how to use text editor and link it with database
Just a reminder to avoid any confusion: What http://docs.moodle.org/en/Text_editor calls a "text editor" is in fact a WYSIWYG editor. For details, see the discussion 'What is a "text editor'https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=226174. Yes, there is a special forum called "Text editors", https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1035.
Ben
Glad that you received my morning post in time. It was noon here, as I posted.
Yes, these key words get planted in all sorts of places. There is for example a forum of the same name, then a Moodle Doc, then there is a drop-down box in one's profile, which gets translted to a large number of languages, etc. Randomly changing _one_, without warning BTW, creates contradictions. The ensuing chain reaction creates uncertainity and, if nothing else, the reason given, "To them , Moodle's TinyMCE editor IS a text editor", is downright infantilizing.
Glad that you received my morning post in time. It was noon here, as I posted.
Yes, these key words get planted in all sorts of places. There is for example a forum of the same name, then a Moodle Doc, then there is a drop-down box in one's profile, which gets translted to a large number of languages, etc. Randomly changing _one_, without warning BTW, creates contradictions. The ensuing chain reaction creates uncertainity and, if nothing else, the reason given, "To them , Moodle's TinyMCE editor IS a text editor", is downright infantilizing.
Oh, please! Don't invent terms, when there are well-established ones:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
No point in spending more time on this. If you start a doc page with, "The text editor (sometimes referred to as the 'HTML editor' has many icons to assist the user in entering content." where can you go?
Edit: During Moodle 1 days it was called the HTML Editor, see https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/HTML_editor and the Text editors forum was called the "HTML editor forum" https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/HTML_editor_FAQ (link at the bottom). The "Text editor" is an invention for Moodle 2.0, see https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/index.php?title=Text_editor&oldid=77295. But the forum was called "HTML editor" much longer. Only recently it has become "Text editors". Probably together with the second xxxx editor Atto.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
No point in spending more time on this. If you start a doc page with, "The text editor (sometimes referred to as the 'HTML editor' has many icons to assist the user in entering content." where can you go?
Edit: During Moodle 1 days it was called the HTML Editor, see https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/HTML_editor and the Text editors forum was called the "HTML editor forum" https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/HTML_editor_FAQ (link at the bottom). The "Text editor" is an invention for Moodle 2.0, see https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/index.php?title=Text_editor&oldid=77295. But the forum was called "HTML editor" much longer. Only recently it has become "Text editors". Probably together with the second xxxx editor Atto.
There is nothing wrong with WYSIWIG HTML editors also having a HTML mode. The problem we are discussing is that the Moodle "text editor" https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Text_editor is not a text editor!
"The text editor (sometimes referred to as the 'HTML editor' has many icons to assist the user in entering content."
https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Text_editor#Using_a_text_editor
https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Text_editor#Using_a_text_editor
https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Text_editor#Using_a_text_editor
Could somebody kindly close the parenthesis?
https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Text_editor#Using_a_text_editor
https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Text_editor#Using_a_text_editor
https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Text_editor#Using_a_text_editor
Could somebody kindly close the parenthesis?
OK Mary- Just for you: https://docs.moodle.org/26/en/index.php?title=Text_editor&diff=113560&oldid=113559.
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