WYSIWYG Website Editor? (Web Version)

clenard · 10-11-2005, 04:02 AM

Hey everyone -- I'm back again and I have a question...

I'm creating a "user Site Builder" that basically uses PHP/MySQL & Smarty... the user enters info into the form, chooses a design (smarty hosts the template designs) and clicks Submit... once the Submit button is clicked -- the "Creator system" sends an email to the user with their username and password... right? so, here we go...

the user can login to the "system" with their username and password and I'd like for them to be able to edit their site via a WYSIWYG Web Editor... they should be able to change ANYTHING about the site, including design if needed -- but by using MYSQL & Smarty to grab their template choice and populate the template from the MySQL info -- is this possible? I haven't gotten that far yet and I'm not real sure about how Smarty works -- in details anyway...

Any info would be great! Thanks :)

jaswinder_rana · 10-11-2005, 01:29 PM

a great system would it be indeed, if it comes in reality. following ar esome suggestions, and i am writing them as a process
1) User logs in and edit a template.
2) Template has some special things, and they can enter their own, like {TITLE}, {BODY}, {LOGO}, and so on
3) then through 2 text boxes they enter key value pair, which is stored in database
4) key value pair in our example would be "{TITLE} (key)" and "Here is the title" (value)[/b]
5) User save the template.
6) for their site part, these key value pairs are retrived from database, and then anything matching key in the template is replaced by value, using Smarty.
7) If user is missing something, its their fault, as they are responsible for changing the template and entering all key value pairs.

So, that is what came in my mind right away. their can be more solutions, and if i could thin kof anything better, i'l post again.

hope this helps

clenard · 10-11-2005, 07:32 PM

Yeah that helps me Jas, thanks!

I was thinking of doing away with the WYSIWYG Editor and making my own "boxes" on a per-page , per-template , per-user option for editing their site - but I thought having something like the Editor from innovastudio.com would come in better, even the looks lol well, mostly the looks :D

So, yeah, I'm still taking notes of everything and will continue to jot down any other advice. Thanks! :)

AlEast · 10-12-2005, 05:54 PM

Yest that editor is very nice and that is the one we decided to go with for our online manual development tool, publishexec.com

Clean and rather inexpensive to boot.

clenard · 10-12-2005, 09:20 PM

That's a cool little tool you have there, Al. Was that just released? I actually just got the ClientExec thingy the other day lol I thought it was something to do with that -- but it's for developing HTML based Manuals, right?

Is it using PHP? Was it easy to implement?

Thanks for any info!

AlEast · 10-14-2005, 08:06 PM

Sure was. We use it at clientexec and some other people are starting to use to create their online manuals as well. Just a MUCH cheaper way to develop manuals then using something like robohelp, albeit not as feature rich.