By beatybeaty on

Is there a way to edit Drupal content (Pages, Stories, etc) in an external editor like BBEdit or Dreamweaver or EditPlus?

I imagine that there would have to be some sort of conversion from the file you are editing to the database...

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

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dgorton commented

Are you talking about page contents? If so - copy + paste will do...

You might want to try something like tinymce editor (http://drupal.org/project/tinymce) if you're just trying to make HTML editing easier, though.

Drew Gorton
Gorton Studios

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beatybeaty commented

Well, ideally I was talking about the ability to use an external editor instead of a rich text editor. TinyMCE is ok (doesn't work well on Safari) and I recently found http://www.fckeditor.net/ which has better CSS support, and there is even http://editor.asbrusoft.com/webeditor/index.manager.jsp if you are willing to pay a fee.

I guess when content is stored in a database it is hard to access that content as a file on a filesystem, as that will involve some sort of conversion form DB to file and vice versa...

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dgorton commented

Essentially, you'll be moving away from editing text and/or files and moving towards managing data. You'll no longer be opening Dreamweaver to edit a page - rather, you'll log in, navigate to the page you want to change and click 'edit'. Just a different workflow.

Drew Gorton
Gorton Studios