Basically I need a RTF text box where you can edit the font, color of text, bold italics, etc. etc. that I can input in a form and the data can be sent to a PHP file, where it can there be interpreted into HTML to make the text edits previously mentioned or it can simply be sent in HTML from the textbox itself. I cannot find such a textbox online and despite my wide knowledge of PHP I only know enough JavaScript to do basic things on my website. Anyone know of a good one I could use? Or where I could pay someone to make one?
Check out CKEditor (http://ckeditor.com). I've been using it for a bit now, and it seems to work really well. It's very easy to integrate into existing sites, and is highly configurable. I think that out of the box it will send the form data in HTML format, but you can have it send plain text as well, if you want to process it yourself with PHP code. FWIW, I just let ckeditor build the html for me, then just send that to the db. Works pretty good, and coding time was kept to a minimum