I am currently working on a codeigniter project, now i want a option “Blog” where user can post and comment. A post can contain images , tables, different fonts, similar case is for comments . I am novice in webdevelopment, only know php and it’s one framework. Would you please anyone suggest me,what should i do ?
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After this post i got some good advice and i took decision to use rich text editor tiny_mce but my bad luck that again i am having problem . I can’t include the tiny_mce or after including it’s not working . I worked how they instructed but no change normal textarea is coming . What should i do?
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script src="<?php echo base_url("js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"); ?>" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script src="<?php echo base_url("js/scripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"); ?>" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
tinyMCE.init({
// General options
mode : "textareas",
theme : "advanced",
plugins : "pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template,wordcount,advlist,autosave",
// Theme options
theme_advanced_buttons1 : "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect",
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor",
theme_advanced_buttons3 : "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
theme_advanced_buttons4 : "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,pagebreak,restoredraft",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
theme_advanced_resizing : true,
// Example content CSS (should be your site CSS)
// content_css : "css/content.css",
// Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs
template_external_list_url : "lists/template_list.js",
external_link_list_url : "lists/link_list.js",
external_image_list_url : "lists/image_list.js",
media_external_list_url : "lists/media_list.js",
// Style formats
style_formats : [
{title : 'Bold text', inline : 'b'},
{title : 'Red text', inline : 'span', styles : {color : '#ff0000'}},
{title : 'Red header', block : 'h1', styles : {color : '#ff0000'}},
{title : 'Example 1', inline : 'span', classes : 'example1'},
{title : 'Example 2', inline : 'span', classes : 'example2'},
{title : 'Table styles'},
{title : 'Table row 1', selector : 'tr', classes : 'tablerow1'}
],
formats : {
alignleft : {selector : 'p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,td,th,div,ul,ol,li,table,img', classes : 'left'},
aligncenter : {selector : 'p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,td,th,div,ul,ol,li,table,img', classes : 'center'},
alignright : {selector : 'p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,td,th,div,ul,ol,li,table,img', classes : 'right'},
alignfull : {selector : 'p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,td,th,div,ul,ol,li,table,img', classes : 'full'},
bold : {inline : 'span', 'classes' : 'bold'},
italic : {inline : 'span', 'classes' : 'italic'},
underline : {inline : 'span', 'classes' : 'underline', exact : true},
strikethrough : {inline : 'del'}
},
// Replace values for the template plugin
template_replace_values : {
username : "Some User",
staffid : "991234"
}
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="somepage">
<div>
<div>
<textarea id="elm1" name="elm1" rows="15" cols="80" style="width: 80%"></textarea>
</div>
<br />
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Here is a basic blog tutorial and also check this one but you can use WordPress for blog with codeigniter and here is an answer on so about integrating WordPress with codeigniter.
About WordPress.
Hope it helps.