PHP-able WYSIWYG editor?

sid666

ok... heres my problem...

mi made a page for a friend -> http://mpb.stargraphx.com - and it is entirely written in php. so he wants to be able to edit it himself though. the problem is that he has got not much clue about html and of course neither about php.

he is used to using adobe golive to edit the page - well - this isnt quite that easy with php files as you know...

so i wanted to ask if anyone of you uys knows a WYSIWYG editor that would be appropriate for him to edit the pages himself??? i never really heard of anything like that...

rock on - sid

Anon

The problem with that is that there aren't really "pages" per say in PHP. PHP is a language of logic that may or may not generate pieces of HTML based on circumstances at the time the user is using the site.

What I do is use something as simple as MS-Word or FrontPage to build HTML templates for my web pages, with "holes" (so to speak) for the dynamic data my PHP generates on the fly.

So, those templates (and some snippets) are static HTML that can be edited with a simple GUI editor, but the logic behind them cannot be edited by a non programmer.

Hope this helps.

sid666

ok... thanks... thats what i used to do too... just - it doesnt really helßp my friend who doesnt really know anything about html... he just knows how to use wysiwyg editors... if i did it like that he would still need me to put his altered html code back into the php files - then he might as well just tell me what he would like to have changed...

thanks anyway though!... does anyone else have any ideasß

Anon

It might not help your immediate issue with existing code, but for new stuff you might want to have a look at using FastTemplate - there's a tutorial on here and you can get it from here: http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/

Using such templates doesn't, in my experience, make it a complete doddle - the web designer, especially using a WYSIWYG development tool, has to imagine very much what the final compposite page will look like, but it does help to separate the PHP successfully.

Anon

I have always used Netobjects Fusion v4.01 for the graphical and page layout. Then you can insert HTML into any table, cell or text box very easily. This would allow someone to easily 'design' the site, but you will still need to edit the PHP code. I usually have data dynamically inserted from a MySQL database. The end user could easily insert and modify data in the database and then it dynamically displays on the web site. If you use a database, chances are the PHP code would hardly ever need changing in the WYSIWYG editor, like Netobjects Fusion.

narch31

Look into MSHTML. If your friend is using IE 5.0+, you can embed a HTML editor right into a web page. Look at some of the docs here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnmshtml/html/createwp.asp

Anon

I use this for editing php code
http://www.phpide.de/
It has help files you have to down load and link to the application. It is not a total WYSIWYG but it is on its way to being one. It does have bugs and can crash once and awhile but for the newbie it works well as i am a php newbie and learned a great deall from this application.