Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
On 5/31/05, Leif Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FCKEditor http://www.fckeditor.net/ > > It rocks. > i'm currently working on a content management system designed for less-than-computer-saavy users that utilized fckeditor to create/edit content. i found it pretty easy to integrate (their documentation site helped quite a bit) and havent had any troubles. it just generates plain html (no special markup language like bbcode) but that just saves you the trouble of writing a parser. drew -- dc .. drewcore.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
> > Thanks guys, > > Yep, it certainly sounds like a PITA (pain in the ... ) project but the > > client is payingand so..the > client's right :-) > > out of interest (and maybe to spark new ideas) can you give specs? > what kind of user management system do you have to integrate with? (describe) Its kind of hard to explain the specs but to give you an idea...its real simple..no big bells and whistles. Its for a site very close to this one: http://www.snicksnack.nu so the functionality of the forum too will be pretty much like that (sites in Swedish) > end of the day a forum lives and dies on its content/dialogue. > everything else is gravy. :-) True, but this is one of the small parts of the site...the site has other major sections and this is just a minor section so not really that important. Cheers, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.1 - Release Date: 5/31/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
Ryan A wrote: Thanks guys, Yep, it certainly sounds like a PITA (pain in the ... ) project but the client is payingand so..the client's right :-) out of interest (and maybe to spark new ideas) can you give specs? what kind of user management system do you have to integrate with? (describe) end of the day a forum lives and dies on its content/dialogue. everything else is gravy. :-) The good thing is, I'll learn something here (hopefully), only think left to do is start going to the URLs you have mentioned and reading and downloading. Thanks again. Cheers, Ryan. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
Thanks guys, Yep, it certainly sounds like a PITA (pain in the ... ) project but the client is payingand so..the client's right :-) The good thing is, I'll learn something here (hopefully), only think left to do is start going to the URLs you have mentioned and reading and downloading. Thanks again. Cheers, Ryan. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.1 - Release Date: 5/31/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
Hello Ryan, Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 7:59:10 AM, you wrote: R> Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify or R> a tutorial for creating a forum or URLs/Classes etc to help me R> create a simple forum? ??? That's a hard question to answer. You could make it real bare bones and just display the entries in reverse order by date / time entered from the DB. R> I checked on google but I couldnt find any tutorials or code, went R> to hot-scripts and saw a _c r a p l o a d_ of forums (for free and R> otherwise) but I have a client who insists I build him a forum R> which must fall _exactly_ to his specifications and work of our R> currently registered users database. Again, without knowing what those specifications are, it's a hard question to answer. R> I will need a kind of "client editor" for when people write their R> messages into the forum, eg: make this bold and that italics and R> that centered and that with an image and so on FCKEditor http://www.fckeditor.net/ It rocks. -- Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 3.5.20 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
Ryan A wrote: Hey guys (and girl...as we have one on the list...(that i know of)), Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify or a tutorial for creating a forum or URLs/Classes etc to help me create a simple forum? I checked on google but I couldnt find any tutorials or code, went to hot-scripts and saw a _c r a p l o a d_ of forums (for free and otherwise) rather overwhelming isn't it. but I have a client who insists I build him a forum which must fall _exactly_ to his specifications and work of our currently registered users database. do you have a list of specifications? i.e. becareful you don't start chasing a moving target! sounds like taking a solid existing forum tool and hacking it so that it uses your own user DB is the way to go - purely from a feasability perspective. I'm sorry I can't really recommend one, I have experiencing doing a total hack job on phpbb which was successful but I don't really like the codebase so I wouldn't recommend it exactly! Worse scenario, I will dl a few of the forums from hotscrpts and go through each of their code...but I would like to avoid that if anyone can give me a better option. 2nd question I will need a kind of "client editor" for when people write their messages into the forum, eg: make this bold and that italics and that centered and that with an image and so on I had actually seen a (dhtml, I think) form some time back where you could preview your message at the side as you made changes...somewhat like what google has for their ad-cents accounts where you can change the colors of your ad and immediatly it shows the changes at the side in a box. I remember sometime back someone posting some WYSIWYG kind of editors which loads on the clients machine with just a textbox and the buttons to go bold, italics,centered etc unfortunatly looking into the archives i cant find it. try this: http://www.fckeditor.net/ its a job to integrate but works really well and the price is good :-) I have also had success with http://www.editize.com when i had the need to provide a WYSIWYG editor that had to run on a wide range of browsers and OSes - downside is it costs money, its also Java - and as many of you know running Java applets in a browser is not always fun or fast :-/ Thanks, Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
