wysiwyg widgets for article submission

[aspdaddy]

Hi, I am looking for a wysiwyg widget I can integrate into a website that will allow admin to post html articles to a custom database. Features needed include upload of images, defining the overall layout, basic formatting/styles without manually adding tags.

Can anyone recommend any tools that do this well for novice users? I do not mind paying for a good solution.

Thanks.

[eventus]

You can do alot of this with Joomla...

and it shouldn't be too expensive to have some offshore coder write something for you.

We've used a solution from All Headline News.. they don't sell it but have given it to their customers to use.. You may want to call them up and see if their publisher script is still available

[bill]

Just about any CMS/blog/portal package will allow that. You can try a lot of them out at the opensourceCMS site.

[aspdaddy]

Thanks but I dont want to use a full-blown CMS system, I just need a standalone widget to quickly add to an existing site.

[mattur]

I'd recommend Fck Editor for this. XStandard is the other main one.

You will probably have to lock down the functionality so that a novice user can't go crazy on formatting. The HTML code generated is reasonably good, and with a bit of training users should be able to use it quite happily.

[eventus]

Fck Editor will work but he'll need someone to write the database layer integration.

[aspdaddy]

These look very promising, thanks.

[aspdaddy]

Update.

Fck Editor worked really well. Its looks pro & my developer was able to impement it and add categories, keywords page numbers and other fields to the article submission.

The client loves the ease of use & flexibility and has created tons of content already. The way you insert an object and upload it to the server in a single task is nice, saves having to upload everything first. Also it detects you are pasting from word and can strip out the xml, very good.

Im not locking it down, this client needs to go a bit crazy with formatting - hes been constrained by run of the mill blog sw for too long and loves his new cms!

Thanks!

[ergophobe]

Thanks for taking the time to update us! It's always good to get a report after the deed is done.