PHP Forum

**konetch** · 12:43 AM

I need a rich text editor for my website. I have a very basic form right now, but isn't very useful.

I was wondering if anybody could suggest a form for me that would use a rich text editor. I'm not very experienced with PHP and tried using the fckeditor. I couldn't figure it out. This is the code I want to use

Code:

<?php include_once("fckeditor/fckeditor.php") ; ?> 
<html> 
<head>   
<title>FCKeditor - Sample</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 
</head> 
<body>   
<form action="" method="post" target="_blank"> 
<?php $oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('FCKeditor1') ; $oFCKeditor->BasePath = '/fckeditor/' ; $oFCKeditor->Value = '<p>This is some <strong>sample text</strong>. You are using <a href="http://www.fckeditor.net/">FCKeditor</a>.</p>' ; $oFCKeditor->Create() ; ?>     
<br>     
<input type="submit" value="Submit">   
</form> 
</body> 
</html>

As I said before I know very little PHP, so please excuse the stupid questions I may have.

Thanks

-Alex Konetchy

**NullPointer** · 04-03-2009, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by avijit

Why you are using text pad , I don't think in now days you dont need to use fck editor,For better coding standard you can use eclipse.I think that can solve your problem.You may try dream weaver also but that is not very good.

I don't think he was referring to the program he is using to write the code, but rather an in browser text editor.

@konetch
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking. What exactly couldn't you figure out?

Are you getting an error?

**konetch** · 03:21 PM

Currently I have a basic form on my site. You can see it at http://www.konetchreport.com/submit.php . I want to change this form to something like this...
http://www.konetchreport.com/fckedit...p/sample01.php

On my current basic form I'm using a code like this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"    "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact Form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"    content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<?php   if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] != 'POST'){      $me = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>   
<form name="form1" method="post"         action="<?php echo $me;?>">      
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">         
<tr>            
Name:<br>      
<input type="text" name="Name">        
<br><br>  
Subject<br>        
<input type="text" name="Subject">        
<br><br>           
Message:<br>          
<textarea name="MsgBody"></textarea>       
<br><br><br>           
<br>           
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit"  value="Send">
</form>
<?php   
} else {      
error_reporting(0);      
$recipient = 'me@myaddress.com';      
$subject = stripslashes($_POST['Subject']);      
$from = stripslashes($_POST['Name']);      
$msg = "Message from: $from\n\n".stripslashes($_POST['MsgBody']);      
             if (mail($recipient, $subject, $msg))         
             echo nl2br("<b>Message Sent:</b>         
To: $recipient         
Subject: $subject         
Message:         $msg");      
              else         
              echo "Message failed to send";}?>
</body>
</html>

How would I change this code to include the fckeditor.I hope this clarifys it. Thanks

-Alex Konetchy

**Jennysmithuk** · 04-04-2009, 01:55 AM

I think you should try dreamweaver, it is good due to many of it's unique features like Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG mode can hide the HTML code details of pages from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites.Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in locally-installed web browsers. It also has site management tools, such as FTP/SFTP and WebDAV file transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms and regular expressions across the entire site, and a templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.

**NullPointer** · 04-04-2009, 03:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jennysmithuk

I think you should try dreamweaver, it is good due to many of it's unique features like Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG mode can hide the HTML code details of pages from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites.Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in locally-installed web browsers. It also has site management tools, such as FTP/SFTP and WebDAV file transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms and regular expressions across the entire site, and a templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.

For the second time, he is not referring to a text editor or IDE.

@konetch
Looking at the documentation (http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_...ntegration/PHP) it appears that all you should need to do is replace your textarea code with the fckeditor code:

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"    "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Contact Form</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"    content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

</head>

<body>

<?php   if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] != 'POST'){      $me = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>   

<form name="form1" method="post"         action="<?php echo $me;?>">      

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">         

<tr>            

Name:<br>      

<input type="text" name="Name">        

<br><br>  

Subject<br>        

<input type="text" name="Subject">        

<br><br>           

Message:<br>          

<?php

require_once("fckeditor/fckeditor.php") ;

$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('MsgBody') ;

$oFCKeditor->BasePath = '/fckeditor/' ;

$oFCKeditor->Value = '' ;

$oFCKeditor->Create() ;

?> 

<br><br><br>           

<br>           

<td><input type="submit" name="Submit"  value="Send">

</form>

<?php   

} else {      

error_reporting(0);      

$recipient = 'me@myaddress.com';      

$subject = stripslashes($_POST['Subject']);      

$from = stripslashes($_POST['Name']);      

$msg = "Message from: $from\n\n".stripslashes($_POST['MsgBody']);      

             if (mail($recipient, $subject, $msg))         

             echo nl2br("<b>Message Sent:</b>         

To: $recipient         

Subject: $subject         

Message:         $msg");      

              else         

              echo "Message failed to send";}?>

</body>

</html>

**konetch** · 04-04-2009, 10:27 AM

Alright thanks, the form works now.

-Alex Konetchy