Posted by Craig Storey on 04/12/06 20:36

I recently tested a few different ones and here are my thoughts...

1. xinha: Best. Faster, better default config, simple install.
http://xinha.python-hosting.com/

2. TinyMCE: Looks good too, but too many pop-ups for me. I like the
image manager. Pasting from Word isn't automatic.

3. FCKeditor: Another good one, but seems prone to problems with
plug-ins. After awhile I made a few work, but others I couldn't
configure properly and not enuogh info.

4. htmlarea: This is an ancester of xhina, has a few drawbacks.

5. widgEditor Too simple, not worth implementing for editing purposes.

Hope this helps.
Craig

firewood@ironwork.com wrote:
> I am developing a form-based website development system using PHP5,
> and I want to incorporate a secure, reliable, Wysiwyg textarea script
> in place of the standard, unformatable, text-only textarea one gets
> with a <textarea> tag. All I need are basic formatting tools - bold,
> italics, underline, lists, tables.
>
> I've looked into a few already with spotty results:
> SPAW - is buggy with PHP5.
>
> Textarearich - is awkward to configure, and I'm not confident that
> the script is secure or reliable.
>
> jxhtmledit - a java applet with very unclear installation and
> configuration documentation.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good one?

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