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Upchurch
11th June 2009, 09:11 AM
I'm newish to PHP and I need a good enough text editor for an app. Something not unlike this board's editor. Anyone have a good (and preferably free) suggestion?

moopet
11th June 2009, 02:05 PM
You mean a rich text editor for text fields in a web page, right, and not an editor for coding PHP in (since WYSIWYG PHP editing makes no sense)?
Try fckeditor (http://fckeditor.net), which is a drop-in piece of Javascript which will convert any textareas you specify into that sort of editing box.
You can see a demo of it running here: http://www.fckeditor.net/demo

megaresp
11th June 2009, 02:44 PM
I'm newish to PHP and I need a good enough text editor for an app. Something not unlike this board's editor. Anyone have a good (and preferably free) suggestion?
Here's an alternative to FCKeditor: TinyMCE (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/).

I've used both. I prefer TinyMCE because it's easier to match CSS with the destination page, and provide different configs (i.e. which buttons appear) for instances of the editor within the same page.

Ducky
11th June 2009, 04:36 PM
I like Komodo Edit:

http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/

Can handle most languages well enough for the casual user. Moopet is right, though, you don't wysiwyg php. you wysiwyg rich text or html.

Cleon
11th June 2009, 06:47 PM
Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is a pretty decent IDE. Although developed for Java, there's a PHP plugin that works pretty well.

Upchurch
11th June 2009, 07:32 PM
You mean a rich text editor for text fields in a web page, right, and not an editor for coding PHP in (since WYSIWYG PHP editing makes no sense)?
Try fckeditor (http://fckeditor.net), which is a drop-in piece of Javascript which will convert any textareas you specify into that sort of editing box.
You can see a demo of it running here: http://www.fckeditor.net/demo

Correct and perfect. Thank you kindly.

Wowbagger
12th June 2009, 11:53 AM
(Oops! Nevermind, the thing I offered was only for .NET. Sorry. You can delete this post, if you want.)