Our PHP WYSIWYG Control Is Ready :)

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Hey Guys,

As 90% of you know, we're hardcore PHP fans. We've taken our 3 years of experience with PHP and developed a replacement for the HTML <textbox> tag. Yes, yes, I know that I wrote two articles on how to do this yourself, however our custom PHP class/control has the following features to boot:

- Its own programmatic PHP API to manipulate the control
- Easy setup: 3 lines of code to "drop it in" your page
- Hide all buttons and lists, etc
- Popup table generator
- Define and use your own custom inserts with the API
- Built-in image uploading features, etc

Well, you get the idea. The main reason we developed this control was because, put frankly, there isn't anything like it on the market.

It is called EditWorks Professional.PHP (Yes, we also do a .NET version called EditWorks Professional.Net) and it's $39.95 per licence. It includes FULL source code, easy to use documentation and the guarantee by the entire devArticles.com team that it will help you as a developer by saving you time and giving you an awesome tool to add functionality to your clients/your own web site(s).

We've setup the online demo showing two versions: the default version with some custom inserts, and a customized version with custom width+height attributes as well as some hidden buttons. Checkout http://www.tools2code.com/editworkspro_php to try the demo and also to see the code samples that we've posted to prove how easy it is to use.

We want your feedback on the control too guys, so please do check it out and reply to this thread to let us know what you think, etc

Looking good. That's all I have to say ..I think

Please forgive my bad english.

I work in a company which users are for 80% of them Mac users.
Well, we know the problems that affects IE5 Mac.
Your PHP control only works with IE and probably works properly only on PC platform.

Will you work later on a java version in order to be cross-platform ?
Something like RealObjects edit-on Pro but not so expensive.

Regards

I just bought it and have high hopes. The documentation does not, however, include info about how I insert default content into the textarea!?!?!? How do I, please e-mail me!

Hey Axbom,
You should receive an email from us shortly. You downloaded the beta version hehe. Just follow the link in the email to the full, documented version that shows you how to insert code with the SetValue() function

Not only doesn't it work in IE on the mac., it also doesn't work in mozilla and opera. Not to mention all the browsers on linux. This is because the editor uses microsoft javascript. It is totally not w3c compliant.

Currently there are no w3c standards wich could be used in an online editor.

Best "online editor" i have seen sofar is xopus. It is not an editor which uses a textarea to edit html. It is an editor to edit xml in a visual form. The xml is displayed in the browser using the appropriate xsl stylestheet. You can edit the visual display. For example when you add an xml tag it will be displayed in the browser, but underneath in the editor an xml element will be added to the document. This way the user doesn't have to know about xml and still the developers of the site have all artivles available in xml format.

There is currently a demo version online which only works in IE 5.5+.
But they are developing version 2 allready wich will also work in mozilla. They have developed a contenteditable feature for mozilla (its not supported by default by mozilla, but it will be in a future version). See a content editable demo here.

As http://www.tools2code.com/editworkspro and http://www.tools2code.com/editworkspro_php clearly state, EditWorks only works on Internet Explorer v5.0+ on a Windows PC and was designed as a replacement for textboxes in content management systems.

It is a shame that other browsers don't support the advanced WYSIWYG functionality of IE5, however when/if they do in the future, we will be there and ready to make new version of our software to work with those versions.