On Sunday 16 May 2004 21:31, Ewan wrote: > Colin McKinnon wrote: > > The subject says it all really - I want to be able to edit some text > > (code actually) from a browser and post the data back to the server. I > > guess this is the kind of thing which Java should be good for but typing > > 'Java code editor applet' into Google turns up a LOT of noise (mostly > > tools for editing java applets - not java applets for editing text). > > > > There are no end of WYSIWYG editors (actually most of them are buttons > > stuck in front of the editor buit-in to Microsoft's IE) but I really want > > to edit PHP and javascript. > > > > I did find netedit which is little more than a textarea with buttons on > > (http://www.chipsoftinc.com/products/netEdit/). ViD looked promising > > (http://www.oursland.net/vid/) but I don't get the cursor in the right > > place in any of the browsers I've tried. > > You can use php to read a file and drop it into a textarea for you to > edit. You can then use POST to submit it to a php script which can write > the textarea back into the file. > > http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php > http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php > Thanks, but: > > I did find netedit which is little more than a textarea with buttons on
Problem is that a lot of things are quite difficult to do with a textarea field using (portable) javascript - like moving the caret. There also seems to be a limit of 1024 chars per (basic) element when posting from Konqueror (files are uploaded at any size I've tested). Mozilla also truncates the contents of a hidden field to 1k - never tried with a textarea field. C. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish