What is the best way for CMS?

olaf

Hallo,

I created already a lot of dynamic webpages. If the style or data amount is still the same it is just easy to handle...

In my next project i want to handle the layout with some variables, some div tages (without tables) and of course CSS. Changing double linebreaks into paragraphs should be possible. I think the abstraction of different header-rows should be difficult. I there someone who know a class that can handle this kind of layout's?

Example:

inside a textarea (like here) the user can handle his input with some styles like bold or italic. Before saving i want to give some extra information that the script can use at the time at parsing into the div-container's.

Maybe it should be done on an other way... Where do i have to look?

Thanks for helping.

harlowhair

I've written some fairly involved CMS' - I found the best way is to use DHTML in IE. You can create a textarea that allows the user to fully format the text (paragraphs, indents, bold, Italic etc.) and then store the HTML output in your database. check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28000441

olaf

Hallo,

thanks for the reply...

in the meantime i checked a lot of classes and scripts which should be handle this things.

Nearby all of them work like this:

Using javascript to define the customized tags inside a textarea.

and 2. replace these tags with html style while parsing with php.

So far...
is there a simple way to show bold or italic tekst inside a textarea in place of using this?
[.B]bold text[./B] (I placed the dots for demonstration)

About the msdn link i don't know what i have to search for.