Question

I am looking for an simple online text editor that will load an online file (CSS) and allow a user to make changes then save the file to their desktop. Syntax highlighting would be nice, but not necessary.

I found Edit Pad which would be ideal, except I need to be able to load the content into it. Most of the users I help need step-by-step instructions and would be making minimal changes to the css like colors and image urls. Having an editor like this would make it easier for me to help them (some have edited their css files and saved it as a rtf).

Edit: I have a site (php & jQuery) that I could host a program – something like CKEditor (but I don’t see a “save file to desktop” option).

Answer 1

You can write a small PHP script that grabs a URL’s contents and posts it to a pastebin and then redirects you there.
This script posts to http://pastebin.com/

<?php
  /* Get the contents of the url in the query */
  $url = $_GET['url'];
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  echo curl_error($ch);
  $content = curl_exec($ch);      
  curl_close($ch);

  /* Create a Pastebin from the contents */
  $action = 'http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php';
  $postdata = array(
    'format' => 'text',
    'paste' => 'Send',
    'code2' => urlencode($content)
  );
  foreach($postdata as $key=>$value) {
    $postdata_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&';
  }
  rtrim($postdata_string,'&');

  $ch = curl_init($action);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata_string);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_exec($ch);

  // *** Redirect to Pastebin ***
  header("Location: ".curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL));

  /*
    Make sure that any code below
    does not get executed when we redirect.
  */
  exit;
?>