The short answer is yes, FCKeditor can do this. However, for the best results, you need to be familiar with dynamic websites (using PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, CFM, JSP, etc.). You can directly edit an HTML page and physically write it back to the server, but is not recommended.
You can use the querystring (as they do on the website you mentioned) to pass a pageID or some other id to the page doing the editing (where FCKeditor is), grab the text from a DB, and populate FCKeditor.
Once you are finished editing, you save the text into the DB, and send the client back to the page they were on in the site (again, using the id you have been passing in the querystring).
Sounds complicated, but is really very simple once you've done it.
The owner of the website listed above has gotten five or six emails from people wanting to know how the page edit setup was accomplished. It is done with a tool that costs $60.00 per domain.
That is why I am looking for another solution.
So, again:
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR FCKEDIT TO BE USED TO UPDATE AN EXISTING PAGE AND SAVE IT BACK IN PLACE?
I WILL TAKE THE TIME TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT IF I KNOW THAT IT CAN BE DONE.
BUT, AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO IT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL.
IF THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT FCKEDIT CAN DO, IS THERE ANOTHER TOOL THAT WILL DO IT?
I think "imtheyo" gave you the answer allready. But I will try to explain it to you in another way.
This has actually nothing to do with FCKEditor. It is all about the server side programming. The website you are reffering to have done some PHP-coding to load the current web page into their WYSIWYG-editor, and when they save the contents they use some more PHP-coding to rewrite the page on the server.
So this isnt really an FCKEdit question. FCKEdit can only do one thing, and that is to edit HTML.
My suggestion; go visit a PHP or ASP forum and ask for help.
RE: editing the content of an existing page
You can use the querystring (as they do on the website you mentioned) to pass a pageID or some other id to the page doing the editing (where FCKeditor is), grab the text from a DB, and populate FCKeditor.
Once you are finished editing, you save the text into the DB, and send the client back to the page they were on in the site (again, using the id you have been passing in the querystring).
Sounds complicated, but is really very simple once you've done it.
Hope this helps :- )
RE: editing the content of an existing page
They are doing something slightly different:
They have defined all pages as php.
Then they define a section of the page by using a php include sort of like this:
RE: editing the content of an existing page
That is why I am looking for another solution.
So, again:
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR FCKEDIT TO BE USED TO UPDATE AN EXISTING PAGE AND SAVE IT BACK IN PLACE?
I WILL TAKE THE TIME TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT IF I KNOW THAT IT CAN BE DONE.
BUT, AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO IT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL.
IF THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT FCKEDIT CAN DO, IS THERE ANOTHER TOOL THAT WILL DO IT?
radioleft
RE: editing the content of an existing page
just for changing some content without using a full cms application. my server accept cgi and php ...
RE: editing the content of an existing page
This has actually nothing to do with FCKEditor. It is all about the server side programming. The website you are reffering to have done some PHP-coding to load the current web page into their WYSIWYG-editor, and when they save the contents they use some more PHP-coding to rewrite the page on the server.
So this isnt really an FCKEdit question. FCKEdit can only do one thing, and that is to edit HTML.
My suggestion; go visit a PHP or ASP forum and ask for help.