I don't know as much about forums today, as I did a few years ago, but AFAIK most GUI BBCode Editors are simple html wysiwyg tools, that convert to bbcode in the background. On 5/31/05, Ryan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys (and girl...as we have one on the list...(that i know of)), > > Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify > or > a tutorial for creating a forum > or > URLs/Classes etc to help me create a simple forum? > > I checked on google but I couldnt find any tutorials or code, went to > hot-scripts and saw a _c r a p l o a d_ of forums (for free and otherwise) > but I have a client who insists I build him a forum which must fall > _exactly_ > to his specifications and work of our currently registered users database. > > Worse scenario, I will dl a few of the forums from hotscrpts and go through > each of their code...but I would like to avoid that if anyone can give me a > better option. > > > > 2nd question > I will need a kind of "client editor" for when people write their messages > into the forum, > eg: make this bold and that italics and that centered and that with an image > and so on > I had actually seen a (dhtml, I think) form some time back where you could > preview your > message at the side as you made changes...somewhat like what google has for > their > ad-cents accounts where you can change the colors of your ad and immediatly > it shows the > changes at the side in a box. > I remember sometime back someone posting some WYSIWYG kind of editors which > loads > on the clients machine with just a textbox and the buttons to go bold, > italics,centered etc > unfortunatly looking into the archives i cant find it. > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 5/30/2005 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
On 5/31/05, Ryan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify I don't know what you mean by "bare bones" exactly (how stripped down are you looking for?) but here are three fairly small forum systems you might want to have a look at: punBB - http://www.punbb.org/ (used it myself in the past, very nice and slimmed down) miniBB - http://www.minibb.net (powers the Textpattern forums) bbPress - http://bbpress.org/ (powers the Wordpress forums, not really stable yet as far as I can tell but looks promising) Obviously you might have to put in a bit of work to make them authenticate against a different database structure, shouldn't be too difficult though. > a tutorial for creating a forum It would be quite difficult to write one of those to be honest, there's an awful lot you need to take into account for even the smallest of forums, unless you want something *very* simple like WWWBoard (http://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html - written in Perl though). > I will need a kind of "client editor" for when people write their messages > into the forum, > eg: make this bold and that italics and that centered and that with an image > and so on > I had actually seen a (dhtml, I think) form some time back where you could > preview your > message at the side as you made changes...somewhat like what google has for > their > ad-cents accounts where you can change the colors of your ad and immediatly > it shows the > changes at the side in a box. Have a look at the code for the larger bulletin board systems - phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) has this feature and it's open source (I would recommend vBulletin as well but it's proprietory unfortunately). I imagine someone out there has probably written a standalone module for it too - try searching for "bb code wysiwyg" on Google or something like that. Hope this helps. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
Hey guys (and girl...as we have one on the list...(that i know of)), Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify or a tutorial for creating a forum or URLs/Classes etc to help me create a simple forum? I checked on google but I couldnt find any tutorials or code, went to hot-scripts and saw a _c r a p l o a d_ of forums (for free and otherwise) but I have a client who insists I build him a forum which must fall _exactly_ to his specifications and work of our currently registered users database. Worse scenario, I will dl a few of the forums from hotscrpts and go through each of their code...but I would like to avoid that if anyone can give me a better option. 2nd question I will need a kind of "client editor" for when people write their messages into the forum, eg: make this bold and that italics and that centered and that with an image and so on I had actually seen a (dhtml, I think) form some time back where you could preview your message at the side as you made changes...somewhat like what google has for their ad-cents accounts where you can change the colors of your ad and immediatly it shows the changes at the side in a box. I remember sometime back someone posting some WYSIWYG kind of editors which loads on the clients machine with just a textbox and the buttons to go bold, italics,centered etc unfortunatly looking into the archives i cant find it. Thanks, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 5/30/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
