EditTag

How it works: You place tags like <EDITTAG>content</EDITTAG> in your HTML layout. These tags are recognized by the EditTag content editing script, and NOT recognized by browsers. This means that you (or your clients) can edit selected text on live pages using a web-based interactive tool, and that edited text is immediately visible to people surfing the web. (OK, you have to save it first :-))

The script can also be used to allow prospective page authors to customize a template page and have it published and available immediately, or placed in a private location for later review by site managers.

Background and notices: EditTag provides a WYSIWYG-style file editing (non-edited content appears on the edit screen as well, providing the author with a more contextualized view of the document and its editable areas). It also features customizable fill-out forms and a secure passwording and security model. It also has a "quiet" mode so editing controls can more happily co-exist with other page form content.

Are you looking for a full-featured solution for implementing and managing database-backed websites? You might be interested in another project I have: Terra Cotta.

EditTag Features

• HTML-style tags delimit editable areas in any web document.
• Editable types are lines, paragraphs, and other tag attributes (such as FONT or TABLE parameters)
• Configurable as distributed authorship tool or as a template-input system.
• Security model allows for unique passwords for diffeent files/users, and configurability with private directories to store submitted content for review.

EditTag Demo and Documentation

• EditTag Demo - Try it out! [test password is "pwd"]
• EditTag Documentation - Complete package documentation.

To request a supported version, please email Greg. If you would like to download the scripts themselves, the links to do so are available here:

• edittag
• mkpw
• parsescript

A version of the software which will work with mod_perl is also available:

• edittag
• mkpw
• parsescript

Derek MacEwen has sent me a version of EditTag that works with IE5.5 to provide WYSIWYG editing in field edits. If you use IE5.5, you might want to try this script (it is a drop-in replacement modulo the configuration for the edittag.pl file). Basically, this control allows you to easily make HTML content (or allow your users to make HTML content) without knowing all the HTML tags.

• edittag wysiwyg for IE5.5
• Download the HTMLArea control to make the WYSIWYG editor work.

Accompanying files (you can Right-Click-Save these):

• htaccess.sample
• htpasswd.sample
• edittag.html
• edittag.txt
• sample-index.html
• test.html
• weather.html
• testsimple.html

Get all the above files in a zipped tar file:

• edittag.tar.gz