Post system - Tips

Question

Hello, I’m looking to create a blog system for my site and I have an initial idea of how to do it, very basic.

In basic, I would have one that will send the text of a <textarea> to the database, together with the author, date, etc..

In the textarea I noticed that it is possible for the user to put html tags (<div>, <p>..) then I will use php htmlentities to prevent the user from using such tags and end up damaging the site layout (it is normal this?).

With this, I would like to know how to implement options such as leaving text in bold, placing an image, a url, etc.. I’d just like a few tips on how to implement this...

The one of the url has some sites that in the post it shows a preview of the site and tals..

Answer 1

Hello, you can use plugins that "mount" an editor for you. I recommend the Ckeditor (http://ckeditor.com/), take care to treat the value that the Ckeditor textarea will return, because it allows you to edit a post visually but returns an HTML. There are several others as well, such as, Tinymce and Froala.