It's amazing what's possible with the internet with some creative thought.  One of the greatest pieces of online code that I have run across is the FCK editor.  The FCK editor is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor for HTML.  It much of the functionality that basic Microsoft Word has and even has some pretty cool conversion from MS Word functionality complete with its own "Paste from Word" function.

The FCK Editor is ideal for editing product descriptions in the admin of osCommerce.  You can find the contrib to integrate the FCK Editor into osCommerce here.  One really nice feature is the ability to create templates.  So if you have a standard way you want your products description layed out each time, you can create a template to speed up the process and help maintain consistancy.

I have been using the FCK Editor in quite a few of my projects because it's open source LGPL code that is really amazing.  I also love the fact that it formats the code to valid XHTML.  When you have clients trying to maintain a site, it's great to give them a tool that's not only easy to use, but also forces them to enter valid markup.

The FCK Editor comes with many different languages for the backend including PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Java, Perl and ColdFusion.  You simply need to change the connector to use it with your language of choice.  Since the front end of the editor is pure HTML and JavaScript, it works pretty universally.  Plus it seems to be compatiable across the browsers, at least the modern browsers.

I have recently discovered there are quite a few plugins out there for it, and several of those plugins are extreamly useful.  It is always wonderful to find code that someone else has written that you can use.