Hi,
I have spent most of yesterday and today looking for a file manager with a wysiwyg. The nearest thing I could find to what I want is Simple File Manager, but it has no wysiwyg and it looks like it is an unfinished project. The user layout though is nice and simple, just what I was looking for.
Other than that, I found phpletter, which uses fckeditor, but the installation instructions were so vague and even after following them, the url it tells you to go to at the end doesn't even exist.
I am an amature at building websites and I know a little bit of basic php. What I am looking for is a file manager that I can upload & install for a website I am making for my sister's beauty salon so that she can login and edit things like pricelists, opening times and special offers info herself.
I want to make headers & footers in php, then simply include a html file in the midde of the pages and that is what she can edit with the wysiwyg.
Is there anything like this around that uses with ckeditor?
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 13:49
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Re: Is there a file manager that uses CKeditor?
I think you're getting a bit confused... Simple File Manger DOES allow you to edit files remotely, without using FTP, but I doubt your sister will know enought to get the job done. I think the product you're looking for is actually CKEditor.
I suggest you create your pages in PHP (header, footers and the content in the middle. Pull your content for each page from a database - add an edit link next to the content which will only be visible when a user is logged in (you'll need a simple login page to authenticate admins). This link will link to an editor page containing a CKEditor instance and will use the page ID in the link to access the page content and load it into CKEditor. When its edited, submit the form to itself and stuff the edited content back into the database. Return to the page and pull the new content out and display it.
Forgive me if I've got the wrong end of the stick, but I think this is where you need to be. If all of this sounds a bit daunting, I suggest you create static pages and wander over to http://www.editwrx.com and have a look at their product for $29
Re: Is there a file manager that uses CKeditor?
Thanks for that, the wrx looks very good. I do actually want her to be able to edit files remotely without ftp, that's actually the pont of what I'm trying to do. A place where she can just login, select the html file, click edit and have it open up in the wysiwyg. She can then edit and save.
Then, when she goes onto her site, that html file is the middle section of the php page I have made.
Intershpere do a file manager that does exactly this, but it does a ton of other stuff that I don't need and its very expensive. Having said that, I've seen it in use on someone elses site, jut stripped down like this and that's what gave me the idea to do her pages like this, because a monkey could it.