced editor like fckeditor will return HTML contents, so there is no need to use bbcode.  ( IE. HTML is greater then BBCode)

 

If you want to use BBCode use a simple textare like in these forums.

 

yes I totally agree .. but what if user inject scripts tags into the text editor ex : " <script> //an unallowed script code </script> ... etc...

[dptr1988]

When you go to process that text with PHP, you strip out or disable all HTML tags. Then tag the approved BBCode tags and convert them to HTML.

 

Also I want to double check that you understand that JavaScript or any script that can be put between <script></script> tags can not be run on your server and only can cause trouble on the clients web browser when it is redisplayed by the PHP script.