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Apr 08.2005

Hi

I have a question about website editors that are online (ex. fortunecity, yahoo, lycos etc.) many hosting companies have like an editor that comes with your hosting/domain package.

What I was wanting to know is how these programs are written (languages etc.) or if anyone could point me in the direction of how these are developed. I am interested in learning how it is done for my own purposes. I just cannot get through my head how it is exactly done. I know its server side.

Does anyone know of an open source one where you can see some code?
Thanks

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@buntineApr 09.2005 — Its fairly easy. You just neeed to provide a slightly-rich text editor for the user to enter his/her markup. Each language offers some type of file-handling functionality to create, edit and delete files/directories.

For example, user writes a small amount of HTML code into the form, clicks "save", the program goes off to the server, creates a blank HTML file, and then populates it with the user input.

To edit a file, open the previously created HTML file, grab its content and print it to the output within the HTML form.

Regards.
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