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editing the content of an existing page

Sun, 10/30/2005 - 11:39

radioleft

Joined: 16/09/2005

Posts: 3

editing the content of an existing page

I'm sure that fckeditor can do this, but, I don't know what to call it so that I can find out how to do it.

Take a look at this page:

http://www.davidbulova.com

Now, if you click in the main part of the page (for example, the text near the candidate's picture) and then do a ctrl+Y (control key and Y key simultaneously, a login page will appear. If you were to put in the userid and password, a text editor that allows you to edit this section of the page opens. You can modify this section of the page right here.

Also, if you put the cursor in the box on the left and do a control y, you can edit this section of the page.

What is this type of editing called?

Can fcketitor do it?

If so, can you get me started?

Thanks

Thu, 10/20/2005 - 09:51

imtheyo

Joined: 20/10/2005

Posts: 2

RE: editing the content of an existing page

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.

Hope this helps :- )

Thu, 10/20/2005 - 10:34

radioleft

Joined: 16/09/2005

Posts: 3

RE: editing the content of an existing page

You are partially correct.

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:

Thu, 10/20/2005 - 09:09

radioleft

Joined: 16/09/2005

Posts: 3

RE: editing the content of an existing page

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?

radioleft

Sun, 10/30/2005 - 01:05

ljvd

Joined: 30/10/2005

Posts: 1

RE: editing the content of an existing page

i'm interested by the same fonction.
just for changing some content without using a full cms application. my server accept cgi and php ...

Sun, 10/30/2005 - 11:39

redremedy

Joined: 28/10/2005

Posts: 15

RE: editing the content of an existing page

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.