editing text with php

[rafaes18]

I am writing a content editor and I would like to have a facility like the one used in php-forum to allow users to customize the text, this is seting some text to bold adding a url etc. Is it possible to do this from php or You need to use Java.
thanks

[Jay]

You'll get yourself into something long, hard and complicated. The simplest way is just to get them to use [] tags, and search for specific tags and convert them into the html equivilent. You can then progress from there once you build up your skill

[rafaes18]

I more or less can gather the whole process with the exception of how to highlight a piece of text and by clicking on a button to get the [] automatically inserted.
Is this done using php?
is there any tutorial showing how to do this?
thanks

[Jay]

I more or less can gather the whole process with the exception of how to highlight a piece of text and by clicking on a button to get the [] automatically inserted.
Is this done using php?
is there any tutorial showing how to do this?
thanks

That's easily done with Javascript. You'll need to define a function for it first, so it knows which state it's in. Then when you click on it, it'll add the appropriate tag to the box (something like form.message += '[b]';) depending on it's state (you either want to open or close the tags)

[rafaes18]

Can you direct me to a sample code or explain me a bit more how to do this thing of the states. I fell I am touching the solution but still I can't quite sort this last problem.
Thanks for the time and the spirit.
rafa

[Jay]

I'm not going to do it for you, but I'll put you on the path!

Find a page which has the function that you require. In IE go to File, Save As, and choose the document type as a Web Archive (mht). This will save EVERYTHING into a single MIME file (when I mean everything, I mean pictures, external scripts, CSS, EVERYTHING).

Now that you have this one file containing everything, open it up in a web editor (not IE, because it'll display it normally, and you want the hidden code behind the scenes) and you'll see a series of files delimited by a special string (something like 654s6ad54s6d21sd - it'll be a garbage string). Anyway, each one of those chunks represents some information, like a picture or script. What you want to do is find the javascript function that's being run by looking at the code for the button you click on to activate the function, find the function elsewhere in the script (it'll all there), and then decipher it!

[rafaes18]

Hi Jay
Against all the odds I have managed to dechypher the thing and I have almost get it working.
thank you

rafa

[Jay]

Np