WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

**Chris Hope** · Apr 11 '06, 10:55 PM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

firewood@ironwo rk.com wrote:
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> I am developing a form-based website development system using PHP5,
> and I want to incorporate a secure, reliable, Wysiwyg textarea script
> in place of the standard, unformatable, text-only textarea one gets
> with a <textarea> tag. All I need are basic formatting tools - bold,
> italics, underline, lists, tables.
>
> I've looked into a few already with spotty results:
> SPAW - is buggy with PHP5.
>
> Textarearich - is awkward to configure, and I'm not confident that
> the script is secure or reliable.
>
> jxhtmledit - a java applet with very unclear installation and
> configuration documentation.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good one?[/color]

I use TinyMCE which is available from here:
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

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**firewood@ironwork.com** · Apr 12 '06, 12:15 AM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:41:50 +1200, Chris Hope
<blackhole@elec trictoolbox.com > wrote:
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>firewood@ironw ork.com wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I am developing a form-based website development system using PHP5,
>> and I want to incorporate a secure, reliable, Wysiwyg textarea script
>> in place of the standard, unformatable, text-only textarea one gets
>> with a <textarea> tag. All I need are basic formatting tools - bold,
>> italics, underline, lists, tables.
>>
>> I've looked into a few already with spotty results:
>> SPAW - is buggy with PHP5.
>>
>> Textarearich - is awkward to configure, and I'm not confident that
>> the script is secure or reliable.
>>
>> jxhtmledit - a java applet with very unclear installation and
>> configuration documentation.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a good one?[/color]
>
>I use TinyMCE which is available from here:
>http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/[/color]

Chris,
Thanks for the lead!! I installed TinyMCE in a few minutes, and it is
working better, so far, than anything I have seen. What a relief!

**fletch** · Apr 12 '06, 01:35 PM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

It uses plugins which have various licensing terms, so be sure to check
them out!

**Jon** · Apr 12 '06, 03:35 PM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

We are using a modified version of Kevin Roth's RTE (with built-in preview)
but I've been thinking of switching to TinyMCE after looking at it. Anyone
have experience with both and think one is better than the other?

<firewood@ironw ork.com> wrote in message
news:8sgo32loil dtqa7muqpr87kf3 39mm441u2@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:41:50 +1200, Chris Hope
> <blackhole@elec trictoolbox.com > wrote:
>[color=green]
>>firewood@iron work.com wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I am developing a form-based website development system using PHP5,
>>> and I want to incorporate a secure, reliable, Wysiwyg textarea script
>>> in place of the standard, unformatable, text-only textarea one gets
>>> with a <textarea> tag. All I need are basic formatting tools - bold,
>>> italics, underline, lists, tables.
>>>
>>> I've looked into a few already with spotty results:
>>> SPAW - is buggy with PHP5.
>>>
>>> Textarearich - is awkward to configure, and I'm not confident that
>>> the script is secure or reliable.
>>>
>>> jxhtmledit - a java applet with very unclear installation and
>>> configuration documentation.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a good one?[/color]
>>
>>I use TinyMCE which is available from here:
>>http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/[/color]
>
> Chris,
> Thanks for the lead!! I installed TinyMCE in a few minutes, and it is
> working better, so far, than anything I have seen. What a relief![/color]

**rlee0001** · Apr 12 '06, 04:45 PM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

Jon,

KR/RTE requires javascript to be enabled just to see the input box at
all. If you expect much of your market to be Firefox power users, this
might be a problem. But RTE is friendlier with pop-up blockers.

TinyMCE requires javascript to be enabled in order to use the WYSIWYG
feature (otherwise you get a textarea with HTML source). Actually that
is a really gracefull degrade. Unfortunately several TMCE plug-in
features are IE-only. And many are in-operable with the pop-up blocker
enabled.

Something should be very, very clear going forward: Your site NEEDS to
function with pop-up blockers installed. Why? IE6 and IE7 both include
them. And IE7s popup blocker is quite effective (as much so as
Firefox's). This means that within the next two years, 90% or more of
your users will be running a browser with a built in pop-up blocker.

Test any solution you find very well in many situations. Personally I
find KR/RTE a bit nicer but I am a huge fan of the KISS philosophy.
Right now there are no perfect solutions on the market at all. Which is
really too bad.

-Robert

**Craig Storey** · Apr 12 '06, 05:45 PM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

I recently tested a few different ones and here are my thoughts...

1. xinha: Best. Faster, better default config, simple install.

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2. TinyMCE: Looks good too, but too many pop-ups for me. I like the
image manager. Pasting from Word isn't automatic.

3. FCKeditor: Another good one, but seems prone to problems with
plug-ins. After awhile I made a few work, but others I couldn't
configure properly and not enuogh info.

4. htmlarea: This is an ancester of xhina, has a few drawbacks.

5. widgEditor Too simple, not worth implementing for editing purposes.

Hope this helps.
Craig

firewood@ironwo rk.com wrote:[color=blue]
> I am developing a form-based website development system using PHP5,
> and I want to incorporate a secure, reliable, Wysiwyg textarea script
> in place of the standard, unformatable, text-only textarea one gets
> with a <textarea> tag. All I need are basic formatting tools - bold,
> italics, underline, lists, tables.
>
> I've looked into a few already with spotty results:
> SPAW - is buggy with PHP5.
>
> Textarearich - is awkward to configure, and I'm not confident that
> the script is secure or reliable.
>
> jxhtmledit - a java applet with very unclear installation and
> configuration documentation.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good one?[/color]

**fletch** · Apr 12 '06, 07:05 PM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

> 2. TinyMCE: Looks good too, but too many pop-ups for me. I like the[color=blue]
> image manager. Pasting from Word isn't automatic.[/color]

There are several image managers now I think.
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> 3. FCKeditor: Another good one, but seems prone to problems with
> plug-ins. After awhile I made a few work, but others I couldn't
> configure properly and not enuogh info.[/color]

We switched from this to TinyMCE. It was too buggy. We got too many
support requests from users.

**Craig Storey** · Apr 13 '06, 02:35 PM

Re: WYSIWYG textarea script - anyone know a good one?

fletch,

thanks for the notes. Any experience with xhina to share? Heard anything?

Craig

fletch wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>>2. TinyMCE: Looks good too, but too many pop-ups for me. I like the
>>image manager. Pasting from Word isn't automatic.[/color]
>
>
> There are several image managers now I think.
>
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>>3. FCKeditor: Another good one, but seems prone to problems with
>>plug-ins. After awhile I made a few work, but others I couldn't
>>configure properly and not enuogh info.[/color]
>
>
> We switched from this to TinyMCE. It was too buggy. We got too many
> support requests from users.
>[/color]

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