Create my own HTML editor

save message + predefined tags.

when displaying, you could dump the message into a string, , Parse it
for your pre-defined tags and str_replace them with HTML tags.

You preserve the original tags that way and retain control

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pprince wrote:
> save message + predefined tags.
> when displaying, you could dump the message into a string, , Parse it
> for your pre-defined tags and str_replace them with HTML tags.
> You preserve the original tags that way and retain control

Hmmmm, not sure if this is what I want. It requires the user to type some
kind of code in the text isn't it?
What I have in mind is something like MSWord or a WYSIWYG editor like FP:
Highlight a piece of text and press a button to apply a start - and end tag
for a H1-heading etc
Thanks anyway!
Nico

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> says...
> > pprince wrote:
> > > save message + predefined tags.
> > > when displaying, you could dump the message into a string, , Parse it
> > > for your pre-defined tags and str_replace them with HTML tags.
> > > You preserve the original tags that way and retain control
> >
> > Hmmmm, not sure if this is what I want. It requires the user to type
some
> > kind of code in the text isn't it?
> > What I have in mind is something like MSWord or a WYSIWYG editor like
FP:
> > Highlight a piece of text and press a button to apply a start - and end
tag
> > for a H1-heading etc
>
> Most of the BB systems have this functionality.
> I know Invisionboard has it and its source is free.
>

You can't do this on the server side, you have to do the inserting of the
tag-placeholders on the client side so if you can do it with javascript you
are on the good way. Use PHP to replace the placeholders on display as
mentioned before in this thread.

Invisionboard does exactly this: Inserts placeholders for tags with
javascript and uses the PHP class mentioned by Nico Schuyt to replace the
placeholders with the HTML.

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