Recommended wysiwyg editors

corblimey

For most of the sites I develop, my clients like to use a wysiwyg editor to enter HTML, etc. Sometimes I can get away with just a textarea, but the times they are a-changing. I've started using SPAW (www.solmetra.com) and found it a bear to install and move but very nice when I could finally get it working. Yesterday, when looking for something else, I stumbled upon htmlArea which looks good to me too (although it only works in IE5 - I could only offer it as an option)

Can anyone recommend me some good online wysiwyg editors that can be integrated into php with little fuss and are hopefully free or cheap?

The Corinthian

Wrong board for this thread. Nothing to do with programming, more a Webmaster issue.

monosharp

Read this somewhere, can't remember where.

A guy got a new development job and was given a Programming job to do (C++). A few weeks later the boss asked him was he near completion, he told him it was all finished, he was just debugging.

The boss said to him "I don't know whats wrong with you new programmers, you don't seem to know what your doing, I program in Frontpage all the time and i never have to debug anything. If you were a better programmer you wouldn't have to debug either."

[CrimsonGhost]

Take a look at tinyMCE. Very very nice to use. Can go from basic text area which just allow bold, underline, italic to be added right up to it looking like a version of MSWord embedded in your page.

Good luck with the programming.

Evil Phil

Corblimey, do you want me to move this over to webmaster/flash as TC suggested? You'll probably get a much better response over there.

corblimey

Evil Phil wrote:

Corblimey, do you want me to move this over to webmaster/flash as TC suggested? You'll probably get a much better response over there.

Thanks, Phil

cgarvey

http://www.fckeditor.net/ is another (found it better than some of the others including htmlArea and TinyMCE.. but YMMV, so best to try a few of them yourself)

democrates

cgarvey wrote:

http://www.fckeditor.net/ is another (found it better than some of the others including htmlArea and TinyMCE.. but YMMV, so best to try a few of them yourself)

Not to mention TinyFCK which is tinymce with the fck file editor bolted in, sweet.

DJB

I've used both TinyMCE and FCKEditor. Both are pretty good. I prefer TinyMCE myself. I just like the addons for it like the xhtml cleanup and stuff. I hate giving clients access to a WYSIWYG though... they tend to go mad with the font colours and sizes so I avoid when possible. However, you can put some nice controls in with TinyMCE to stop them doing mad things and messing up a perfectly good website.

Cheers for the link to TinyFCK... I'll be using that in the future now!

Rgds,

Dave