edit-forms....or whatever they call them.....

[tchatzi]

Hello everyone,

Everybody knows these little edit forms on forums, the ones you go to post a new thread.

You know the ones where you type your text, you choose colors, fonts (from a list box), bold, italic, and you are also able to put some html tags, or custom tags.

I know, they make them with javascript (which i hate)....or php....(which is fine, but it is php...)

Does anyone knows how they call them?

I want to write one in perl, but if there is one already written,
i wouldn't bother writting one myself from the begining (i don't have that much spare time)....
unless there is no other way....

Thanks for your time...


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[icrf]

Well, obviously, if you're talking about one that has buttons and inserts the code for you, that's running client-side, so you only have a JavaScript option for that. Server side is just a simple question of parsing and reformating output.

I guess I'm not very sure about what you're asking. Here is a directory of (mostly commercial) versions of what you described. Looks like development has died, but there's the original HtmlEdit on Sourceforge, a JS implementation.

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Andrew

 

[tchatzi]

Thanks icrf for the directory link, that is what i needed.
I wonder why nobody try to build one written in perl!


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he poses the right questions.''
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[icrf]

I'm not sure I understand how these things work, what would the perl code do? Generate the form and attach the javascript code? Sounds relatively simple.

Or are you talking about something completely local, like a Perl/Tk app? I recall some widgets existing for highlighting code that are probably extensible enough.

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Andrew

 

[tchatzi]

I'm thinking of making on in perl and html.
No Javascript, not even one line.
I'm thinking mod_perl and Apache::ASP.
But i'm open to any sugestions, and any clues.


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he poses the right questions.''
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[MikeLacey]

Hi perluserpengo,

If you want to write this in Perl then Perl will need to be installed on each PC, each client, that runs it. Typically you can't rely on that as most ordinary users won't have Perl installed; that's why these things are written in Javascripts.

Mike

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